The Rise of a New Movement
Eve Hillary—10/2003 |
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Medical analyst
and writer, Eve Hillary, writes about the terrible
consequences of the US Patriot Act and similar
legislation passed in other countries which spell
the official arrival of a Big Brother society.
However, Hilary ends on a postive note as she describes
the fast growing grass-roots activist movements
that are countering this oppression. |
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| This article is in 3 parts: |
| Part 1: Meeting
the Global Corporate Police State |
| Part 2: If Pain
Persists, See Your Spin Doctor |
| Part 3: New Solutions
for a Sick Society |
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Part 1 |
Meeting the Global Corporate Police State |
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| SOCIETY UNRAVELLING |
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| Only a totalitarian
society would even claim absolute safety as
a worthy ideal, because it would require total
state control over its citizens' lives. Freedom
is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined
by the ability of citizens to live without
government interference. |
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| US Congressman
Ron Paul, in his column Texas Straight
Talk in August 2004 |
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| It was a short visit to the US, but already I was
getting used to standing in endlessly long airline
boarding lines. I am a white middle aged woman in amongst
people of all colours, waved into a special line destined
for special attention because of my "foreign" ID.
Once American, I have long ago adopted and been adopted
by Australia, the 'Lucky Country". |
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| We waited, all of us stockinged or barefoot, looking
pained and embarrassed. Surrounded by black suited
unfriendly paramilitary looking men and officials with
rubber gloves. Up ahead an Hispanic child of barely
three, was being searched, her teddy bear falling to
the ground. Rough hands retrieve it and probe the bear
deeply for contraband. None is found. The child cries.
The line is painfully slow. The linoleum chills my
feet. My facial expression must betray my distaste.
People talk in whispers. People glance around to spot
the camera, careful to hide their mouth from the prying
lens. A black man helps me to understand; " nine
eleven " he whispers barely audibly. Others join
in. |
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| Stories cautiously seep out whenever I stand in line
with others. We begin an impromptu sociology lesson
101. Somebody's friend with an Arabic name was arrested
and disappeared for weeks, but never charged. Somebody
else knew of a teacher who taught the Constitution
in her classroom, and was censured. A student shared
his political views in a classroom and was visited
by the FBI. A person was detained for reading an airport
novel that featured a gun on its cover. While somebody's
sister was in jail for a minor offence her child was
taken to a foster home by the authorities. Surely that
can't be right", I say from my white middle aged
Australian perspective. Laughs all round. "You
got no money, you go to jail, man. It's da rules," explains
a brown man with dreadlocks. |
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| I later discover that of the 80,000 women now in
US jails, about 70 percent are nonviolent offenders.
And 75 percent of them have children. Entire archipelagos
of prisons all over the world are owned by private
corporations. Business is booming. Their share prices
are going through the roof, a good investment for the
rich. Multinational prison corporations have built
and operated Australian detention centers where we,
in the once lucky country, incarcerate refugees from
the third world. There are two million people in US
prisons: the highest prison population in the world.
More than in Russia.(6) Of
those; 70% are illiterate, 50% are African Americans,
80% are drug users and alcoholics mixed in with the
homeless, the mentally ill and non-violent offenders.
The prison corporations offer no treatment for the
sick or help for the homeless. On the contrary, the
sick and poor are mixed in with a genuine assortment
of sociopaths. |
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| The people I
put in jail have more honor than the top administration
in this organization. |
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| Bob Hoffman,
ATF agent, interview with Mike Wallace, on 60
Minutes, 1993-Jan |
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| FINAL BOARDING CALL |
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| Since the Feds
took over, Grandmothers are being frisked,
the modesty of young girls violated, belts,
shoes, coats, shirts and other clothing removed
in public, innocent people arrested because
they grimace at the wrong person, delays, searches
and missed flights. I once was subjected to
having my bare ankles fondled by a guard before
being allowed on a plane. I guess looking at
them was not enough. To this day I wonder how
he thought I had imbedded some weapon under
the skin and how I planned to have such a weapon
removed for use. |
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| Dr. Linda Johnstone
MD |
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| My boarding call is announced. I am relieved when
the line shortens. It is my turn. I am waved up to
a table by two rubber gloved uniformed persons. I notice
that rubber gloves are very popular these days. I am
motioned to stand with legs wide apart, my arms extended.
The large male spills my bag's contents onto a nearby
table. My money purse bursts open. Coins spill out.
