The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (60 page)

2008 White House staff list: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/2008stafflistsalary_title.html

Helping Hamas Terrorists

Presidential Determination: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-2488.htm

Mu’ammar Gadhafi: http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=96914

Obama’s “Civilian Army”

Civilian security force and word softening: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80539

ACORN and SEIU

David Brown describes attack on Kenneth Gladney: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/ will_obama_condemn_racist_unio.html

ACORN videos and backlash: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125271412822705239.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

ACORN blocked for HUD grants: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ANCH580&show_article=1

This corrupt organization: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_acorn

TIPS and Other Snoops

Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of the Revolution: Isabel Garcia-Zarza, “Big Brother at 40: Cuba’s revolutionary neighborhood watch system,” Reuters (October 12, 2000)

ACLU opposition to TIPS: Randolph E. Schmidt, “Postal Service Won’t Join TIPS Program,” Associated Press (July 17, 2002)

John Whitehead on government snoops: http://www.issues-views.com/index.php?print=1&article=23040

Tom Ridge did not want Americans spying on Americans: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,57874,00.html

TIPS website changes: http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/tips-changes.htm

Police chiefs endorse iWATCH program: http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2009-10-03-197785316_x.htm

Asset Forfeiture Fund

Informants pay, regulation, and AFF: Dennis G. Fitzgerald,
Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy, and Procedure
(Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007), p. 64

Representatives Henry Hyde and Bob Barr on property seizure: http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/forfeiture/

Chemtrails

John Holdren on shooting pollutants into the atmosphere: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/politics/ bam_man_cool_idea_block_sun_2Opipflho393Yi7gYoJLXP

Paul Crutzen on sending 747s: http://www.prisonplanet.com/secret-geo-engineering-projects-threaten-unknown-environmental-dangers.html; also see http://www.omega432.com/scalar.html

Global Swarming

Al Gore’s energy investments: http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1185475433.pdf

TCPR on Gore home’s electricity use: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_114979.asp

Al Gore equates warming critics to con man Bernie Madoff: http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/tag/al-gore/

Sam Kazman and destruction of CRU’s temperature data: http://cei.org/news-release/2009/10/05/govt-funded-research-unit-destroyed-original-climate-data

Alfred Lambremont Webre on dire news: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m5d23-Solar-cycle-24-solar-flares—social-collapse-or-crushing-cold-temperatures-and-global-famine

Human expiration declared health hazard: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/ epa_declares_carbon_dioxide_a.html

Richard S. Lindzen said CO
₂
is not a pollutant: http://www.populartechnology.net/2008/11/carbon-dioxide-co2-is-not-pollution.html

Nancy Pelosi on transformational legislation: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24232.html

Obama talks to NH students: http://www.barackobama.com/2007/04/20/ barack_obama_unveils_initiativ.php

A POLICE STATE

Model State Emergency Health Powers Act

Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/2002-07-22-states-healthlaw_x.htm

Military-grade anthrax: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/national/03POWD.html

Government Camps

History of repression in emergencies: Pamela Sebastian Ridge and Milo Geyelin, “Civil Liberties of Ordinary Americans May Erode—Legally—Because of Attacks,”
New York Times
(September 17, 2001)

Janet Reno’s remarks: Jim Burns, “William Bennett Hopes to Shape Public Opinion of War on Terrorism,” Cybercast News Service (March 12, 2002)

Durbin’s comments on torture: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425102/posts

Durbin apologizes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101654.html

Ashcroft a threat to liberties: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/14/opinion/oeturley14

KBR contract to build facilities: http://www.marketwatch.com story/kbr-awarded-homeland-security-contract-worth-up-to-385m?dateid=38741.5136277662-858254656

Camp FEMA

FEMA plans tent cities: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/14/214727.shtml

Detention camps: author’s interview with retired Lieutenant Colonel Craig Roberts, September 22, 2009.

Emergency centers on military installations: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h645/show

Virginia Fair grounds as emergency holding area: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/ MEAD15_20090914-215004/292878/

Army internment resettlement specialist: http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292

American Police Force

The American Police Force in Hardin, Montana: http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/62465902.html; also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5qL3Vi9H0

American Police Force’s “virtual office”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8705379

The American Police Force with Serbian logo: http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/index.html

Anonymous Hardin posting: http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=126560

Paul Joseph Watson on APF connected to Blackwater: http://www.prisonplanet.com/exposed-american-police-force-is-a-blackwater-front-group.html; http://www.prisonplanet.com/investigation-could-sink-american-police-force.html

Blogger William N. Grigg on paramilitary organization: http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/09/martial-law-is-their-business-and.html

