Say goodbye to civil disobedience

Shane99X · Dec 3, 2006

In the NWO civil disobedience is known only as disobedience, and it will not be tolerated any longer!

Endemic: The Move To Label All Civil Disobedience "Terrorism"
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act makes peaceful protesters terrorists
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, December 1, 2006

An endemic crackdown on peaceful protest and dissent has continued with President Bush signing the 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,'. Under the guise of protecting researchers, scientists and their staff who conduct experiments and tests on animals, the latest terror bill seeks to class as "terrorists" those who seek to protest against such activities.

The bill expands criminal prohibitions against the use of force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises and increases penalties for violations of these prohibitions. The operative term being "threats", because what an activist may see as protesting may be construed under the law to be threatening.

The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent in September, just prior to the Congressional recess. A similar bill, H.R. 4239, was approved by the House of Representatives this month.

"It's depressing to know that, just because of our beliefs involving animals, we are going to be branded terrorists if we protest," said Lori Nitzel, a Madison attorney and executive director of Alliance for Animals, a statewide group that pledges nonviolence.

Nitzel wonders if even the kind of leafleting the group did Friday near a Madison fur store could be construed as illegal. The bill can impose punishment if an animal enterprise suffers "economic damage."

"We are, in fact, hoping to cause economic damage to the store," Nitzel said.

One report states that backers of the bill say opponents are trying to alarm people with wacky what-ifs. Unfortunately with the government's track record, with any piece of legislation like this you have to ask "what if?".

Without getting into a debate about animal testing itself, the real issue of concern here is the term "terrorism". The push to merge crime and terrorism laws can be no clearer than in this case.

What happens if down the line terrorism legislation begins to be combined? Suddenly you end up with a number of animal rights "terrorists" who can be labeled as enemy combatants and detained without trial.

The more crimes that become "terrorism", the more people you can label as terrorists and treat in the same way. Every time a piece of legislation like this becomes law, the more the Bill of rights is eroded and free speech is restricted.

"The frightening thing for me is that it heavily criminalizes civil disobedience, and just for animal rights activists," Lori Nitzel says. Nitzel is right, however, there are plenty more moves afoot to criminalize other forms of civil disobedience.

We have previously documented cases where those who attend antiwar demonstrations or Quaker meetings have been monitored and placed on a Pentagon database as possible threats. Think about that for a minute, the military is monitoring peaceful US citizens who do not agree with illegal warfare and placing them on a list of possible enemies.

We have previously reported multiple times on how the intelligence and law enforcement agencies have "domestic-terrorism files" into which peaceful protesters have been placed. These are not isolated incidents.

The precedent is set, if you protest you go on the subversive list and you'll be first into the forced labor camps when a city or two gets nuked.

Of course, we have known for a long time that The renewed and extended Patriot Act will target protesters and allow secret services a wider latitude at public events. Penalties for such violations would increase from six months to a year in prison.

The Patriot Act as we have exhaustively documented is the key police state weapon the authorities have in their armory. The party line often heard from Neo-Cons in their attempts to defend the Patriot Act either circulate around the contention that the use of the Patriot Act has never been abused or that it isn't being used against American citizens. The Legislation's reach HAS gone beyond terrorism and it IS actively being used to target American citizens.

The most recent example of a U.S. citizen being targeted using terror legislation involved BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast, who was pursued by Homeland Security and charged with unauthorized filming of a “critical national security structure,” (an Exxon Oil refinery that was readily available to anyone with an Internet connection at Google Maps), under PATRIOT Act legislation. The charge was later dropped after an activist outcry.

Remember, section 802 is specifically aimed at US citizens and announces any crime as "domestic terrorism". Citizens can be held without a trial as "Enemy Combatants"

The Washington Post recently reported "The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say."

Also under the Patriot Act police are authorized to impose "Free Speech Zones".

Top legal experts and scholars are nearly unanimous that the Military Commissions Act, another piece of Constitution shredding terror legislation, also affects American citizens.

Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."

The endemic movement to kill off free speech has spread to Britain too. Free Speech Zones were also introduced in Britain last year, making it illegal to protest outside parliament. The new draconian laws forbid spontaneous free speech within a one-kilometre radius of the House of Commons.

Last year the Scotland Sunday Herald reported that the British Government was considering just banning protest altogether after a major terror attack and making it against the law to criticize the government in a State of emergency.