A dime rolls and stops at my bare feet. On it I see
the word "Liberty". I reflexively reach out
to prevent the contents of my bag from scattering on
the floor. The large male shoots out his hand motioning
me to stop. His other hand dives toward his belt which
bristles with some kind of paraphernalia. I stand to
attention again. The trigger happy moment is over. |
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| The female begins her search. She pats me down thoroughly,
pausing at my crutch to ensure I haven't stashed a
weapon of mass destruction there. After she is satisfied,
the female produces a cotton swab, the kind used to
remove women's makeup. She swabs carefully around the
perimeter edge of my rucksack and places the swab into
a machine nearby. I am told to stand there. No one
explains what is happening. I wonder what they're looking
for. I take a brief inventory. Had I visited a botanical
garden recently? Could I have traces of fertilizer
on my bag? Could my bag have been contaminated by someone
else's? What happens to the millions of passengers
that are now driving instead of flying? Will road blocks
and barricades be erected? Will grandmothers and little
girls be frisked at the roadside? |
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| Still standing to attention, I wondered what had
happened to the America of my childhood and teenage
years. Family picnics in the park. There was terrorism
in the world then. But Kennedy presided over a Whitehouse
without barricades. 9/11 is now the answer to all questions.
But no one yet has satisfactorily answered the question
about who really caused it. One thing is for sure.
It has unleashed a global siege. |
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| THE PATRIOT ACT |
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| I pondered on my rights and wondered by whose authority
I was required to stand here in a hostage position
when I had done nothing wrong. I had boarded scores
of flights before 2001, but suddenly everything changed.
Now I was treated like a suspect and so was the little
three year old girl ahead of me and her teddy bear. |
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| Then I remembered that barely 45 days after 9/11
the 350 page Patriot Act had been written and passed
by Congress without anyone but Ron Paul and a few African
American Congressional representatives reading it.
Politicians might be exempted from reading laws, however
citizens are required to memorize the 100,000 new laws
passed each year in the US, because "ignorance
of the law is no defense". The long arms of the
Patriot Act claims to have powers over not just Americans
but over all people in all countries of the world.
The people of the world need to start reading. As for
me, now seemed a good opportunity to recap the legislation. |
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| There's no way
to rule innocent men. The only power any government
has is the power to crack down on criminals.
When there aren't enough criminals one makes
them. One declares so many things to be a crime
that it becomes impossible for men to live
without breaking laws. Just pass the kind of
laws that can neither be observed nor enforced
nor objectively interpreted - and you create
a nation of law-breakers. |
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| Adolph
Hitler in Mein Kampf |
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| I remembered that the Patriot Act required me to
refrain from attacking, setting fire to or disabling
mass transportation systems, and spreading toxins or
biological or radioactive weapons of mass destruction.
The Act states that I must also refrain from attacking
nuclear facilities and carrying a weapon, including
a nail clipper onto an airplane. So far that wasn't
going to be difficult for me. |
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| The Patriot Act II, however, exempts corporations
from the penalties of those very acts. And they are
not required to disclose information about toxins,
biological or radioactive substances. Furthermore,
any person interfering, even unintentionally with any
supply, computer or pipeline to US facilities in or
around any of the thousands of US bases (or US corporations)
stationed around the world on the sovereign soil of
other countries would be classed as an "enemy combatant" and
deemed guilty of terrorism. They may be indefinitely
detained, without charges, trial, or reasonable cause. |
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| That also includes people being in the wrong place
at the wrong time such as the captured children under
the age of 16 who find themselves indefinitely captive
in Guantanamo Bay. It was dawning on me that the networks
of prisons around the globe for "enemy combatants",
just like Guantanamo, were courtesy of the Patriot
Act. It seems there are no more prisoners-of-war under
the Geneva Convention. And torture is now allowed. |
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| The terrorism
Information and Prevention System, or TIPS,
means the US will have a higher percentage
of citizen informants than the former East
Germany through the infamous STASI secret Police.
The program would use a minimum of 4% of Americans
to report 'suspicious' activity. |
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| Sydney
Morning Herald July 14, 2002 |
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| The Patriot Act also requires me to report anyone
I know who might be intending to do anything "intimidating" to
the US Government, or even thinking about it. This
requires special clairvoyant skills, but the penalty
for not knowing what others are thinking is a stiff
10 years in a US federal penitentiary. In addition,
if anyone in any other country in the world thinks
about those things, I am required to report them to
the US authorities. They can then be spied on in their
own country with the aid of local-version anti-terrorist
legislation which many countries have now passed through
their Parliaments. It is designed to dovetail perfectly
with the Patriot Act, empowering it over the peoples
of other countries without anyone having discussed
it, voted for it or consented to its powers. It seems
that the sovereign nations of the world are deemed
to be ruled under a foreign power. Perhaps it's time
for a referendum to find out what the people say-while
it's still legal to vote. |
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| The more laws
that are written, the more criminals are produced. |
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| Lao
Tzu, Tao Te Ching |
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| Suspects under the Act can be removed from their
own country to the US or to any unknown whereabouts,
and have their assets seized. (Echoes of Guantanamo
again: creating a prison planet for thought crimes,
as foretold by Orwell.) If I should reveal the location
where persons are secretly held without a trial, I
could also be deemed a terrorist, and the penalty can
be death. If I fail to report anyone thinking or talking
about "intimidating" the US, I can have my
own assets seized under section 806 of the Patriot
Act, no matter where I live in the world. I have a
demanding day job, but suddenly I realized we have
all been recruited as part of the global police. This
includes any action that "could result
in a foreseeable risk", anytime before the Act
became law. I'm beginning to realize, as I stand barefoot
in the airport, how high maintenance this law really
is. I have to think back 40 years or so. It'll take
some time. Oh but wait there's more; the Act requires
a DNA sample from anyone thinking about conspiring.
