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Three States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 18, 2008
Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well
state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast
round up operation that one sheriff's deputy has described as "martial
law training".
Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took
part in what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and
anti-terrorism initiative" involving officers from more than 50
federal, state and local agencies.
Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the
initiative saw officers from six counties rounding up fugitives,
conducting traffic checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi
River and doing other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label
of "anti-terrorism".
WREG Memphis news channel 3 reported that the Sheriff's Department
arrested 332 people, 142 of whom were fugitives, or "terrorists" as
they now seem to be known.
Hundreds of dollars were seized and drugs recovered, and 1,292 traffic
violations were handed out to speeding terrorists and illegally parked
terrorists.
Click here to watch a WREG Memphis news report (see below - article pasted)
The authorities even raided businesses and store owners, confiscating
computers and paperwork in an effort to "track down possible
terrorists before something big happens".
The Sheriff's Department is determining if and when they plan another
round-up.
The operation, which involved police, deputies, the FBI, drug agents,
gang units and even the coast guard, is just one example of how law
enforcement at the state and local levels is being co-opted and
centralized by the Department of Homeland Security via massive federal
grants.
It also highlights how the distinction between crime and terrorism is
becoming irrelevant.
An Infowars reader called in to the Alex Jones show yesterday to alert
us to the story and explain that he had gleaned the information from a
his friend, a sheriff's deputy in Memphis, who had described the
operation as "training for martial law in America".
Forget innocent until proven guilty, you are now a terrorist suspect
until you are told otherwise.
It is now the norm to consider everybody equally likely to be guilty
of something than innocent. This is proactive policing, not
preventative or reactive policing, and is widely indicative of a
society that is NOT free.
This form of proactive policing is a phenomena indicative of a once
free state rapidly declining into a authoritarian police state.
If there was a real terror threat in these states, it would surely
make sense to for law enforcement agencies to target known trouble
areas, and follow up on already existing leads. Instead we are seeing
local police and the coast guard being recruited to randomly target
anyone in any area as possible terrorists.
Surely if there was a real terror threat, this activity would harm the
effort to combat it.
Of course, such activity is clearly not related to a real and tangible
terror threat, it is related to the ongoing effort to vastly increase
the size and scope of the federal government and increase the power it
has over American citizens.
The information and intelligence from the operation will be collated
and routed through federally funded state-run fusion centers, which
are working in conjunction with the military arm of the DHS, NORTHCOM.
Such information will soon include the DNA and other biometric
information from every person arrested, which DHS head Michael
Chertoff has declared is no longer your personal information.
We recently reported on the fact that after 9/11 the Justice
Department advised the Bush administration that it was able to
effectively suspend the Fourth Amendment where domestic counter
terrorism operations are concerned.
In light of this, and given that the government has begun to class any
crime as terrorism and set local and state police to work on
"anti-terror" operations, it is clear that the protections provided by
the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are under direct threat.
We have seen how new provisions will effectively nullify the U.S.
constitution, and a recent spate of executive orders, in particular
PDD 51, outline preparations for the implementation of open martial
law in the event of a declared national emergency.
Centralized and federally coordinated law enforcement programs
complement nationwide FEMA programs to train Pastors and other
religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach
their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the
implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass
vaccination programs and forced relocation. The effects of this
particular program have already been witnessed.
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Posted by April Thompson
Law Enforcement Crackdown on Terrorists
FAST FACTS:
- Operation Sudden Impact rounds up suspects
- Officers say the raid can also help identify possible terrorists
- Shelby County Sheriff's Department calls the multi-agency force a success
april.thompson@wreg.com
(Memphis 4/14/2008) Traveling around Memphis, you probably don't think much about terrorists, but law officers do.
It was front and center stage at a round up Saturday.
Operation
Sudden Impact included police, deputies, FBI, drug agents, and even
gang units all working together to see how crimes may be linked.
"People
committing crimes down in Crittenden County might have some kind of
warrant, and we might be looking for them in Shelby County. We in turn
feed that information into state police, which can give us a national
and international nexus if one exists," says Shelby County Sheriff Mark
Luttrell.
He says terrorists usually have other links and
because Memphis is a distribution center, it has to be especially on
guard. That includes the waterways.
The U.S. Coast Guard in Memphis was a part of Saturday's round-up, checking a boat on the river.
"We
look at everything, the safety of the tow boat in general. We also
check out the crew members, just to make sure there is nobody hiding
out on the tow boat, felons, criminals etc.," says Lt. Timothy Martin
of the U.S. Coast Guard in Memphis.
They say sharing information and building relationships is a big step in fighting back against those intent on harm.
The Sheriff's Department says 332 people were arrested, 142 of whom are were fugitives.
Hundreds of dollars were seized and drugs recovered, and 1,292 traffic violations were handed out.
They are determining if and when they plan another round-up.
Link to Story