Both Britain and Australia also have domestic surveillance databases that gather the information of anyone who criticizes them or who they consider to be subversive

Everywhere we look the First Amendment is under attack. It seems that legislation is being passed daily, each bill tearing away at fundamental rights and condemning another form of protest as terrorism. It has got to the point for the government where what is being protested is less of an issue than the act of protest itself which they clearly see as the real threat

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http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/011206terror_legislation.htm

sentient · Dec 4, 2006

Say goodbye to civil disobedience
SAY HELLO...........
toooooo
BORAT !!!!

read this my friend and join the
new situationist international !!!!
anarchism is dead, communism is dead,
all the boring ones like fascism are dead -
stop loving what you hate !
the government has to be fought by a new enemy

The SI has a reputation for scandal and subversion. Its political theories made popular by punk rock were a blend of Marxism and anarchism. In spite of this the SI condemned both communism and anarchism for their failings. They criticised modern consumer society for alienating people and turning their lives into meaningless pursuits of commodities.

As people consume the commodities or image-objects of the spectacle they become part of the spectacle, making rebellion against it hard. ‘Even the most radical gesture’ gets recuperated into the spectacle and turned into a commodity, negating its subversive meaning – ‘It is a question not of elaborating the spectacle of refusal, but rather of refusing the spectacle’ Everything becomes a commodity in the spectacle, even TV, radio, the internet, books, ideas, thoughts and desires. Rebellion is sold back to us as an image that pacifies us.
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Now stop being a goody and find out where to join others that think like this - dont let me lead you think for yourself it will encourage you to actually do something rather than sit there spouting old theories like the government wants you to do. Dont keep selling that which you are saying must be taken down ! search and thou shalt find. Let the government eat cake we dont need more news items - we need more rebellion. WE MAKE OUR OWN SPECTACLE WE MAKE THE REVOLUTION POINT THE CAMERA AT THE NEW NEWS !
You accidentally are selling back the tired old image the government wants you to sell and you will frighten the horses. Theres another way to do this !

The first important action of the SI was its attack on the ‘International Assembly Of Art Critics’ in Belgium. This attack took the form of disrupting the press conference and handing out abusive flyers, a tactic that had served them well as the Lettrist International when they disrupted a Charlie Chaplin press conference and when one member, dressed as a priest, denounced God and the church from the pulpit of Notre Dame cathedral
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The new situationist international is here we build on the old we take the concrete pillars of their revolution and top that with a roof
we are building the one big revolution! Us against the cathedral of the state. The TV crews of rebellion against the TV crews of the state. We create it we bounce off bridges and dive into backrooms and make it. we spit it back we vomit on TV we subvert them rewrite their script we make them point their cameras at us and our cameras point at us we are the news not them
DIVERT PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE SPECTACLE OF THE STATE
NOT TOWARDS IT - POINT THE CAMERA TO THE REBELLION !!!!

White Scorpion · Dec 4, 2006

Fucking brilliant. I never thought of that, but every word of it makes sense.

Gravity · Dec 5, 2006

from what ive read, it seems to be targeted at animal rights extremists who threaten/harrass/attack people who do research with animals etc.

still, the patriot act is terrible, and vague laws that increase the definition of terrorism arent a good thing. it should be modified to explicitly rule out peaceful protest.

topolm · Dec 5, 2006

sentient said:

Say goodbye to civil disobedience
SAY HELLO...........
toooooo
BORAT !!!!

read this my friend and join the
new situationist international !!!!
anarchism is dead, communism is dead,
all the boring ones like fascism are dead -
stop loving what you hate !
the government has to be fought by a new enemy

Now stop being a goody and find out where to join others that think like this - dont let me lead you think for yourself it will encourage you to actually do something rather than sit there spouting old theories like the government wants you to do. Dont keep selling what you are saying must be taken down ! search and thou shalt find. Let the government eat cake we dont need more news items - we need more rebellion. WE MAKE OUR OWN SPECTACLE WE MAKE THE REVOLUTION POINT THE CAMERA AT THE NEW NEWS !
You accidentally are selling back the tired old image the government wants you to sell and you will frighten the horses. Theres another way to do this !
The new situationist international is here we build on the old we take the concrete pillars of their revolution and top that with a roof
we are building the one big revolution! Us against the cathedral of the state. The TV crews of rebellion against the TV crews of the state. We create it we bounce off bridges and dive into backrooms and make it. we spit it back we vomit on TV we subvert them rewrite their script we make them point their cameras at us and our cameras point at us we are the news not them
DIVERT PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE SPECTACLE OF THE STATE
NOT TOWARDS IT - POINT THE CAMERA TO THE REBELLION !!!!
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Brilliant! However, the media controlled by the "tribe" will NEVER allow it.

sentient · Dec 5, 2006

Brilliant! However, the media controlled by the "tribe" will NEVER
allow it.
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It is quite obvious you
neveverevever understood a word of it !

re-read the history lesson here

The Spectacle generates passivity in its spectators, highlighted by the SI’s essay ‘The Spectators Of Suicide’ in which the SI report that members of the public yelled to a suicidal man to jump for their entertainment instead of trying to coax him down. The spectacle forces people into stereotypes and roles especially through the specialisation of labour (you are your job and the things you consume) The spectacle presents a false view of the world where ‘the liar has lied to himself.’
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STOP SELLING THE IMAGE
OF REVOLUTION AND
MAKE A REVOLUTION
DONT LIE TO YOURSELF
YOURE NOT A REVOLUTIONARY YET !

