From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ Excerpted from Jan. 24, 1994 issue of "For the People News Reporter" (A Biweekly Newspaper) Subscription rates: 12 months (26 issues) $19 USA / $50 Overseas 3 River Street, White Springs, FL 32096 MARCHING TOWARD A POLICE STATE by Robert W. Lee [Excerpts] The phrase "police state" has an ominous ring to those who are not striving to impose or maintain one. From the days of fascist Sparta to the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB, the lessons of history teach that dictators and oligarchs must centralize police powers in order to impose their wills and maintain control. Often, the would-be dictators themselves incite the violence that then serves as an excuse for centralizing police power and disarming the citizenry in order to "solve" the problem. That is what Adolph Hitler did to facilitate his rise to power. One result, described by liberal historian William L. Shirer (CFR) in *The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich*, was that on "June 16, 1936, for the first time in German history, a unified police was established for the whole of the Reich -- previously the police had been organized separately by each of the states -- and Himmler was put in charge as Chief of the German Police. This was tantamount to putting the police in the hands of the S.S., which since its suppression of the Roehm 'revolt' in 1934 had been rapidly increasing its power... The Third Reich, as is inevitable in the development of all totalitarian dictatorships, had become a police state." Gun control also played a crucial role in solidifying Nazi rule, confirming that dictatorship thrives best where the people are disarmed, since there is then little chance of mounting an effective, broad-based challenge to those in power. Section II, Paragraph 3, Part 5 of Hitler's March 18, 1938 "Weapons Law," for instance, asserted that a license to manufacture guns "must not be issued if the applicant -- or if one of the persons proposed for the commercial or technical management of the business -- is a Jew." In contrast, Section IV, Paragraph 12 provided that a "firearms acquisition permit is not needed by," among others, "Officials of the central government" and "the states." Moreover, Paragraph 19 exempted those "to whom a firearm is supplied for official purposes," including persons "in the service of the central government [and] the states... the S.A. [and] the S.S." Hitler realized that in order to establish a dictatorship he had to control the police powers and he had to confiscate the guns. But he did not tell the German people it was his intent to enslave them. By the time they realized what had happened, it was too late. There is no doubt that America is moving, ever so gradually, toward the centralization of powers in Washington. Police powers are no exception. More federal involvement in law enforcement and more restrictions on the private ownership of firearms [are alarming trends.] One recent manifestation of America's drift toward a national police force is the final report of the National Performance Review (NPR) headed by Vice President Al Gore. Said to be a blueprint for "reinventing government," this report recommends "the designation of the Attorney General as the Director of Law Enforcement to coordinate federal law enforcement efforts." [Some observers contend that this scheme] would actually create a national police force for the first time in our history. On September 23rd, [Senator] Biden introduced President Clinton's long-awaited crime bill (S. 1488)... Perhaps the singularly most ominous provisions of the President's $6 billion crime package are its calls for further federalization of state and local law enforcement agencies. Although it would be virtually impossible to convert a nation with 40,000 independent police forces into a police-state tyranny, such despotism would become inevitable should the central government gain control of those forces. The pending legislation calls for the expenditure of $3.45 billion over six years to fund 50,000 additional police officers under a "Cops on the Beat" community policing program. The Senate bill would also authorize college scholarships to generate a Police Corps of up to 20,000 recruits annually. The Cops on the Beat and Police Corps proposals would be giant steps toward ultimate federal domination of our nation's police departments. The best policemen come from the communities they serve and have the interests of the local citizenry first and foremost in mind. The President's army of federally financed policemen -- who would have few or no established roots in the communities they serve, and whose loyalty would run to the central government that pays their salaries or financed their education -- would stand in stark contrast to that ideal. Charles "Bud" Meeks, executive director of the National Sheriff's Association, recently noted the extent to which the federal government has already infringed upon local police power. "By passing statutes in an effort to make [the crime situation] better," he observed, "we're getting closer to a federal police state." The U.S. Constitution lists only one federal crime, treason, yet in recent years Congress has moved to make federal crimes of carjacking, vandalism of biomedical research laboratories, defacement of religious property, child pornography, and some 3,000 other offenses that were once the province of state and local municipalities. Step by step, the federal government, through the expansion of federal crimes, through funding, and through the growth of the regulatory agencies, is encroaching on local law enforcement. Syndicated columnist Samuel Francis reminds us that "over the last 30 years or so, the creeping federal incursion into law enforcement has yielded some 140 agencies at the federal level that have such a role... In addition, federal court rulings now govern much of what local police and courts do and how they can (and can't) do it, while more and more federal laws give more and more police power to the feds." And what good has it done? "...everyone knows the federal engulfment of law enforcement has failed miserably to control crime and make the country safe. That's because, by its very nature, effective law enforcement is local." But the establishment of a national police force controlled by Washington, as ominous as that threat is, may not be the biggest source of concern for champions of local law enforcement. Suggestions have already been made for deploying U.N. "peacekeeping" forces in America. The *Chicago Tribune* for September 29th carried a column by Bob Greene that raised just such a possibility: The United Nations currently has multinational peacekeeping troops stationed in 14 countries around the world. The precise missions vary, but they all have one thing in common: The international soldiers are there to help bring tranquility and safety to places that can't do so on their own. So perhaps there is one more place where a U.N. multinational force is desperately needed: The United States. "Preposterous?" Greene asked. "Maybe not. Maybe it is an issue for the 184 member nations of the U.N. to discuss. Sending soldiers from around the world onto the streets of our own country? We probably haven't come to the point where we need such action yet, but we're veering perilously close." Such a step would fit perfectly with what the new world order architects have in mind. On July 14th of this year, Senator Biden introduced Senate Joint Resolution 112 urging the President to initiate discussions leading to negotiations to establish a standing United Nations army. Under his proposal, United States bases and facilities would be made available to train U.N. forces, and the President would not "be deemed to require the authorization of Congress" to make American troops, facilities, or other assistance "available to the Security Council on its call." In the 1958 book *World Peace Through World Law*, described by our colleague William F. Jasper as "the closest thing to holy writ" for apostles of the new world order, Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn (CFR) proposed a socialist world government predicated on a revised U.N. Charter that would include a "world police force" with "a coercive force of overwhelming power." This force would be "the only *military* force permitted anywhere in the world after the process of national disarmament had been completed." In the second edition of the book released in 1960, Clark and Sohn added the warning that "it must be recognized that even with the complete elimination of all [national] *military* forces there would necessarily remain substantial, although strictly limited and lightly armed, internal police forces, and that these police forces, supplemented by civilians armed with sporting rifles and fowling pieces, might conceivably constitute a serious threat to a neighboring country in the absence of a well-disciplined and heavily armed world police." The handwriting, as they say, is on the wall, and it could hardly be more clear where the Pied Pipers of the new world order intend to march us. To sum up, the current and other recent presidential administrations have [been] working with patient gradualism to: 1) strengthen the United Nations militarily; 2) reduce our national defense capability; 3) establish a national police apparatus; 4) finance local police with federal tax dollars (and shackle them with accompanying federal controls); and 5) impose gun controls that will most affect peaceful citizens. It is time to wake up, become informed about what is going on, and start fighting back with every remaining legal and moral means at our command. And a good place to start would be to support our local police and keep them independent of federal control. ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan site by the archive maintainer. Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu)