Criminalizing the anti-war movement?

[stuntcat]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=6377

scuse the crap out of me if someone posted this before okay fight amongst yourselves :hi:

[liberal N proud]

1. That is what they intend on doing

[NotGivingUp]

2. yep...that's what they've effectually done. don't don a shirt that says 'peace'. n/t

[davekriss]

3. Stifling dissent

It's the "...pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence" that is most disturbing. U.S. citizens can have their assets frozen if the U.S. Treasury Secretary declares you might be predisposed to commit an "act of violence" meant to undermine Bush's war agenda. Sounds like we can be punished for "thought crimes".

Take this scenario as food for thought: It's September 15. You're at another unanswered mass protest against the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Undercover police, acting as agents provocateaur (forgive the spelling), start throwing rocks through windows and overturning garbage cans -- i.e., they commit "acts of violence". When the police round you up they can freeze all your assets. Further, the executive order acknowledges no recourse to the courts, a neutral party, to determine if indeed you "pose a significant risk". Protest, and the Bush administration can strip you of all property permanently. Nevermind that it violates the first, fourth, and fifth admendments.

Take it a step further and write a particularly truthful screed here. Could the Treasury Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense (as called for by the EO), twist a reverse casual chain and claim you pose a risk and therefore must have all your assets frozen? If that happens then trully democracy is dead.

Welcome to the New World Order... :(