That means a person is guilty of a crime by the mere
thought of it. That's a lot of samples. |
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| Then there's the ban on "domestic terrorism".
That is any act that "appears intended to
intimidate or coerce a civilian population". (I
wondered whether that search of my groin was classed
as "intimidating".) The Act also prohibited
influencing government policy by "intimidation".
Theoretically, that included the activities of Greenpeace.
However, it was still legal for corporate lobby groups
to "influence Government policy" by buying
politicians. |
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| "Domestic terrorism" is also defined as "affecting
government conduct by mass destruction, assassination
or kidnapping". I wondered whether the invasion
of Iraq was in breach of the Patriot Act. Patriot II,
the horror sequel to Patriot I, expands in SECTION
403 the definition of "weapons of mass destruction" as
including any activity that affects US interstate commerce
or US exports. Looks like corporations had moved into
the seat of government when nobody was looking. |
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| police state — A
nation whose rulers maintain order and obedience
by the threat of police or military force:
one with a brutal, arbitrary government. |
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| Dictionary
of Cultural Literacy 3 rd Edition. |
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| The machine gave my swab a green light and I was
free to gather the disheveled contents of my rucksack
and board the aircraft. Thanks to the Patriot Act,
my fellow travelers and all Americans could feel so
much safer now that my groin was searched. |
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| You know, a long
time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays
everybody's crazy. |
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| Charles Manson,
serial killer and one time cult leader. |
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Part 2 |
If Pain Persists, See Your Spin Doctor |
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| MEETING DR. SPOOK |
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| We live in a
dirty and dangerous world. There are some things
the general public does not need to know, and
shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when
the government can take legitimate steps to
keep its secrets and when the press can decide
whether to print what it knows. |
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| The
late Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington
Post |
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| The commercial flight was full and heavy, but the
pilot executed a perfect takeoff. I sat next to a terse
looking man in his early 40's with a slightly grown
out US military buzz-cut. We were in it for the long
haul. |
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| Before too long I realized he knew more about the
effects of flying on the human body than even a commercial
pilot. The hours ticked by. He consumed a bottle of
Aussie Red. He seemed familiar with Australia; not
Sydney or Melbourne, but the remote terrain of central
Australia, near the bases. We talked about the Iraq
invasion. |
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"The liberation? It's good for the Aussies. We
don't buy French wines any more".
It was the first time he'd laughed.
"But polls show that the Australian public doesn't want the war." I argued.
But I knew by now, that we spoke a different language.
He gave another brittle laugh as though I'd just made
a joke. It was clear he considered the concept of electors
as ludicrous and irrelevant. To his view there was
no connection between what the voters want and what
the government does.
"What's the problem?" he asked, "we [the US] paid for the Aussie
planes anyway and they [the Aussies] get the reconstruction contracts."
Silence. We retreated into our corners for a while
pretending to sleep. Both of us had already quite accurately
sized the other up. |
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| I spent 33 years
in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class
muscle man for Big Business. |
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| Smedley
D. Butler, Major General US Marines |
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| The hidden hand
of the market will never work without a hidden
fist - McDonalds cannot flourish without McDonnell
Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden
fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon
Valley's technologies is called the United
States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. |
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| Thomas
Friedman New York Times Magazine March 28,
1999 |
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He asked me where my ultimate destination was. I
lied. And he knew it. I told him I was invited to give
a talk. That part was true. He asked me about my work.
I told him. "A writer on the politics of the health
care industry, among other things; exploding the myths."
"What do you mean?" his interest was sparked.
Briefly overcome by the pointlessness of sharing my
views with him, I continued anyway. |
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| "How strange is it that 'they' tell us that the
world population is still growing out of control when
the West has had close to zero population growth for
many years now and up to 80% of Africa and Asia are
infected with HIV and dying of AIDS, famine and war?" He
pretended disinterest but cocked his head toward me.
