Tea Party Crashes: The Most UnPatriotic Act
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By Susan Lindauer, 9/11 Whistleblower indicted on the Patriot Act
February 15th, 2011
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I confess that since November I’ve been holding my breath, watching the clock for how long Tea Party newcomers could hold out against the entrenched Republican elite on Capitol Hill. Collapse was inevitable, however I admit to feeling bitterly surprised at how rapidly they have thrown in the towel.
For the record, most of the Tea Party quit their principles of liberty on February 14, 2011—20 days into the new Congress—when Tea Party leaders abruptly abandoned their opposition to the Patriot Act and voted to extend intrusive domestic surveillance, wire tapping and warrantless searches of American citizens. In so doing, they exposed the fraud of their soaring campaign promises to defend the liberty of ordinary Americans, and fight government intrusions on freedom. All those wide eyed speeches that flowed with such thrilling devotions, all of it proved to be self-aggrandizing lies.
The Tea Party didn’t even put up a fight. Briefly they rejected a sneak attack to renew three surveillance clauses of the Patriot Act on a suspension vote. That filled my heart with hope. One push from the Republican elite, however and they went down with a loud thud.
My disappointment is particularly acute. Rather notoriously, I am distinguished as the second non-Arab American to face indictment on the Patriot Act, after Jose Padilla.
My status was pretty close to an enemy non-combatant. One would presume that I must have joined some terrorist conspiracy? Or engaged in some brutal act of sedition, such as stock piling weapons and munitions to overthrow those crooks in Congress?
You would be wrong. I got indicted for protesting the War in Iraq. My crime was delivering a warm-hearted letter to my second cousin White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card, which correctly outlined the consequences of War. Suspiciously, I had been one of the very few Assets covering the Iraqi Embassy at the United Nations for seven years. Thus, I was personally acquainted with the truth about Pre-War Intelligence, which differs remarkably from the story invented by GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.
More dangerously still, my team gave advance warnings about the 9/11 attack and solicited Iraq’s cooperation after 9/11. In August 2001, at the urging of my CIA handler, I phoned Attorney General John Ashcroft’s private staff and the Office of Counter-Terrorism to ask for an “emergency broadcast alert” across all federal agencies, seeking any fragment of intelligence on airplane hijackings. My warning cited the World Trade Center as the identified target. Highly credible independent sources have confirmed that in August, 2001 I described the strike on the World Trade Center as “imminent,” with the potential for “mass casualties, possibly using a miniature thermonuclear device.”
Thanks to the Patriot Act, Americans have zero knowledge of those truths, though the 9/11 Community has zoomed close for years. Republican leaders invoked the Patriot Act to take me down 30 days after I approached the offices of Senator John McCain and Trent Lott, requesting to testify about Iraq’s cooperation with the 9/11 investigation and a comprehensive peace framework that would have achieved every U.S. and British objective without firing a shot. Ironically, because of the Patriot Act, my conversations with Senator Trent Lott’s staff got captured on wire taps, proving my story.
You see, contrary to rhetoric on Capitol Hill, the Patriot Act is first and foremost a weapon to bludgeon whistleblowers and political dissidents. Indeed, it has been singularly crafted for that purpose.
The American people are not nearly as frightened as they should be. Many Americans expect the Patriot Act to limit its surveillance to overseas communications. Yet while I was under indictment, Maryland State Police invoked the Patriot Act to wire tap activists tied to the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, an environmental group dedicated to wind power, solar energy and recycling. The DC Anti-War Network was targeted as a “white supremacist group.” Amnesty International and anti-death penalty activists got targeted for alleged “civil rights violations.”
All of these are American activists engaged in lawful disputes of government policy. All of them got victimized by the surveillance techniques approved by Tea Party leaders, because they pursued a policy agenda that contradicted current government policies. The Tea Party swore to defend the freedom of independent thinking in Congressional campaigns. One presumes those promises are now forgotten until the next election.
I cannot forget. I cannot forget how I was subjected to secret charges, secret evidence and secret grand jury testimony that denied my right to face my accusers or their accusations in open court, throughout five years of indictment. I cannot forget my imprisonment on a Texas military base for a year without a trial or evidentiary hearing.
I cannot forget how the FBI, the US Attorneys Office, the Bureau of Prisons and the main Justice office in Washington — independently and collectively verified my story— then falsified testimony to Chief Justice Michael Mukasey, denying our 9/11 warnings and my long-time status as a U.S. intelligence Asset, though my witnesses had aggressively confronted them. Apparently the Patriot Act allows the Justice Department to withhold corroborating evidence and testimony from the Court, if it is deemed “classified.”
I cannot forget threats of forcible drugging and indefinite detention up to 10 years, until I could be “cured” of believing what everybody wanted to deny— because it was damn inconvenient to politicians in Washington anxious to hold onto power.
Some things are unforgivable in a democracy. The Patriot Act would be right at the top of that list. Nobody who has supported that wretched law should ever be allowed to brag of defending liberty again. That goes for the Tea Party. By voting to extend surveillance of American citizens, they have abandoned the principles of freedom that brought about their rise to power. They have shown their true face.
It is a face that we, the people, will remember. I, for one, have no intention of allowing them to forget.
Susan Lindauer is the author of EXTREME PREJUDICE: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq.
