From the January 2004 Idaho Observer:


Bill would place CIA agents in local police departments

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THE CAMPAIGN TO DEMILITARIZE THE POLICE

January 3, 2004

NEW YORK CITY -- A breathtaking theatre piece presented by World War III Arts-in-Action opened up the well-attended December 10 noontime press conference sponsored by the Campaign to Demilitarize the Police (CDP) at One Police Plaza, headquarters of the New York City Police Department.

Positioning itself directly in the center of police officialdom, various speakers brought home the message that the militarized repression of dissent, such as occurred in Miami recently, would not be tolerated come the August 04 Republican National Convention (RNC) to be held in midtown Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.

The campaign also launched an initiative to defeat the Maloney/Frost bill (HR 3439) introduced this past November in the House of Representatives, which allows for the deployment of CIA agents to local police departments throughout America.

There is a fundamental distinction between police strategy and tactics and military strategy and tactics.

Police (should) utilize minimum force to deal with domestic situations falling within mandated policing boundaries; the military uses maximum force to destroy an enemy outside of our domestic borders.

It is the blurring or merging of these distinct principles of policing tactics which engender our Campaign.

The militarizing and federalizing of the police began decades ago but the attacks of 911 supercharged it with massive funding and the nodding approval of a frightened, angry, and misinformed public.

In America today politicians legislate away our civil rights in exchange for a fictitious security. They eliminate trade protections, allowing corporations to export millions of jobs overseas, thereby eviscerating America's industrial might and devastating our living standard.

Politicians reach into the pockets of taxpayers with one hand and shred the social contract with the other. More and more we find people who have to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet.

In such trying times, these words from the Declaration of Independence resonate as deeply as when first written...”but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government...”

It is in this context that we view the militarization of the police. It boils down to this. Domestically, the war on terrorism is nothing else but a war on dissent. By equipping and licensing the police to operate militarily against a disarmed, confused, struggling population, treasonous politicians and corporate moguls attempt to suppress popular upheaval.

Demilitarizing the police is a great step towards restoring balance to our civil society, our system of government, and guaranteeing the people an effective means for redress of grievances.

Therefore we demand the following:

The defeat of HR 3439, The Joint Terrorism Task Force Enhancement Act, the bill to “embed” CIA agents in local police departments. CDP is making the following demands of the NYPD in advance of the August '04 Republican National Convention:

1. Total disclosure of police plans for suppressing dissent before and during the Republican National Convention.

2. No NYPD use of chemical weapons such as tear gas and CS gas -- which are outlawed as weapons of war under the Geneva Convention.

3. No use of projectile weapons (rubber and plastic bullets etc.) against unarmed demonstrators.

4. No aggressive mounted police attacks, and denial of freedom of movement - all of which serve to spread panic and anger among demonstrators.

5. An end to antagonistic NYPD use of interlocking metal barricades, preventing people from reaching demonstration sites.

6. An end to the policy of providing false and misleading information to the public regarding lawful and peaceful demonstrations.

7. An end of the unwarranted searches and seizures of peaceful protestors and the willful destruction of their personal property.

8. An end to harmful and invasive surveillance of protesters -- including monitoring of telephone and computer activity, facial recognition scanning, etc. -- under the guise of the so-called “war on terrorism.”

9. An end to harassment and preemptive arrests.

The fate of our republic will be tried not only in the halls of government, but in the streets, town squares, fields, forests and wildernesses of America.

Note: CDP is taking a firm stand against the militarization of Americans' policing entities. As usual, local police will swallow the carrot of federal dollars -- if we let them. (DWH)

www.demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com

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Maloney-Frost Bill to federalize/militarize American police

The Patriot Act II grants the feds authority to surveil, arrest, detain, seize the property of, imprison, try, convict, sentence and even murder anyone it identifies as fitting its expansive definition of “terrorist.” We can expect those critical of the federal government's foreign or domestic policies will be treated as terrorists. For a legislative body to even debate such an act is indicative of how far our nation has strayed from its constitutional underpinnings; that the representatives of the people would pass such an act and the president would sign it (on a Saturday while the nation was preoccupied with the alleged capture of Saddam half a world away) is an indication that the U.S. government is fully capable of the most heinous crimes against humanity. Enforcing such ghastly police-state provisions is another matter. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Rep. Martin Frost (D-TX) have been kind enough to lend their good names to a bill intended to plant appendages of the federal government's paranoid terrorist intelligence apparatus into every local law enforcement agency in America. Note also the last sentence: This bill comes with a blank check.

