THE HANDSTAND

NOVEMBER 2007

 shocking news!
To have a think-tank (a brain) is now a crime?

This is a direct confrontation with the 9/11 truth
movement in the U.S., which, if ratified, will see
widespread arrests of activists...


 
House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=4682
 


The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism. Amazingly, 404 of our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican parties voted in favor of this bill. There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.
 
First let’s take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill.
 
The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn’t specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done to destroy the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially they have defined violent radicalization as thought crime. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.
 
`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.
 
The definition of homegrown terrorism uses equally vague language to further define thought crime. The bill includes the planned use of force or violence as homegrown terrorism which could be interpreted as thinking about using force or violence. Not only that but the definition is so vaguely defined, that petty crimes could even fall into the category of homegrown terrorism. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.
 
`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
 
Section 899B of the bill goes over the findings of Congress as it pertains to homegrown terrorism. Particularly alarming is that the bill mentions the Internet as a main source for terrorist propaganda. The bill even mentions streams in obvious reference to many of the patriot and pro-constitution Internet radio networks that have been formed. It also mentions that homegrown terrorists span all ages and races indicating that the Congress is stating that everyone is a potential terrorist. Even worse is that Congress states in their findings that they should look at draconian police states like Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as models to defeat homegrown terrorists. Literally, these findings of Congress fall right in line with the growing patriot community.
 
The biggest joke of all is that this section also says that any measure to prevent violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism should not violate the constitutional rights of citizens. However, the definition of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as they are defined in section 899A are themselves unconstitutional. The Constitution does not allow the government to arrest people for thought crimes, so any promises not to violate the constitutional rights of citizens are already broken by their own definitions.
 
`SEC. 899B. FINDINGS.
 
`The Congress finds the following:
 
`(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.
 
`(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.
 
`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.
 
`(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.
 
`(5) Understanding the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence is a vital step toward eradicating these threats in the United States.
 
`(6) The potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily prevented through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and requires the incorporation of State and local solutions.
 
`(7) Individuals prone to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence span all races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, and individuals should not be targeted based solely on race, ethnicity, or religion.
 
`(8) Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.
 
`(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.
 
Section 899C calls for a commission on the prevention of violent radicalization and ideologically based violence. The commission will consist of ten members appointed by various individuals that hold different positions in government. Essentially, this is a commission that will examine and report on how they are going to deal with violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. So basically, the commission is being formed specifically on how to deal with thought criminals in the United States. The bill requires that the commission submit their final report 18 months following the commission’s first meeting as well as submit interim reports every 6 months leading up to the final report. Below is the bill’s defined purpose of the commission. Amazingly they even define one of the purposes of the commission to determine the causes of lone wolf violent radicalization.
 
(b) Purpose- The purposes of the Commission are the following:
 
`(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or `lone wolf' violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.
 
`(2) Build upon and bring together the work of other entities and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of--
 
`(A) the Center of Excellence established or designated under section 899D, and other academic work, as appropriate;
 
`(B) Federal, State, local, or tribal studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence; and
 
`(C) foreign government studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence.
 
Section 899D of the bill establishes a Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States. Essentially, this will be a Department of Homeland Security affiliated institution that will study and determine how to defeat thought criminals.
 
Section 899E of the bill discusses how the government is going to defeat violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism through international cooperation. As stated in the findings section earlier in the legislation, they will unquestionably seek the advice of countries with draconian police states like the United Kingdom to determine how to deal with this growing threat of thought crime.
 
Possibly the most ridiculous section of the bill is Section 899F which states how they plan on protecting civil rights and civil liberties while preventing ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism. Here is what the section says.
 
`SEC. 899F. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.
 
`(a) In General- The Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent ideologically-based violence and homegrown terrorism as described herein shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.
 
`(b) Commitment to Racial Neutrality- The Secretary shall ensure that the activities and operations of the entities created by this subtitle are in compliance with the Department of Homeland Security's commitment to racial neutrality.
 
`(c) Auditing Mechanism- The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer of the Department of Homeland Security will develop and implement an auditing mechanism to ensure that compliance with this subtitle does not result in a disproportionate impact, without a rational basis, on any particular race, ethnicity, or religion and include the results of its audit in its annual report to Congress required under section 705.'.
 
(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting at the end of the items relating to title VIII the following:
 
It states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.
 
This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.
   




"We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings,
to "pancake" at free fall speed. Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the
official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false."

— Paul Craig Roberts, PhD, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Ronald Reagan,
"Father of Reaganomics", Former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Currently Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research
Fellow at the Independent Institute. Former William E. Simon chair
in political economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University.  Former Senior Research Fellow,
Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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Key points

If you take virtually any aspect of 9/11 and scratch beneath the surface, you fairly quickly find problems with the 'official' story. We have tried to present
the clearest of these problems below:

1. The mysterious collapse of WTC building seven at 5:20 pm

Until recently, few people had seen video footage showing the collapse of the 47-storey WTC building seven. But the event was recorded from several different angles by the major US news networks. The collapse is clearly a controlled demolition, and an extremely professional one at that. Nothing else can explain the perfectly symmetrical collapse, at free-fall speed, onto its footprint.

Why was it demolished and who planted the explosives? Why do the FEMA and NIST reports try to explain the collapse based purely on impact damage from tower debris and randomly distributed fires? These effects would have weakened the supporting columns assymetrically, and that assymetry would have caused substantial tipping.

