Colorado Seeks “Peace Officer” Status for Secret Service
April 9, 2013 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State
(N3) The Colorado state government recently enacted a restrictive gun control law that is wildly unpopular with both the state’s gun-owning population and many of its elected sheriffs. Now Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper is seeking to enact a measure that would effectively federalize law enforcement in the state by giving the U.S. Secret Service arrest powers.
State Senate Bill 13-013 would extend to officers of the Secret Service “limited peace officer authority while working in Colorado [when] responding to a non-federal felony or misdemeanor that has been committed in his or her presence.” That authority could also be exercised when a Secret Service agent is acting “as part of a bona fide task force or joint investigation with Colorado Peace Officers.”
Some commentators point out that this measure would permit Secret Service agents to arrest sheriffs who refuse to enforce new gun control laws enacted by either the state or federal government.
www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2013a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/79D915E94E9CD28F87257AEE0054A84C?open&file=013_01.pdf
k99.com/governor-hickenlooper-about-to-give-secret-service-power-to-arrest-colorado-sheriffs/
Federal Framework Being Set Up To Arrest Sheriffs
April 3, 2013 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State
(MODERN SURVIVAL BLOG) Colorado, and apparently Texas (next) are being targeted with an attempt to set up a federal authority framework that will enable Secret Service agents (not just those guarding the president), and others of the U.S. Secret Service including uniformed division officers, physical security technicians and specialists, and other ‘special officers’, to arrest and remove an elected sheriff for refusing to enforce the law (or anyone breaking the law).
The bills being introduced defines law as including any rule, regulation, executive order, court order, statute or constitutional provision.
Why are they doing this? Here’s why…
It would establish federal authority police powers in a State, enabling an enforcement arm reporting directly to the president (the Secret Service).
It would potentially lead to enabling the president / executive branch to theoretically override the actions and preventative measures that are now being taken by many States throughout the country who are trying to preserve 2nd Amendment gun rights and who are prohibiting the enforcement of unconstitutional law passed by Congress or pushed by executive order.
As some of you may know, a growing list of sheriffs (more than 340 so far) across the country have expressed that they will not enforce a Washington mandate that clearly violates the Second Amendment.
Many State laws to preserve gun rights are gaining momentum. States include Montana, Ohio, Kentucky, Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Utah, and New Mexico.
However, in Colorado, Senate Bill SB-13-013 has evidently just passed the Senate, and will be heading on to its potential signing by the governor, giving police powers and arrest authority to the executive branch of federal government (Secret Service) within the State. In Texas a similar bill has just been introduced in the State legislature.
The president and vice-president Biden have been actively pursuing state legislatures and pushing for passage of the bills. Obama is scheduled to visit Colorado in just a few days. “Colorado is a pawn for the Obama-Biden plan,” and then on to the next… at least those that won’t fall into line.
Quoted from Rep. Lori Saine of Colorado, who says she believes the bill is intended to be used as a foundation for later legislation that will surrender still greater control to federal officials…
“There’ve been so many explanations for the reasons they really need this bill passed. So what is it really?” “I believe it is intended to be used for setting up a framework so that at some other time they could expand it to possibly include being able to arrest a sheriff who is refusing to enforce unconstitutional laws. They would justify it by saying that since we’ve already given the Secret Service this ability, why not give them just one more?”
It is a full court press by the executive branch of the federal government to empower themselves even further by inserting themselves as police authority within the state, to eliminate opposition.
…thought you’d like to know
Some of the data for this report has been sourced from,
WND
Down The Rabbit Hole w/ Popeye (01-11-2013) The JFK Assassination: His Wounds, The Parkland Dr.s, The Secret Service & More
January 17, 2013 by POPEYE
Filed under DTRH w/ Popeye, Featured Stories, US News
(FEDERALJACK) On this edition of DTRH Popeye welcomes back researcher and expert Vince Palamara for their monthly broadcast on the JFK Assassination. They are doing monthly broadcasts on the subject leading up to the 50th anniversary of the murder on November 22nd 2013. On this episode they cover the Secret Service involvement, JFK’s wounds, and testimony from the doctors at Parkland Hospital that worked on Kennedy.
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Secret Service Asks Americans to Report Tweets That ‘Concern You’
November 17, 2012 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State
(CNSNews.com) The Secret Service has expanded its operation to Twitter, urging Americans to report on their fellow citizens whose tweets “concern you.”
“To report a tweet that concerns you, call the nearest field office in your state,” the Secret Service tweeted on Oct. 23. The agency then links to a list of contact numbers for Field Offices in each state.
The Secret Service sent another tweet on Wednesday, again asking its followers to report tweets. “Contact your nearest field office with time-sensitive or critical info or to report a tweet,” it said.
