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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 05:52 PM
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Lets take a step back and look at the Gestapo... Some of us
has forgotten what it was???

The role of the Gestapo was to investigate and combat "all tendencies dangerous to the State." It had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and on Germany.

The law had been changed in such a way that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. Nazi jurist Dr. Werner Best stated, "As long as the ... carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally." The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.

The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was "Schutzhaft" or "protective custody" — a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings, typically in concentration camps. The person imprisoned even had to sign his or her own Schutzhaftbefehl, the document declaring that the person desired to be imprisoned. Normally this signature was forced by beatings and torture.

from Wikipedia

Torture Imprisonment without corpus habeas and now spying on citizens... sound familiar...

and the insignia that the gestapo had on their uniforms

Skull and Bones for Death...

we got some scary times here and Congress turning back the patriot act is scrambling here...
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 05:54 PM
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1. Agree with you a 100%.
We are headed for some scary times with homegrown terrorists in our own country here, nevermind from abroad, if we don't stop these manuevers now.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 05:58 PM
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2. Read some at DARPA.gov link
www.DARPA.gov
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 06:10 PM
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3. Whoah...
thanks...
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 06:32 PM
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4. Here.... look at the archived logos and so forth.... saved for
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