I continued. "How strange is it that 'they' tell
us that our life expectancy is increasing because of
good health care, when cancer is raging in epidemic
proportions, nearly 42% of Americans will die of heart
disease and western medical care has moved up to being
the number one killer in the west.(8,9) Asthma,
allergies, autoimmune disorders have risen by 40%,
AIDS, and other epidemics old and new rage out of control.
Obesity, mental illness, Alzheimer's, addiction and
suicides are epidemic, a quarter of children in the
West and most in the Third World now live in poverty
without basic necessities and medical care. Doesn't
anyone die from these? In addition 86% of US children
cannot pass a standard fitness test. Isn't it manifestly
obvious that life expectancy is increasing neither
in the US nor the rest world?" |
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He had developed a slight facial twitch. "You're
wrong." He said, "dead wrong."
"I'm right," I said stubbornly.
"No you're not," he said. "I was an analyst for the Pentagon. I analyze
information."
There, he'd actually said it. I stopped a while to
take it in.
"What do you do to the information" I asked, not expecting a reply. |
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| The CIA is well
placed throughout the American business scene
as well as in the national media. |
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| Doug
Fedor in A weekly view from the foothills of
Appalachia 27/6/99 |
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"Where did you get your information
from?" he asked ignoring my question.
"It's out there in the public domain." I quoted a few studies. "Since
big Pharma and corporations took over health care, it's been killing people… millions," I
said defiantly. |
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"Are you out there saying that in public?" he
demanded.
"Sure, "I said.
"You can't go out there and say that," he repeated.
"But it's true," I insisted.
"You've got no proof," he challenged. |
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| It is a government
by the Corporations for the Corporations. |
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| Ruthford
B Hayes 19 th US President |
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"Consider some proven facts about US health care
and join the dots", I said. I quoted sources that
the US, whose health care system is monopolized by
corporations, has the worst infant mortality rate compared
to 23 other wealthy countries whose health care system
is still in partly in public hands. "US health
care corporations are a powerful lobby and generous
financial benefactors to politicians on Capitol Hill,
and with this flood of cash, the US has nearly the
lowest life expectancy of 23 other wealthy countries.
The US has 5 % of the world's population and it spends
45% of the world's health dollars. Despite this, Americans'
life expectancies are the lowest of 23 other wealthy
nations' and lower than some Third World countries
like Costa Rica."(1,2,4,5)
"But not for long," I speculated. "Globalization is exporting this
model to the rest of the world."
He seemed agitated, but I had to finish.
"This can only mean that corporate health care creates sickness, disability
and death, and profits from it." I said. |
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"You can't say that," he hissed.
"Yes I can," I answered.
"No you can't," he repeated more grimly.
"Why not?"
"Because… " He hesitated, searching for the right words. "It's
classified." |
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| A long silence came between us. He sipped the last
drop of red from his plastic airline cup. I sat back
in my seat trying to look relaxed. Perhaps it was foolish
of me, I thought. But at least I found out who "they" are. |
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| But that's the
whole point of corporatization: to try to remove
the public from making decisions over their
own fate, to limit the public arena, to comtol
opinion, to make sure that the fundamental
decisions that determine how the wolrld is
going to be run — which includes production,
commerce, distribution, thought, social policy,
foreign policy, everything, — are not
in the hands of the public, but rather in the
hands of highly concentrated private power.
In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public. |
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| Noam
Chomsky in interview with Corporate Watch |
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Part 3 |
New Solutions for a Sick Society |
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| Our Members have
seen and experienced the erosion of basic human
rights in their respective federal, state and
local communities. We understand that this
erosion has occurred with the consent of the
community by its acquiescence to bad statute
laws. The spirit of a community that consents
or acquiesces to bad statute laws is sick.
There is abundant evidence to show that the
spirit of our community is sick… we are
the healers of the spirit of our community. |
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| Malcolm
McClure as quoted on his website www.upmart.org |
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| Each day the silent global epidemic of official brutality
escalates. Such crimes are seldom reported, but citzen's
groups now track their numbers. |
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| On my return from overseas I was determined to track
the people's response to the emerging global police
state and its volumes of oppressive statute legislation.