The agency has accrued more than 44,000 followers since joining the social media platform on May 9, 2011. Twitter surpassed 500 million user accounts around the world earlier this year, 140 million of which are in the U.S.
Twitter has become a popular platform for political engagement, as demonstrated by the surge in tweets during the three presidential debates. Twitter reported that the first match-up between President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney on Oct. 3 was the “most tweeted-about event in U.S. politics,” with 10.3 million tweets and as many as 158,690 tweets per minute.
“By comparison, during the 2008 debates between Obama and John McCain, only 500,000 tweets were created total during all four debates,” according to PRO OnCall Technologies. “The first two minutes of the Obama/Romney debate saw two million tweets.”
In September, a North Carolina man was arrested for threatening to kill President Barack Obama on Twitter.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/secret-service-asks-americans-report-tweets-concern-you
What Happened to JFK’s Brain???
September 11, 2012 by POPEYE
Filed under Featured Stories, US News
(FEDERALJACK) This is shocking video taken from a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, in which Paul K. O’Connor testifies about the whereabouts of JFK’s missing brain. O’Connor was an attendant at the autopsy in Bethesda. Even though it was a mock trial, the judge, jury and attorneys are real (not actors), and the witnesses testify under oath. The prosecutor is Vincent Bugliosi, the defense attorney is Gerry Spence. O’Connor is clearly nervous about testifying. He says some pretty shocking things; even Bugliosi is shocked and surprised by the testimony. O’Connor is especially nervous about what he has to say at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXBKqo23Gkw
Secret Service Hooker May Get US Visa, Green Card, Has Dubai Connections
(Debbie Schlussel) Dania Londono Suarez, the prostitute at the center of the Secret Service scandal, may soon be in the United States on a visa and she will probably seek–and may get–other immigration benefits, such as a green card, as federal authorities seek her testimony regarding what happened between her and U.S. Secret Service agents during a Presidential trip to Cartagena, Colombia.
As I’ve reported in the past, El Salvadoran illegal aliens, who were detained by an Arizona ranch owner and given milk and cookies, were given visas, green cards, and, eventually, complete U.S. citizenship–by Bush Justice Department officials in exchange for their testimony against the ranch owner. (They also ultimately obtained ownership of the ranch.) It is likely that the Secret Service hooker, Suarez, will get a similar deal.
And there is another reason, Suarez may be ferreted to the U.S. and granted a long-term stay here. While some of the Secret Service agents caught up in the scandal resigned or accepted their terminations, there are rumblings that one or more of the agents may challenge their firings. Without the testimony of Suarez, their firings may not withstand litigation.
And there’s another concern about Suarez beyond the fact that she was in a position to blackmail and/or extort Secret Service agents protecting the President: she has friends in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’ largest nation-state and the place where the 9/11 hijackers had bank accounts and from which they got documents and IDs to help carry out their attacks. Suarez told various media outlets that she jet-setted to Dubai with a friend when the story of her interaction with Secret Service agents broke. (Good thing she didn’t have an Israeli stamp in her passport or prohibida la entrada–no entry.)
But who is her friend that took her to Dubai? Is it a Dubai Arab Muslim “customer”? Is it somebody who was in a position to pay her off to do something–such as blackmail or extortion–to Secret Service agents protecting the President, had he wanted to?
Without her testimony to officials, we’ll likely never know. And that’s why we will soon see her with a visa and one-way ticket to the U.S., along with a lot of other fanfare. Only in America.
Sad, especially to those innocent, law-abiding people who are trying to get to the U.S. legally. And a hooker who spreads her legs for a living will automatically get the golden ticket. But this is the world and sad state of America in which we now live. And it’s only getting worse.
Call it, “Pretty Woman: The Secret Service Visa Sequel.”
US Secret Service Confirms New Power Over Free Speech
April 5, 2012 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State, Featured Stories
(LS NEWS GROUP) Over the weekend I received an email from my local TEA Party Director that Barack Hussein Obama would fly into Carlsbad, NM airport on Wednesday 21 March, in order to “make an appearance at the South Easter NM oilfields.” However, apparently after hearing that an immediate anti-Obama rally had been planned, Obama and his entourage changed the landing location to Roswell, NM… a city 77 miles from Carlsbad.
Note: Interesting as, despite the fear and trepidation Obama is trying valiantly to instill into the American people, his own panic seems to be showing.
After having the above article brought to our attention we decided to contact the United States Secret Service to verify that the agency did in fact have the authority to determine who could or could not attend a public function on public property held by Barack Obama. We were told the following:
“We were sent a memo after the recent signing of the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, advising we now had the authority to deny anyone access to any public event held by the President or Vice President. Prior to President Obama’s signing of HR 347 the Secret Service did not have any involvement in deciding who could or could not participate in any public function on public property by the President. Prior to HR 347 being signed the Secret Service only screened and approved or denied people for “ticketed” events which were designed for invited or ticketed guests only.”