The Posse Comitatus Act

The Phoenix Program: Douglas Valentine, “US Terrorist Attacks: Homeland Insecurity,”
Disinformation
(October 9, 2001); http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1631/pg1/index.html

The Third Infantry Division’s First Brigade Combat Team deployed in USA: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/

Military as panacea for domestic problems: Matthew Carlton Hammond, “The Posse Comitatus Act: A Principle in Need of Renewal,”
Washington University Law Quarterly
(Summer 1997)

Attack on Kingsville: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16957

101st Airborne in Troy, Tennessee: http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2009/09/23/101st-airborne-soldiers-to-conduct-air-assault-training-into-troy-tn/

Britt Snider and Garden Plot: Ron Ridenhour with Arthur Lubow, “Bringing the War Home,”
New Times
(November 28, 1975); http://www.namebase.org/ppost14.html

Cable Splicer and reactions: http://www.namebase.org/ppost14.html

Rex-84 testing military use against the civilian population: http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/fema/Fema_3.html

Diana Reynolds and William French Smith: Ibid.

Strategic Support Branch: http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/23/pentagon.intel/

Military recruiters denied, Representative Vitter and Jill Wynns: David Goodman, “No Child Unrecruited,”
Mother Jones
(November–December 2002)

Kindergartners disciplined: Editors, “‘Gun-Toting’ Tot Loses Suspension Suit,” Associated Press (May 1, 2002)

Ellen Schrecker and Nadine Strossen: http://www.progressive.org/0901/roth0102.html

Paul Proctor on snooping as un-American: http://www.newswithviews.com/war_on_terror/war_on_terrorism1.htm

Deficient Border Patrol

Senator John Warner: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew62.php

Representative Tom Tancredo and irrelevance of the PCA: James P. Tucker Jr., “Defend US Borders with US Army Troops,”
American Free Press
(October 21, 2002)

John Brinkerhoff on irrelevance of PCA: http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Articles/ brinkerhoffpossecomitatus.htm

Only 815 of 8,607 miles of U.S. border effectively controlled: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54514

Office of Strategic Influence

The
New York Times
on Pentagon’s credibility: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?pagewanted=all

Office of Strategic Influence closed: Editors, “US Closes ‘Disinformation’ Unit,” BBC News (February 26, 2002)

Henny Penny, the sky is going to fall: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1859&printer_friendly=1

Oath Keepers

Oath Keepers: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

Bob Hanafin on illegality of disobeying orders: http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8752&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Patrick M. Fahey and the UCMJ: http://republicdefenders.blogspot.com/2009/10/veterans-today-piece-on-oath-keepers.html

Oath Keepers will not obey these orders: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/10/06/veterans-today-hit-piece-and-an-unofficial-response/

Mark Potok and the SPLC: http://www.lvrj.com/news/oath-keepers-pledges-to-prevent-dictatorship-in-united-states-64690232.html

Hate Crimes

SPLC one of most profitable charities: http://www.americanpatrol.com/SPLC/ChurchofMorrisDees001100.html

Minutemen as resurgent antigovernment patriots: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/index.php?s=minutemen&submit=

Judy Andreas on wildly flailing SPLC: http://www.borderguardians.org/03.html

Joe Solmonese and Jim DeMint on hate crimes prevention act: http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/ 20091023/News01/910230351/-1/XML

Jeff Sessions on troubling language: Ibid.

DARPA

Christopher H. Pyle on army plan to spy on Americans: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/spying2.shtml

James Bamford on new databases for the NSA: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231

Electronic Surveillance

Senator Frank Church: James Bamford, “The Agency That Could Be Big Brother,”
New York Times
(December 25, 2005)

Representative Paul on “Know Your Customer”: Ron Paul, “Privacy Busters: Big Bank Is Watching,”
Ron Paul Newsletter
(December 1998)

Walter Soehnge: Bob Kerr, “Pay Too Much and You Could Raise the Alarm,”
Providence Journal
(February 28, 2006)

Representative Butch Otter: http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=847

Editorial comment: Editors, “Another Cave-In on the Patriot Act,”
New York Times
(February 11, 2006)

Bruce Fein on unchecked abuse: Liz Halloran, “Everyone’s Spinning the Spying,”
US News & World Report
(February 13, 2006)

ACLU’s Nadine Strossen: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/policeState.html

Act used hundreds of times: Mark Mueller, “To Catch a Monster, Using Anti-Terror Law,”
Star-Ledger
(August 14, 2005)

Tucker Bounds comment: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/07/10/MN3H11ME7C.DTL

Obama administration supporting the PATRIOT Act: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/obama-patriot-act-surveil_n_295194.html

Kevin Bankston on Obama administration sounding like Bush administration: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/05

Ron Paul quote: http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=847