Intel Hub Note: On a brighter note, Rand Paul is completely against the Patriot Act and sent a letter of opposition to his colleagues.
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The new bums don’t have any back bone. To many old timers in there that like things the way they are. Hell that’s who’s making all the money, look at all the millionaires in that toilet bowl called DC
This was the last chance. These People supposedly came from the grass roots. I have heard and see enough. Since no one is going to do anything about anything from here on out, enjoy the tyranny, because it is coming now, full throttle.
We tried to warn you all. But you fell for it anyway, just like always.
Now what?
Is it time yet?
Will it every be time?
The United States is finished. The only thing left is the coming War.
I suspect the pacifist will indeed say the only thing left to do now is surrender, and go off to the camps, or allow what is coming to come.
I for one am sharping my knifes, and greasing my guns. Preparing all of my implements of War, for the day they decide to come..
Will they ever have such gumption? Probably not. They will continue down their path knowing no one is going to stop them, until we will be living as rats, while they sit on the top as total top cats.
Knowing that their is no backbone left anymore, in the Great Babylon the Whore.
Susan Lindauer is a very courageous woman and the real patriots of America owe her a great deal of support. I only hope that she will never despair and never capitulate to the hidden powers that rule the so-called “United” States. We need more women in her mould.
Oh, and one more thing for Susan. This God forsaken Country is not a Democracy, but a Constitutional Republic. That is one of the problems today, is that no one knows the difference. And no one seems to have read any of the Documents from the Founding Fathers, the Federalist Papers, or the Anti Federalist Papers.
If you had, you would not be making such stupid comments in the first place, glue bag…
Ha ha. What did you expect? You really think voting does any good? If it did it would be illegal.No matter who you think you “elect”,it doesn’t matter.They will screw you.Politics is just a reality show.The people you see as your leaders are only TV spokes models.They are a joke.Remeber how Kucinich was all against the Obamacare?One little ride in Obama’s plane where no one one could hear the threats and Kucinich was all for the bill! You really think that voting new spokes models with the electronic voting machines will make a difference? I got a bridge for sale ! I’ll sell it to you cheap!
I just tried to post this on facebook and a pop up appeared which informed me that this article has been flagged as “abusive”. What the hell? I have posted way more inflamatory things than this. I just think that this seems a great deal more creditable and Susan’s personal story is so damned compelling that the Main Stream will have to take notice at some point. Hope she doesn’t disappear.
Michael Mukassey was not Chief Justice, he replaced Ashcroft as Attorney General — oops. Otherwise a great article. The targeting of Amnesty International, anti-war and environmental groups, as well as the author, prove the Patriot Act has shred Constitutional protections for all of us.
The real Tea Party got results but, that was 100′s of years ago. This one is a cheap imitation. When you have the likes of a Sara Palin, she is about as unpatriotic as it gets. Her words are hollows and her rhetoric follows party Republican Party lines. I heard it all before.
If we keep playing with this system of dirty politics, liars, cheats, and thieves, then we become the same as them. We as a people must rise above all this nonsense. It only distracts us from solving real problems and build our country stronger.
The Congress (except for a small minority of lawmakers) is of no value to our society. They lie to us openly. They steal from us openly. They cause us pain and financial suffering openly. Yet, we keep quiet. We just plod along. Someday, when everything has collapsed around us, then we will face the demons.
There is not a political solution to any of these issues. Politics is a rigged game. If you manage to beat the system they will just change the rules. Enlightenment – ie: an awake public is the only solution. I never expected the Tea Party to do anything because I saw how it was coopted. These people don’t fight the opposition, they lead it. Case in point, the official 911 investigation. It just happens over and over. They keep using the same tactics because, this is all they know. These people are essentially driven by fear and fear does not allow higher brain activities to develop. An enlightened public is their ONLY weakness. Why? Because an enlightened public will take action. The action will be full spectrum and multi faceted. There will be no discernible leaders. Exactly what they DON”T want and are not programmed to deal with. This is serious folks. Forget your politics and protests, since they are worthless. Learn and enlighten and act.
“The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
Section 9 – Limits on Congress – The United States Constitution
This is not even an amendment, it is part of the original core document. The entire US Congress is guilty of breaking the highest law in this land, and the Supreme Court is so far proving useless in protecting us from this gross injustice.
The Tea Scrotums are finished as far as I’m concerned.
here in Michigan we have several traitors who rode the Tea Scrotum wave including Beneshiek, who betrayed us and voted to extend the unpatriot act.
We will remember next time……you f*****g bastards!
Even a cursory investigation of the evidence makes it blindingly obvious that 9/11 could not have happened – the way it actually did happen – without top-level U.S. Government foreknowledge and cooperation. The documentation that proves it has been widely available for many years. It is EASY to find out about. There is no excuse for still believing the official myth.
ALSO, the Tea Party is 100% a movement of Conservative Authoritarians; The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer (free PDF http://www.electricpolitics.com/media/docs/authoritarians.pdf) is a must-read for all the rest of us. Basically, those who are both Conservative and Authoritarian (25% of the population) are so desperate to have their beliefs and world-view validated that they will support any leader who just says the right things, no matter what anybody else can prove about that leader.
To paraphrase John Connor from the original Terminator movie: They cannot be bargained with, they cannot be reasoned with..