HR 3439 IH

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 3439

To promote the sharing of personnel between Federal law enforcement agencies and other public law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 4, 2003

Mrs. MALONEY (for herself and Mr. FROST) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To promote the sharing of personnel between Federal law enforcement agencies and other public law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `JTTF Enhancement Act of 2003'.

SEC. 2. JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCES.

(a) JTTFS REQUIRED- The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall carry out a program under which the Director maintains, in such regions and localities of the United States as the Director considers appropriate, task forces of law enforcement agents to combat international terrorism (known as joint terrorism task forces).

(b) COMPOSITION- Each task force under the program required by subsection (a) shall be comprised of at least one law enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Each such task force shall also include such other law enforcement agents as the Director considers appropriate, selected by the Director from among those Federal, State, and local law enforcement agents that are made available to the Director for such purposes.

(c) TRAINING- The Director shall make available to the law enforcement agents participating in such program such training as the Director considers appropriate to ensure that such agents are fully and properly prepared to combat international terrorism.

(d) FUNDING OF STATE AND LOCAL AGENTS- For each State and local law enforcement agent participating in such program, the Director shall continue to reimburse the agent's jurisdiction for the agent's overtime pay during the period the agent was so participating.

(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS- There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

SEC. 3. INCREASED PARTICIPATION OF IMMIGRATION AGENTS ON JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCES.

(a) IN GENERAL- From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall increase the number of law enforcement agents of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and available for participation in the joint terrorism task force program carried out under section 2.

(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS- There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

SEC. 4. DETAIL PROGRAM FOR STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 403a et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

`DETAIL OF EMPLOYEES WITH STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES

`SEC. 23. (a) DETAIL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law--

(1) upon request of the head of State or local law enforcement agency, the Director of Central Intelligence may detail any employee within the Central Intelligence Agency to that State or local law enforcement agency on a nonreimbursable basis; and

(2) subject to the approval of the Director of Central Intelligence, the head of a State or local law enforcement agency may detail any employee of that State or local law enforcement agency to the Central Intelligence Agency on a reimbursable basis.

(b) PERIOD OF DETAIL - Details shall be for such periods as are agreed to between the Director and the head of the State or local agency.

(c) BENEFITS, ALLOWANCES, TRAVEL, INCENTIVES- An employee detailed under subsection (a) may be authorized any benefit, allowance, travel, or incentive otherwise provided to enhance staffing by the organization from which the employee is detailed.

(d) APPROPRIATIONS- (1) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. (2) Details under subsection (a) are subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose.'.

SEC. 5. DETAIL PROGRAM FOR STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND ITS ELEMENTS.

(a) DETAIL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law--

(1) upon request of the head of State or local law enforcement agency, the Attorney General may detail any employee within the Department of Justice, or any element of the Department, to that State or local agency on a nonreimbursable basis; and (2) subject to the approval of the Attorney General, the head of a State or local law enforcement agency may detail any employee of that State or local law enforcement agency to the Department of Justice, or any element of the Department, on a reimbursable basis.

(b) PERIOD OF DETAIL- Details shall be for such periods as are agreed to between the Attorney General and the head of the State or local agency.

(c) BENEFITS, ALLOWANCES, TRAVEL, INCENTIVES- An employee detailed under subsection (a) may be authorized any benefit, allowance, travel, or incentive otherwise provided to enhance staffing by the organization from which the employee is detailed.

(d) APPROPRIATIONS- (1) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. (2) Details under subsection (a) are subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose.

SEC. 6. EXPANSION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT CENTER.

(a) EXPANSION OF CENTER- From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall expand the Law Enforcement Support Center to ensure that all Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies are able to access the Center.

(b) APPROPRIATIONS- There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.



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