I soon discovered a rising tide of activism that already
far exceeds the 60's decade; citizen's grass roots
activism, social justice and human rights activism,
student activism, scientist activism, consumer activism,
democracy in action, truth in media, truth in medicine,
corporate watch, even Islamic activism. The global
trend is steeply on the rise. And it is changing to
suit the times. |
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| There has been an increasing shift to personal empowerment
whereby ordinary persons create the changes they would
like to see in the world. Surprising numbers are emboldened
because the level of systemic corruption has become
blindingly obvious and almost all voters now know that
politicians undemocratically pass laws without their
consent. Increasingly more people are finding it impossible
to acquiese to laws they find repugnant. Increasingly
Social Justice Groups are rediscovering the principles
of natural law and the community traditions
of common law, (as defined by the Oxford
Dictionary as "that which derives its force
and authority from the universal consent and immemorial
practice of the community"). Common law movements
gather around the world, addressing social, political
and judicial injustice. |
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| One such movement was started in Australia by Malcolm
McClure who has frequently challenged statute laws
successfully. He now conducts seminars and classes
around the country which assist and support persons
who stand up for their primary human rights. Malcolm
McClure refers to his common law movement as UPMART,
a fellowship of "like-minded electors, united in
common causes, who uphold, protect, and live their
inalienable human rights". He emphatically states
that under common law, natural law, constitutional
law and the tenets of basic human rights, "No
statute law can come between you and your primary rights".
The movement has found kindred spirits in the thousands
who have subsequently been emboldened to stand up for
their rights in many diverse areas. |
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| MENTAL HEALTH vs. MENTAL HELL |
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| Evil requires
the sanction of the victim. |
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| Ayn
Rand |
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| There is an outbreak of repressive mental health
laws being passed around the world that is reducing
accountability and transparency, seemingly empowering
the corporate state to incarcerate individuals indefinitely
in order to force drugs and treatments upon them that
can cause permanent brain damage.(12) |
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| Mandatory mental health screening has recently been
introduced in some US States, which activists fear
will also lead to more involuntary drug treatments.(10,11) Increasingly,
more health conditions are now included under the "mental
health" umbrella, where statute laws abound. The
result has been a shocking betrayal of trust. Increasingly,
children and teenagers who once merely needed drug
and alcohol treatment are now funnelled into the mental
health system and often end up on long term psychiatric
drugs instead of the recreational drugs they were attempting
to withdraw from. The Citizens Commission on Human
Rights among other watchdogs investigate and expose
psychiatric violations of human rights. All report
a significant increase in complaints of psychiatric
abuse. |
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| Of all the forms
of inequality, injustice in health is the most
shocking and the most inhumane. |
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| Martin
Luther King, Junior |
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| A 17-year-old Australian boy had been smoking marijuana
on a regular basis during his final year of school.
He had been a well-liked straight-A student. The boy
and his mother sought help from staff at a nearby drug
and alcohol centre who told them that pot "won't
hurt him". Still concerned, the mother took her
son to the local doctor. The GP referred him to a visiting
psychiatrist, who began to prescribe psychiatric drugs
to the boy. Within weeks the psychiatrist placed the
boy into the mental health system. Once there, he was
heavily drugged. Within 2 years the boy was permanently
institutionalised and given dozens of shock treatments,
without his mother's consent. Later he had paddle shaped
electrical burns on his upper abdomen from the shock
treatment. |
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| For the past 7 years he has been institutionalised
and drugged into a stupor with strong psychiatric drugs.
The boy, now a man of 24, remains imprisoned in the
mental health system, while his general health has
deteriorated appallingly. Mostly heavily drugged, he
shakes and trembles between rigid spasms. Effectively
unable to communicate, he shuffles unsteadily when
on his feet. The remaining time he sleeps stuporously
for hours on end. The psychiatric facility has refused
to allow outside medical treatment for him. In his
GPs opinion, the young man may now be irreparably brain
damaged. His mother has now taken common law steps
to address her son's psychiatric abuse, and to provide
the necessary medical measures required to treat the
damage done to her son. |
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| The Common Law Power of Withholding Consent |
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| Another example of this abuse is an 18 year old Sydney
boy had been smoking marijuana on a regular basis since
he'd left his parent's home to live independently.
After a year he found it increasingly difficult to
hold down a job and agreed to get help. His parents
were fully medically insured, and encouraged their
son to enter a private clinic rather than a state run
drug rehab, assuming that the treatment would be better.
The clinic was part of a multinational chain of medical
and psychiatric facilities. |
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| In an extraordinary display of motivation the young
man had already abstained from drugs for four days
prior to the day of his admission. He entered the facility
clean, sober and motivated to stay that way. |
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| On the mother's subsequent visits she was disturbed
that her son had been so heavily drugged he was barely
rouseable. On questioning him, she learnt the staff
had insisted he take the drugs. The mother, a registered
nurse, discovered he was receiving Valium and a strong
antipsychotic drug, in addition to the extra "sleeping" medication
the psychiatrist had prescribed. Since her son had
never had a psychiatric illness and because of his
other physical allergies she contacted her GP who wrote
a letter to the psychiatrist stating that the boy had
a range of sensitivities and could not tolerate large
amounts of drugs or unnecessary ones. He reiterated
that the purpose of the boy's admission was detoxification. |
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| The mother also enquired of two other public detoxification/rehabilitation
centres. Off the record she was told that the corporate
hospital chains were known to prescribe large amounts
of drugs whereas the public hospital rehab used drugs
sparingly, only to assist with severe withdrawals.
