Police state despots don’t like their crimes exposed even if they know there will be no consequences for their actions.

“You may not see them, but they’ll be watching you.”

Says your friendly Fusion Center.

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/basketball/mavericks/Dallas-Police-Prepare-for-Parade-123861614.html

Obama is walking on eggshells afraid that any action he takes may ruin his almost certain second term.

Great political strategy but an absolute tragedy for our country and the rule of law.

He is leaving a ready made police state for the next president inclined to use the tools he has left at their disposal.

OOps, meant to translate

The para-political scandal that erupted when then-president just Álvaro Uribe began his second term , not only changed the course of the dilemmas between the government and the opposition, but that once created legal uncertainty of such dimensions that put the national leaders to seek alterative truths about the ties between members of the political and paramilitary groups . This whole scene was caught on cables U.S. Embassy in Colombia.

In one of these reports, in the context of the then President Uribe announcements about the release of FARC prisoners for reasons of state, the embassy elaborated on the president’s sudden proposal that politicians accused of paramilitary links to be declared guilty and confess their activities, in exchange for the guarantee of no jail time. The argument was that it was impossible to send to jail all those involved in paramilitary activities.

In that same vein, and l cable to Washington detailing the other formula Uribe before the crisis of parapolitics: to promote a national debate to politicians, farmers, businessmen and other senior figures in the country, who had collaborated with the paramilitary groups. The idea was designed to receive freedom in exchange for full confessions of their activities, provided they were not involved in killings or in activities associated with violence.

However, the then director of communications for the Presidency, Jorge Mario Eastman, said that if successful the initiative, it should be a legislative process. Even more uncertain ground since, as emphasized by the Embassy in your cable, then the Congress and expressed a clear division to such proposals, fearing that any bill that benefits would for Congress could damage the legitimacy the legislature.

Amid the debate, Sen. Gustavo Petro then proposed a “stop law,” the U.S. Embassy in cable dated May 2007 described as a concept similar to the formula of President Uribe , while the second looked more like a strategy to free their political allies. Although at that time the Liberal Party has publicly rejected the option of “stop law, senior officials of the same community said they had contacts anyway to find solutions.

A month later, the U.S. Embassy sent another cable, this time taking as the source statements of the then legal adviser to the Presidential Palace, Mauricio Gonzalez, now a judge of the Constitutional Court, “in which she put into consideration the possibility submit a bill to reduce sentences to politicians linked to paramilitary groups. The aim was to create an alternative sentence that would involve not accept it in cases of heinous crimes and related conduct.

Washington made ​​the report to evidence that the Colombian government did not know how to address the issue and that President Uribe was considering to go to Congress to seek a way out, making clear that it was not an amnesty law, but only reduced sentences in exchange for the confession of crimes . In other words, reduced jail time and permanent inability to participate in political activities.

The initiative sought that the sentences were proportionate to the degree of collaboration with paramilitary groups in order to avoid injustice. Yes, it was clear he could not rely on politicians involved in massacres. The cable was written how the legal adviser Palacio, Mauricio Gonzalez, acknowledged that several lawyers involved in the scandal lawmakers lobbied heavily for the conspiracy was listed as a political crime.

In the end, none of the proposals unsuccessful, the parapolitics took its course and today several members of Congress face not only convictions for conspiracy, but they are prosecuted for crimes against humanity. In addition, after a first wave of research between 2006 and 2008, as far this year has returned to revive the specter of parapolitics and leaders have come to swell the ranks of those under investigation for ties to paramilitary groups.

Drummond Coal is in the same boat on a different tack.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48918633/EleventhCircuitCourtDrummondReversal2011

US Court Revives Lawsuit Against Drummond Coal in Colombia Coal Killings

http://alabamacorruption.blogspot.com/2011/02/us-court-revives-lawsuit-against.html

If you look into the history of Drummonds conflicts with unions in Alabama and their subsequent strategy to move operations to Colombia to circumvent having to deal with unions it becomes clear why the murder of union opponents in Colombia began. Murder is much cheaper than negotiating.

In an interesting side note Uribe has floated the idea of those politicians involved in the murders by paramilitaries to plead guilty in exchange for no jail. You know.. looking forwards, not backwards.

http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/wikileaks/articulo-274274-soluciones-de-uribe-el-lio-del-paramilitarismo

When do the drone strikes begin in the USA?

Now that torture and murder of American citizens without due process is US policy I imagine it is just a matter of time.

Isn’t SAIC the prime contractor for Fusion Centers? I know they are for the one in South Carolina.

Ditto Honduras and Haiti.

Despite being a beacon of freedom for the downtrodden we sure did do a lot to insure these counties remained corporatist havens at the “downtroddens” expense.

Truly sickening.

True, civil but brought in the USA. If i remember right wasn’t Drummond the first corporation to be sued by foreign nationals in the US for these sort crimes? They used a law from the 1700′s. The first suit was found in Drummonds favor. A new suit is ongoing.

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_24437.shtml

Chiquitas lawyer, USAG Eric Holder, must not have done as good a job defending these corporate murderers as it first appeared.

See also Drummond Coal, corporate murderer as well.

They would do it here if they thought they could get away with it.

Now we need find a way to keep the uber rich from enjoying their ill gotten gains.

Geez raw Story has a link in comments to a story claiming the families say they were held against their will and forced to agree.

http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/03/cias-davis-leaves-pakistani-prison.html

Looks like Raymond Davis freed by the Pakistani’s.

Blood money paid courtesy of the USG.

CIA spy escapes murder case in Pakistan after US pays ‘blood money’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/16/cia-spy-murder-pakistan-blood

The US Army already has a plan in place to use civilian labor.

Civilian Inmate Labor Program

http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r210_35.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Inmate_Labor_Program

Something to consider.

While MacDill is an AF special operations base and it appears the AF is the end user of the software we should not rule out that it is actually the Coast Guard using this software to engage social media in the USA. They are the only service allowed to conduct operations in the USA proper without violating what is left of Posse Comitatus.

It is no coincidence that most Fusion Centers were situated along the coast. In Charleston, South Carolina the USCG is in charge of DHS operations.

Google “Project Seahawk”, it was the pilot project started by earmarks from Lindsey Graham to fight so called “fifth columnists”.

My guess is the US Coast Guard is is charged with domestic surveillance duties.

TBTJ (Too Big To Jail)

I wonder what the USG response would be if Davis was declared an illegal combatant and detained indefinitely without charge?

I hope when revolution comes to the USA it happens just as fast as it did in Egypt.

I’m sure the spooks will be just as clueless as to the reasons as they were about Egypt.

LoL

You know the corporatist assholes think they have the game won when they go after unions made up of millionaires.

I wonder if the events in Egypt even give them pause?

I guess if Obama’s DOJ is willing to rendition and torture an American citizen without charges it is but a small matter to ignore Miranda and deny access to counsel.

I keep waiting for these tactics to start being used in whistleblower and drug cases.

It’s just a matter of time.