So yes, it appears the United States Secret Service has wasted NO time in using their new found power to determine what “speech” is permitted around any public appearance of Barack Obama.
The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011
Andrew Napolitano condemns this recently enacted statute:
Last week, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech, association and petition of the government are prohibited. And it permits the Secret Service to make these determinations based on the content of speech.
Thus, federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them, even though the First Amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government. The new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a “restricted” area may be prosecuted. And because the statute does not require the government to prove intent, a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted, as well….
This abominable legislation enjoyed overwhelming support from both political parties in Congress because the establishment loves power, fears dissent and hates inconvenience, and it doesn’t give a damn about the Constitution. It passed the Senate by unanimous consent, and only three members of the House voted against it. And the president signed it in secret. It is more typical of contemporary China than America. It is more George III than George Washington.
One can reasonably criticize the law, but this strikes me as rather excessive.
The mere fact that now the United States Secret Service has the authority to silence free speech anywhere that Barack Obama appears is simply WRONG. Anyone who says the Secret Service will not abuse the power needs to remember one very important and unspoken fact: The United States Secret Service will DO whatever Barack and or Michelle Obama instruct them to do. So while the Secret Service may not on their own abuse the power, Barack Obama and his campaign’s past acts demonstrate Obama will direct the Secret Service to use this new authority to make his public events appear as if the world loves him.
http://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/03/20/us-secret-service-confirms-new-power-over-free-speech/
Secret Service Returns Jotform.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened
February 17, 2012 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State, Featured Stories
(TECH DIRT) There’s been a lot of interest in the story of the Secret Service completely shutting downJotform.com through a request to GoDaddy. It appears that the suspension is now ending, though it hasn’t fully propagated. What’s amazing is that no one in the US government (or at GoDaddy) seems to be willing to explain what happened. When GoDaddy completely shut down JotForm.com with no notice, the folks at JotForm had to inquire as to what the hell happened to their entire website. They were merely told to contact a Secret Service agent. That agent thentold JotForm she was too busy to respond to them and would get back to them within a week.
Think about that for a second. The US government completely takes down a small business’ website and then is too busy to explain why.
JotForm noted that it was willing to cooperate fully if there were specific users that were a problem, but the Secret Service did not seem to care that it had almost destroyed an entire startup’s business:
When I contacted the Secret Service, the agent told me she is busy and she asked for my phone number, and told me they will get back to me within this week. I told them we are a web service with hundreds of thousands of users, so this is a matter of urgency, and we are ready to cooperate fully. I was ready to shutdown any form they request and provide any information we have about the user. Unfortunately, she told me she needs to look at the case which she can do in a few days. I called her many times again to check about the case, but she seems to be getting irritated with me. At this point, we are waiting for them to look into our case.
So far, the Secret Service still isn’t talking, returning a bland and meaningless statement to press requests:
“We are aware of the incident and we’re reviewing it internally to make sure all the proper procedures and protocols were followed.”
GoDaddy, similarly, appears to be staying almost entirely silent.
All of this is completely unacceptable. Almost everything about this sets off alarm bells about over aggressive (and potentially illegal) censorship by the US government of protected free speech. We’ve been seeing a much more aggressive and overreaching effort by US officials against websites over the past 18 months or so, and at some point, they’re going to get smacked down by a court who will explain to them the nature of the First Amendment and the fact that you can’t unilaterally take down entire websites without recognizing the collateral damage on legitimate web businesses.
Secret Service Seizes JotForm.com, Nuking Millions of Online Forms
February 17, 2012 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State
(WIRED) Jotform.com, the domain name of a business providing hosting for online forms, has been seized by the Secret Service, essentially gutting the company’s business.
The Wednesday seizure of JotForm.com, with the assistance of the domain names’s registrar, GoDaddy, disabled about 2 million jotform.com forms, said Aytekin Tank, the site’s founder. The embeddable forms are hosted by the company and let sites quickly put up contact and sign-up forms online.
GoDaddy told Wired it took the site down at the request of law enforcement.
Tank has informed its “hundreds of thousands of users” in a blog post to alter their form URLs to jotform.net, which should revive a customer’s hosted forms.
“They have disabled the DNS without any prior notice or request,” Tank said of GoDaddy. “They have told us the domain name was suspended as part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.”
An a Wednesday e-mail to Tank from GoDaddy’s Spam and Abuse Department, which Tank forwarded to Wired on Thursday, GoDaddy referred Tank to the Secret Service.
The agency did not immediately respond to Wired’s request for comment.