However, the charity run centre used no drugs at all.
The mother arranged for a conference with the facility's
psychiatrist, herself, and her son, wherein she presented
the GP's letter. The psychiatrist took little notice
of the doctor's letter and appeared to resent the mother's
presence, reminding her that the son was now 18, the
age of majority. However the son himself requested
no more drugs be prescribed for him, as he was motivated
to get clean. |
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| A few days later the couple took their son out on
leave from the clinic to a nearby restaurant. With
difficulty the young man related that far from decreasing
the drugs, the staff insisted they had the right to
medicate him, anytime they considered it necessary,
with any drug they deemed necessary. Moreover, the
son told them that the psychiatrist had presented him
with a written agreement to that effect that very morning,
which the young man had had the presence of mind not
to sign before consulting with a trusted friend or
relative, even in his mind altered state. |
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| The parents were familiar with common law rights
and informed their son that they considered he was
in clear danger of being forcibly drugged and hospitalised
if he signed such a document in that treatment facility.
The mother urged her son to leave the facility immediately
and return home with them. To the parent's dismay their
son refused at that time, telling them he wanted to "handle
it myself". |
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| Later that evening the boy left the treatment facility
and travelled home on public transport. He had not
signed any documents giving his own consent to possible
involuntary incarceration at the mental health facility.
The parents were able to convey to the befuddled boy
that his consent was a powerful legal instrument not
to be given lightly, and not without consulting with
a trusted advisor first. |
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| This boy recovered and remains well. Scores of others
are not so lucky. Many psychiatric abuses begin after
voluntary consent is given. It then continues by the
system's statute provisions. Most people are still
unaware of the system's capability to betray and abuse
human rights. It is now more important than ever to
investigate health care facilities thoroughly before
entrusting a loved one to their care. |
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| SCHOOL SYSTEM |
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| Because they
don't teach the truth about the world, schools
have to rely on beating students over the head
with propaganda about democracy. If schools
were, in reality, democratic, there would be
no need to bombard students with platitudes
about democracy. They would simply act and
behave democratically, and we know this does
not happen. The more there is a need to talk
about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic
the system usually is. |
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| Noam Chomsky,
American writer and liberal intellectual. |
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| If the upsurge in parent activist internet sites
is anything to go by, then parents in Developed Countries
are increasingly disturbed by a school system that
resembles a prison; a system that pushes junk food
and soda, political propaganda and social conditioning
onto their children. Increasingly parents note the
absence of freedom of thought at schools. |
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| Also lacking are Constitutional studies which would
inform children of their inalienble rights and of the
fact that in a democracy, government is at the service
of the people and not the other way around. A South
Australian common law UPMART group, is reversing that
trend in that State by reintroducing the Australian
Constitution back into the school curriculum. |
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| … [W]hat
shall be the supreme law of the land… only
laws that are made in pursuance of the constitution
have that rank… All
laws repugnant to the Constitution are void
of law. |
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| Marbury
v. Madison, 5 US 137 at Sec. 180, (1803) |
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| STEALING OUR CHILDREN |
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| We have legal
custody of the children and we will do with
them as we see fit. |
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| Susan Etscovitz,
an agent of the Massachusetts Department of
Social Services as reported in the Daily News
Tribune, "Bryant's story goes national",
2003-Jun-20, by Melissa Beecher) |
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| Stories abound of children dying in the care of abusive
parents after child welfare authorities were notified
and failed to take action. However, the darker side
of government child welfare authorities is rarely publicized. |
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| Australian authorities made an 11 year-old-girl a
ward of the Court after an oncologist called in the
authorities when the family was still deciding whether
to consent to chemotherapy. The child had chemo forcibly
administered while being confined and guarded in a
hospital for two months. A Supreme Court Judge ordered
this forced treatment on the strength of the oncologist's
opinion. However the doctor could not show any evidence
supporting the validity of his treatment. The family
made several efforts to stop the forced treatment which
they considered medical abuse, but they were unsuccessful
in this despite having spent their savings on lawyer's
fees. The child's father joined a common law movement
and represented the child's interests in Court himself,
where he reinstated his and his wife's parental rights.(24) |
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| SICKNESS INDUSTRY ABUSING PRACTITIONERS THROUGH
REGULATORS |
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| The Big Pharma lobby has increasingly infiltrated
government policy.(25) Since
then there has been an unprecedented attack on the
use of natural, non drug based therapies, as well as
on its providers. New health care laws give powers
of search and seizure to medical boards and health
care watchdogs. This might be understandable if the
police-state powers were being used to ferret out sleazy
or quack doctors and incompetent practitioners. Perhaps
not surprisingly, however, the power of these laws
is now arbitrarily used to harass and abuse qualified
doctors and other health professionals practicing natural,
alternative or integrative health care.(14) The
internet abounds with Health Freedom activists who
are now tracking this official abuse of practitioners.
