Thought Crimes & Potential Criminals

When did we become a country which arrests you for Thought Crimes? A country which arrests you for Potential Crimes?

George Orwell must be rolling over in his grave. He warned us! We did not believe him. His book,“1984” was listed as fiction. But it seems that he was writing about our future. Warning us.

We are heading for a “Minority Report” type Judicial system now.

In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used “proactive arrests,” covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002, and recommend that those approaches be employed at future gatherings.

Among the most effective strategies, one police captain wrote, was the seizure of demonstrators on Fifth Avenue who were described as “obviously potential rioters.”

The reports provide a rare glimpse of internal police evaluations and strategies on security and free speech issues that have provoked sharp debate between city officials and political demonstrators since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The reports also made clear what the police have yet to discuss publicly: that the department uses undercover officers to infiltrate political gatherings and monitor behavior. {Source}

The claim and exercise of a Constitutional Right cannot be converted
into a crime.
Miller v. US, 230 F 486, 489.

You and I. Every American has Constitutional Rights, which the Government may not take away, for any reason.

Congress shall make no law ……… abridging the freedom of speech, ………. or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

Every inch of this land is a Free Speech Zone. You may not herd me off into a barbed wire, razorwire topped pen and call that America’s Free Speech Zone. And how does being shunted off into a no see, no hear zone make it possible for me to let my Government know what grievances I have with them? Do your really think that Mr. Bush sees any letters Americans send to him? At least, if I can stand and hold a sign up, while he drives by, he might be exposed to how one American feels about him and his policies.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

1954