GoDaddy’s director of network abuse Ben Butler said in an e-mail to Wired that the registrar’s privacy policy prevents him from directly addressing the case, and did not specify if the company received a subpoena or simply gave the domain to the Secret Service based on a request.
“But, we can tell you in general terms, at the specific request of law enforcement, GoDaddy sometimes takes action to prevent further harm being caused by a website hosted on our servers,” Butler wrote. “This would include things like sites engaged in phishing, malware installation, securities fraud, and so on.”
The seizure came two weeks after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it had seized 307 domains allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and for selling fake professional sports merchandise.
Tank speculated in a Hacker News forum that the investigation surrounds an e-mail phishing program being run by a customer using a hosted JotForm form.
“Our guess is that this is probably about a phishing form. We take phishing very seriously. Our Bayesian phishing filter has suspended 65,000 accounts last year,” he said.
On the New York company’s blog, he said, “We have 2 million user-generated forms. It is not possible for us to manually review all forms. This can happen to any website that allows user-generated content.”
JotForm is hardly alone in the business of online forms. Google Docs allows sites to embed forms, and SurveyMonkey recently bought Jotform competitor WuFoo last April for $35 million.
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick adequately sums up the concerns about this seizure.
“Even if the forms were being used for some illegal purpose,” Masnick said, “I still can’t fathom a reason why it should lead to everyone else getting censored and an internet startup facing a massive hardship wherein tons of users have had their service disrupted with millions of useful forms being suddenly disappeared.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/jotform-domain-seizure/
Former SS Boss Proposes Global Email Fusion Center
January 5, 2012 by POPEYE
Filed under Establishing The Police State
(INFOWARS) Ronald Noble – the former head of the Secret Service, the BATF, and secretary general of Interpol – wants to create a fusion center with the ability to track and trace your email.
Noble says that although there is no known threat posed against the Olympics planned for 2012 in London, the state needs a fusion center to make sure.
“A smart terrorist would know that if the world’s attention is focused on something and they commit a terrorist act it will help them create the kind of fear that would make people want to leave London,” Noble toldThe Independent before visiting Scotland Yard to discuss arrangements for the Games.
“My concern is that the people planning that attack – that nuclear attack, that bio-terrorist attack, that attack that should concern us all as a world – would be able to plan it more effectively because we don’t have a network in place for tracing the source of email messages on the internet,” he said.
Noble’s proposed email fusion center will provide a place where “police around the world can go quickly and find out the source of any kind of message or communication that’s come across the internet.”
In order to calm the fears of civil libertarians, Noble emphasized that the fusion center “will only target specific, suspicious emails” and will not have the capability to “track all the messages from billions of innocent people.”
Interpol, however, is not above using its police powers politically. The Independent cites the example of Benny Wenda, a West Papuan who won asylum in the UK after having been persecuted by Indonesian authorities for calling for the independence of his homeland.
In 2011, Benny discovered that Interpol had listed a “red notice” against him following a request from the Indonesian police, according toFair Trials International. “This red notice authorizes Benny’s provisional arrest with a view to extradition to face prosecution on the same politically-motivated charges that caused him to flee from West Papua,” notes the organization.
In the United States, so-called fusion centers are notorious for spying on political activists across the political spectrum – Muslim lobbyists in Texas, environmental activists in Pennsylvania, Tea Party supporters, anti-war and anti-death penalty activists around the country have been surveilled by fusion centers.
In Missouri, a report produced by a fusion center targeted Ron Paul supporters, pro-life activists and supposed militia members as potential terrorists. In 2009, the Virginia Fusion Center produced a similar report.
“These new fusion centers, over 40 of which have been established around the country, raise very serious privacy issues at a time when new technology, government powers and zeal in the ‘war on terrorism’ are combining to threaten Americans’ privacy at an unprecedented level,” the ACLU explained in 2007.
Two years later, in 2009, the number of fusion centers had grown to 72.
In 2010, the Department of Homeland Security boasted that it has worked diligently to integrate state fusion centers into a larger surveillance network – including participation by the FBI and the CIA – to “enlist all of our intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security capabilities” to supposedly prevent terrorist attacks that are, in fact, wildly overstated.
The DHS states that local fusion centers are now concentrating on “strategic priorities for federal government support” in the war on phantom terrorists. In short, fusion centers are a vital link in the effort to federalize local law enforcement and violate Posse Comitatus.
Ronald Noble’s admission that a global fusion apparatus is attempting to surveil email destinations without probable cause or – in the case of the United States – without court warrant is more evidence that the state will not rest until the internet becomes a vast and sprawling electronic panopticon, used not to catch violent terrorists but keep tabs on the political activity of people opposed to the government.
http://www.infowars.com/former-ss-boss-proposes-global-email-fusion-center/