However, Tim Bolen, one such advocate publicises the
increasing numbers of practitioners who successfully
stand up to authorities.(18) Though
abuses still abound, some success stories are emerging. |
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| Last year an Australian naturopath was allegedly
raided by a government team who searched the practitioner's
private belongings. The quiet, elderly health professional
was overwhelmed and devastated by the raid allegedly
conducted by 18 uniformed goons.(15) |
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| Most recently another notable Australian physician
who'd achieved excellent clinical results treating
patients with nutrient supplements and dietary measures
was targeted by the medical regulators in his state.
He had been officially harassed for several years.
But when confronted by the Board's police-type powers
he "voluntarily" consented to his retirement
instead of mounting what he anticipated would be a
costly and stressful legal action.(16) |
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| Standing up Against Official Abuse |
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| Another Australian doctor who successfully incorporates
natural medicine into his busy practice was targeted
by his state's Medical Board on the basis of issues
such as a complaint made by an habitual complainant
who has been mentioned in Parliament as a person who
deliberately and systematically lays complaints specifically
against alternative practitioners. The Medical Board
used this bogus complaint in an attempt to use its
police type powers to gain entry to the doctor's premises.
The Board's representatives were stopped on the day
because the doctor insisted the Board demonstrate a
reasonable cause and a proper reason as to their authority
to enter his premises. The Board was unable to do this.
The Doctor remains an ardent constitutional law and
social justice advocate.(17) |
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| Today we kneel
only to truth. |
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| Kahil Gibran |
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| POLICE OR ARMY? |
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| Whenever the
legislators endeavor to take away and destroy
the property of the people, or to reduce them
to slavery under arbitrary power, they put
themselves into a state of war with the people,
who are thereupon absolved from any further
obedience. |
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| John Locke |
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| Since 9/11, law enforcement, using non-lethal weapons
and riot paraphernalia, has now acquired the militaristic
image of an occupying army. Even in developed countries
the police, once employed to uphold community rights
and safety, now attempt to use brutality to suppress
lawful activities such as the right to dissent. Each
day in the world the silent epidemic of official brutality
escalates. Most such crimes are never reported, but
citizen's groups are closely tracking their numbers.
And as the lyrics go, it appears that growing numbers
of ordinary folk are "mad as hell and not gonna'
take it any more". |
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| The principles of common law are being applied to
many settings. In July 2004 police attempted to herd
demonstrators protesting against repression of civil
liberties at the Democratic National Convention in
Boston, into an area enclosed by netting, chain link
fence and barbed wire. With 5000 police, army reservists
and Feds prowling the vicinity and helicopters circling
overhead, many demonstrators said the area looked like
a concentration camp. By all accounts, the city of
Boston was mading its début as a police state.
Some demonstrators refused to enter the area that authorities
had ironically called the "free speech zone".(19) Many
demonstrators acquiesced to being herded into the barbed
wire enclosure, although vocally complained about it
afterwards. However, a large number did not consent.
They powerfully exercised their simple common law right
to withhold consent to an injustice. The importance
of that event eclipsed the other events of the day. |
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| Routine law enforcement has also taken a more sinister
turn. A middle-aged Fijian couple from Sydney 's inner
west drove their van to a business meeting early in
2004. The police stopped the van and issued a minor
traffic infringement to the husband who was driving.
Moments after the woman took the wheel, the police
stopped them again for the same infringement. |
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| The woman explained that the infringement had already
been issued once and in any case they intended to go
to Court to argue the matter. (This kind of police
harassment where persons are stopped repeatedly for
the same matter is known as "hunting"). A short
but polite discussion ensued during which time police
called backups. Within minutes seven police cars surrounded
the couple's van with 15 officers attending the couple
for a minor offence. Within minutes, an officer smashed
the van's semi open window and two police officers
pulled the woman from the van. The beefy young officers
descended on her until she fell to the ground. She
was left on the roadside, with a fractured shoulder
and bleeding from glass cuts. Two eye witnesses corroborated
the event. The couple is currently taking their first
steps toward legal action against the police involved.(20) |
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| A feisty, middle-aged Melbourne woman was stopped
in 2003 by a police officer and cited on an alleged
minor traffic violation. She told him she was quite
prepared to argue the matter of the infringement in
Court but took exception to what she regarded as the
officer's acting beyond the powers of his jurisdiction.
