Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State

[Jcrowley]

Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State

by Mike Whitney

"On June 29, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much pressure from Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Roehm should die. At first Hitler insisted that Roehm should be allowed to commit suicide but, when he refused, Roehm was shot by two SS men. (Spartacus.schoolnet.co)

Later, Hitler delivered a speech at the Reichstag in which he justified the murders of his rivals saying:
"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people. It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

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Operation Falcon: Blueprint for removing dissidents and political rivals

The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public.

Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment’s notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin.

Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. But its roots go much deeper into the nexus of right-wing Washington think tanks where fantasies of autocratic government have a long history. The name, Falcon, is an acronym for “Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.” It relates to the more than 960 state, local and federal agencies which are directly involved in the administration’s expansive criminal dragnets.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5763

[stillcool]

1. e-gads...

that's one chilling article....brrrrr

Operation FALCON II was another massive dragnet which covered the western half of the country and focused primarily on “violent sex offenders”. The raids took place from April 17-23, and succeeded in apprehending 9,037 alleged fugitives. The US Marshals web site boasts that the operation “took some of the country's most dangerous wanted criminals off the streets and made America's communities safer”.

Nonsense. Despite the claims of success, only 462 “violent sex crime” suspects were arrested, along with 1,094 “unregistered sex offenders” and other minor “sex crime” suspects. That leaves 7,481 suspects who were rounded up for other unrelated reasons.

Who are they and what crime did they commit? Were these drug violations, dads who were delinquent on child-support payments, traffic tickets, jay-walking?!?

7,481 people who were incarcerated are unaccounted by the government’s estimate. This means that the bulk of them were probably undocumented workers who were shunted off to the INS (Immigration and Naturalization) or dispatched to Cheney’s tent-city gulags in western Texas. (See: Democracy Now “Human Rights Groups Call for Closure of Texas Jail Holding Undocumented Immigrants” 2-23-07)

In fact, the American Enterprise Institute, to which the Bush team is closely aligned, has already "issued proposals for the operation of Congress following a catastrophic terrorist attack". They advocate the "APPOINTING" of individuals to the House of Representatives "to fill the seats of dead or incapacitated members, a first in American history" "The Continuity of Government Commission is self-commissioned', its members being neither elected nor appointed by any government body and mostly made up of professional lobbyists". (Read the whole article: http://www.conservativeusa.org/cog-ronpaul.htm) (Coincidentally, Newsweek article “White House Rehearses for Domestic Attack” 2-23-07; “The White House is staging a high-level exercise Saturday to test responses to the prospect of a massive domestic terrorist attack.” These drills are a critical part of the C.O.G. regimen dating back to the Reagan administration)

[meldroc]

2. This is scary.

I read this a few days ago, and that's another brick in the wall for me with regards to this government. Absolutely deaf to the wishes of the public, increasingly paranoid and vicious, and having dozens of things like Falcon and FEMA camps and such slowly preparing to spring the totalitarian police state upon us.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. I too read this the other day...first thing I thought was...

With all of the guns in this country are these people nuts?
Once the word gets out about what they are doing, it's going to be open season.

Say what you will about America...
You fuck with Joe Six-Pack, and he thinks your about to take his gun away from him ...it's ON.

[FyurFly]

4. If detention camps agents show up in your neighborhood

You might be glad your neighbor has a couple of those scary “assault” rifles locked away.

[windbreeze]

5. I wish I knew how many times in the last couple years...I have asked the question..

what does everyone think they are doing these round ups for?? what's the real reason...doesn't anyone think it's scary that police are working together from the national level, right down to the local sheriff's dept., to arrest people? What happens to those rounded up? How many have been charged??? That these round ups are taking place regularly and most of the time close to 10,000 people are involved...doesn't it frighten anyone??? and you know what....I get no response whatsoever, from anyone! I thought this had been going on much longer than since April of 2005...but it seems it's more than once a year, which is where I got confused...I believe I read that it's already happened once this year...which is early, because it's usually in April or May when it happens for the first time in any year....

We should sure as hell be worried about what is going on in this regard...I don't know about anyone else, but I see them as practice runs, for the real thing...all the signing statements, and special acts that have been passed into law in the last few years, are NOT for nothing...there is a purpose behind every move they make...and it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the purpose really is...the only thing left to wonder...is if the American people will ever fully wake up...or will half continue to support whatever these guys do...?? including when they come for fellow Americans???
wb