ALL PUBLICITIY EVEN BAD PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY STOP PUBLICISING THE STATE - PUBLICISE THE REVOLUTION PUBLISISE THE POSITIVE ! WHAT DID YOU DO FOR THE REVOLUTION TODAY, spectacle puppet?
By denouncing them you publicise them, become part of their news.
You make them look unbeatable, your powerlessness is their power !!!!!
Become more powerful by making sure your message gets across
IT ONLY TAKES A LITTLE MORE THOUGHT TO BREAK FREE OF YOUR OWN DOGMA AND BY DOING SO - FREE YOURSELF FROM THEIR DOGMA
A LOT OF COURAGE A BIT MORE THOUGHT
PLUG IN TO THE MEDIA YOU CREATE - JOIN WITH OTHERS TO MAKE A NEW MEDIA THAT POINTS ITS CAMERA AT THE TRUE REBELLION

As people consume the commodities or image-objects of the spectacle they become part of the spectacle, making rebellion against it hard. ‘Even the most radical gesture’ gets recuperated into the spectacle and turned into a commodity, negating its subversive meaning – ‘It is a question not of elaborating the spectacle of refusal, but rather of refusing the spectacle’ Everything becomes a commodity in the spectacle, even TV, radio, the internet, books, ideas, thoughts and desires. Rebellion is sold back to us as an image that pacifies us.
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SO USE THE SAME TACTICS AGAINST THEM
The quoted text Rephrased :
As people consume the objects on sale and the image of the object and long to identify with the object of desire, they become part of the promotional campaign for that object. That makes rebellion hard, because by rebelling against it you are pointing another camera at it. The spectacle, the state and its capitalists learn to love your revolution as they know their media is big. They incorporate you into their spectacle, You become part of the image. "HEROIN" the new perfume by Givenche'. Smirnoff, like the velvet pubes of a russian princess
Virgin Trains with a hammer and ciycle - AND NOW THE NEWS, " a bunch of toffee nosed students had a bit of a riot today and someone on the internet cut and pasted a load of nonesence by a long dead guy with a beard" and now for something more interesting, the weather : ha ha ha Jan ! nice one theyle grow up and meantime its gonna get very warm -Oh look another guy with an anarchist flag mummy should buy him some Nike's with the black star on the heel.
They deny you to sell you and then they sell you as a fluffy toy. Or as a Che Guevarra poster to passify you with.
The idea is not to publicise them but to subvert their meaning, to pluck at the ambiguity, and the illogical and turn it back at the camera.
everything digital is hackable but, shhhh ! dont tell anyone in a suit!
hack a tv station today but be carefulll dadies watching !!! he he he dont want your dad to be a commie eh hes tooooo old
and now the news "dad says his sons a young commie but he'll grow up"
plug your camera in. point it at who and what is doing the subversion, build your own media. Show the revolution happening on utube - but please
educate someones dad with it as well

THE IMPORTANT MESSAGE IS
DONT SELL OUT !
ITS ABOUT POLITICS NOT MONEY AND NOT FAME !
ITS NOT A LAUGH ITS A REVOLUTION
be interesting be creative and most of all be intelligent, one thing the spectacle cant sell is an intelligent adversary.
THEY CAN SELL YOU THE IMAGE BUT NOT THE WORDS OR THE SPIRIT - THEY BREAK SPIRIT BY SELLING YOU AS AN IMAGE - BREAK THEIR SPIRIT BY BEING THE ANTITHESIS THEY ARE THE ENEMY - USE THEM TO DESTROY THEM
take risks
dont just sit on youre arse hoping someone else will do it for you

NEXT STOP - A CITY NEAR YOU - Join us and creat the new big one the new improved revolution, 5 years in the making we bring you
THE NEW SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL
coming to a subverted media outlet near you !
BECOME THE NEWS
BECOME THE ANTISPECTACLE
FORGET THE MONEY AND TRINKETS
DO THE POLITICS

The Spectacle generates passivity in its spectators, highlighted by the SI’s essay ‘The Spectators Of Suicide’ in which the SI report that members of the public yelled to a suicidal man to jump for their entertainment instead of trying to coax him down. The spectacle forces people into stereotypes and roles especially through the specialisation of labour (you are your job and the things you consume) The spectacle presents a false view of the world where ‘the liar has lied to himself.’
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http://www.point-of-departure.org/SMIRK/SitDictionary-v0_5.htm

movie camera action !

gardener · Dec 5, 2006

When you limit discourse, such as speaking out for animal rights, you limit the right to speak for other causes. Grant government the right to control your free speech in any forum, and you allow them to control your speech.

I haven't given up my rights even though they passed this bill. I will continue to speak out!

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