View the collapse as an mpeg video (if you have a slow connection, right-click on the link and select 'save target as' to download the file). Compare this collapse with the Hackney and Oslo demolitions carried out by Controlled Demolition Group Ltd.

Danny Jowenko, a Dutch demolition expert (www.jowenko.nl) was featured on a Dutch television program on 9/11. When shown video of the collapse of WTC building 7 he said it was clearly a controlled demolition - a very professional job (YouTube clip). He recently confirmed these comments over the telephone to "Pilots for 9/11 truth" (mp3). Read
more..

"WTC7 collapsed exactly like a house of cards. If the fires or damage in one corner had played a decisive role, the building would have fallen in that direction. You don't have to be a woodcutter to grasp this."

- Prof. Niels Harrit, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen



2. The explosive and complete disintegration of the WTC twin towers

Impressively, the towers hardly shook when they absorbed the impacts of the jet aircraft. They stood resolutely, just as they were designed to do. There was an initial fireball as jet fuel burned (much of it outside the buildings). This was followed by very subdued, thickly smoking, fires across a few floors as office contents burned with insufficient oxygen.

Yet incredibly, these massive steel structures (236 steel exterior columns and 47 steel interior columns connected by steel trusses) began to literally explode from the top down, and disintegrated completely in a matter of seconds.

Several different government-sponsored and independent theories have been put forward, attempting to explain how fires and impact damage alone caused the towers to collapse. These theories are contradictory and do not explain all the available evidence. They do not even fit with what we see in the video footage. The theory that best explains what we see, and other key evidence, is that explosives and thermite were used to bring down the buildings. Read more...

The bombs that exploded in the World Trade Center twin towers in New York yesterday were some of the biggest we have ever seen. "I would guess that close to a tonne of high explosives was required", says Bent Lund, a Danish explosives expert...
- B.T., 12 September 2001 (article in a Danish magazine - in Danish)
3. The mysterious exit hole inside the third ring of the Pentagon

This is 'Government Exhibit no. P200032' from the Moussaoui trial. It shows the exit hole made in ring C of the Pentagon. It is very difficult to explain how a passenger aircraft could penetrate 95 metres into the Pentagon and make such a compact, round exit hole. There were also columns in the 'firing line' that were virtually undamaged.
Read more...

It was reported that the plane hit the lawn firstand slid into the building, but photographs (1 2) reveal no significant marks on the lawn.

"The first time I saw the C-Ring exit hole, a chill went down my spine because I knew that the only way to cut a clean hole in a reinforced brick wall (including cutting through rebar) is with a shaped charge warhead. With any type impact or wave, forces would have caused the wall to crumble or cave in, without cutting through rebar."

- Michael Meyer, Mechanical Engineer, 10 June 2006
4. The 'official' flight 93 crash site is just a smoking hole in the ground

This is 'Government Exhibit no. P200057' from the recent Moussaoui trial in the US. The government claims that this is the point of impact for United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, when it crashed after passengers 'fought back'.

Why are there no major pieces of debris visible?

Click on the image to enlarge it and have a good look. How can a Boeing 757 just disappear on top of bare dirt? Use the cars in the image to judge the scale. The 'crater' is only about the size of 4 or 5 cars!

Take a look at this close-up, which featured in Popular Mechanic's Debunking 9/11 Myths, and this live TV footage on YouTube.

"[It looked] like someone took a scrap truck, dug a 10-foot ditch and dumped all this trash into it... I stopped being coroner after about 20 minutes, because there were no bodies there."
- Somerset county coroner Wallace Miller (Washington Post, 12 May 2002)
5. The complete failure to follow normal operating procedures and intercept the flights

The amazing success of the september 11 attacks required a miraculous level of 'good luck' for the alleged hijackers in terms of failures at so many levels in the American security and defence apparatus.

This cartoon portrays the blindness of the CIA and airport security. Even more amazing is the failure of the FAA and NORAD to work together in line with standard procedures to scramble jets and intercept the flights once it was clearly apparent they had been hijacked.


6. Several alleged hijackers are still alive


Several of the alleged suicide hijackers are still alive and were interviewed by mainstream newspapers after 9/11. The four pictured above were interviewed by the British Daily Telegraph, on 22 September 2001. Yet the list of 19 hijackers has never been 'corrected' and their names and images were still being used in the Mousaoui trial. None of the hijackers' names were included in the four official passenger lists. None of the hijackers allegedly on American Airlines flight 77 were listed among the bodies identified forensicallyat the Pentagon. What evidence is there that any of the alleged hijackers were even on the
flights?

"Last year, we got the final [9-11 Comission] report, an extensive, prosaically impressive report, but as some of us sat down to read it, the errors and omissions immediately jumped out at us. How was it that it took over an hour after the first transponder went off before planes were scrambled to meet the threat, all of them too late? What happened to those reports that surfaced within months of September 11th stating that seven or more of the alleged hijackers had come forward and claimed they were victims of stolen identities and were alive and well, living in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Tunisia? Why did the Commission choose not even to address this? What about Osama bin Laden and his role in the Mujahedin backed by the CIA in the 1980s to fight the Soviets? The Commission didn’t go there ... We cannot afford to shy away from inconvenient truths."
- Rep. Cynthia McKinney's opening statement at the July 22nd, 2005 Congressional Briefing