10-11-2010, 09:28 AM
Quote:In July of this year, U.S. citizen Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesman for WikiLeaks, was detained for several hours at the Newark airport after returning from a trip to Holland, and had his laptop, cellphones and other electronic products seized -- all without a search warrant, without being charged with a crime, and without even being under investigation, at least to his knowledge. He was interrogated at length about WikiLekas, and was told by the detaining agents that he could expect to be subjected to the same treatment every time he left the country and attempted to return to the U.S.
I know the origin of this type of treatment.
This is a modern version of the Geheime Staatspolizei that was firstly administered by Fat Hermann Goering (1934) but later, after a political battle royale, was wrested away from Goering by Heinrich Himmler.
By 1936 a national law was passed that gave carte blanche to the Gestapo to operate without judicial review.
I mention this because it seems to me that this is the case now in the US and that the FBI'O is likewise not subject to any sort of "judicial review".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo
The SS officer Werner Best, onetime head of legal affairs in the Gestapo,[7] summed up this policy by saying, "As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally."[4] A further law passed later in the year gave the Gestapo responsibility for setting up and administering concentration camps.
Keep an eye open for newly built DZ camps I say.
History repeats itself.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14