The officer seemed incensed that she had not been intimidated
by his display of power. This led to a hunting campaign
against the woman, involving at least 17 separate occasions
when police stopped her. One officer waylaid her vehicle
five times and another one on four occasions. On most
occasions, officers reached into her car in an attempt
to detain her further, after she had given them the
necessary details and was ready to drive away. |
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| Since then the woman has represented herself at least
nine times in Court on the matter. Three occasions
were in the Supreme Court. The woman had no prior legal
training, but used the basic principles of common law
that she had learnt from the UPMART workshops she had
attended.(21) She brought
charges against the police whom she believes have harassed
her. Her cross examination of a police officer on the
witness stand turned out to be a harrowing experience
for him. She maintains an articulate legal argument
based on her deeply held belief that she is entitled
to exercise her primary rights, and is unwilling to
acquiesce to injustice. |
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| An inalienable
human right is a right that is with you at
all times, it is a part of you and cannot be
separated from you. It is a right that cannot
be granted to you by man or governments. Inalienable
rights are intrinsic to our existence. Inalienable
rights are bestowed by the creator of creation,
and cannot be granted by an earthly authority.
They, who seek permission from a court to live
an inalienable human right, are seeking permission
from persons who are pretending to have the
authority over that right. |
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| Malcolm
McClure |
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| FREE PEOPLE ZONE |
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| The evidence
of things unseen. There is rising a new movement
in the world. It is bigger than the movement
of the 1960s. Yet it is barely seen by the
experts and analysts. They look only at the
behavior of institutions and politicians, not
the underlying forces that eventually burst
into visibility. |
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| Tom Hayden,
Evidence of Things Unseen: The Rise of a New
Movement. ZNet October 23, 2003 |
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| Increasingly institutions and corporations are being
held to account. Malcolm McClure's UPMART movement
is currently assisting health care consumers to require
doctors to provide accurate information about vaccination
and other procedures or they may be liable for damages.
Increasingly, class actions are gathering — on
behalf of vaccine damaged children, children unlawfully
taken from their parents, consumers who demand their
right to natural treatments, practitioners officially
harassed by the health authorities. |
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| One UPMART class action, UCAR, sets out to ensure
the rights of persons to be represented by the person
of their choice, intended to make legal representation
fair and affordable.(22) Meanwhile
alternative co-operatives are emerging: alternative
motor vehicle registry, banking and insurance facilities.
There has been an increase in the numbers of self-sufficient
communities that rely on their own resources and legal
instruments. |
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| It appears that these are ideas whose time has come.
Meanwhile Malcolm McClure has been asked to bring his
common law tools to other countries including the US,
New Zealand and Thailand. |
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| With the help of a compliant mainstream media, governments
blindly continue to create reams of laws that seek
to enslave humanity in "Free Trade" Zones".
Meanwhile, the world's people are creating a thick
global network of "Free People Zones", where
millions of people are joined by the spirit of their
collective values. They create their own media, literature,
food, conservation projects, healing centers, technology
and politics. In the US, over 300 cities and four States
have passed resolutions to have the Patriot Act repealed. |
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Around the world, individuals, entire communities,
fellowships and emerging activist movements have put
governments on notice that constitutional laws and
human rights will not be violated in their area. |
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| Copyright © 2004
Eve Hillary |
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| References |
1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
2 http://www.eriposte.com/…
3 http://chanco.com/myth.html
4 http://www.healthpromoting.com/…
5 http://www.holistichealthtopics.com/…
6 http://www.charleston.net/…
7 San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP) terror suspects under age 16 are being
held at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay.
8 http://www.healingwithnutrition.com
9 Death By Medicine, Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, et al.
10 http://www.newswithviews.com/…
11 http://www.ctono.freeserve.co.uk/… New
UK Mental Health Act - direct from hell.
12 Confidential interviews with 2 parents of
children who have suffered permanent damage from psychiatric
treatments they have had forced on them by the mental
health system.
13 http://www.cchr.org
14 Conclusions from analysis of NSW medico legal
data, court transcripts and record.
15 Confidential source wishes not to be identified.
16 Confidential source wishes not to be identified
17 Legal Documents from Medical Practitioner
wishing to remain unidentified.
18 http://www.bolenreport.com/
19 http://www.saveourcivilliberties.org/…
20 Information derived from legal documents,
medical reports and witnesses. Sources wish to remain
unidentified at this time.
21 http://www.upmart.org/
22 http://www.upmart.org/…
23 http://www.wired.com/…
24 DoCS-Stealing our Children for Medicine?-
Eve Hillary Published in "Living Now" Magazine
December 2003
25 The Other Drug War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington
Lobbyists, http://www.citizen.org/… |
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