All of you deviants, criminals and disruptors!

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All of you deviants, criminals and disruptors!

bushitler is after us!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/11/212726/954

Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
Wed Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:26 PM PDT

Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be
jailed for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed
provision" in the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower
Secret Service to charge protesters with a new crime of
"disrupting major events including political conventions and the
Olympics." Secret Service would also be empowered to charge
persons with "breaching security" and to charge for "entering a
restricted area" which is "where the President or other person
protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily
visiting." In short, be sure to stay in those wired, fenced
containments or free speech zones.

Who is the "disruptor"? Bush Team history tells us the disruptor
is an American citizen with the audacity to attend Bush events
wearing a T-shirt that criticizes Bush; or a member of civil
rights, environmental, anti-war or counter-recruiting groups who
protest Bush policies; or a person who invades Bush's bubble by
criticizing his policies. A disruptor is also a person who
interferes in someone else's activity, such as interrupting Bush
when he is speaking at a press conference or during an
interview.

What are the parameters of the crime of "disruptive behavior"?
The dictionary defines "disruptive" as "characterized by unrest
or disorder or insubordination." The American Medical
Association defines disruptive behavior as a "style of
interaction" with people that interferes with patient care, and
can include behavior such as "foul language; rude, loud or
offensive comments; and intimidation of patients and family
members."

What are the rules of engagement for "disruptors"? Some Bush
Team history of their treatment of disruptors provide some clues
on how this administration will treat disruptors in the future.

(1) People perceived as disruptors may be preemptively ejected
from events before engaging in any disruptive conduct.

In the beginning of this war against disruptors, Americans were
ejected from taxpayer funded events where Bush was speaking. At
first the events were campaign rallies during the election, and
then the disruptor ejectment policy was expanded to include
Bush's post election campaign-style events on public policy
issues on his agenda, such as informing the public on medicare
reform and the like. If people drove to the event in a car with
a bumper sticker that criticized Bush's policies or wore
T-shirts with similar criticism, they were disruptors who could
be ejected from the taxpayer event even before they engaged in
any disruptive behavior. White House press secretary McClellan
defended such ejectments as a proper preemptive strike against
persons who may disrupt an event: "If we think people are coming
to the event to disrupt it, obviously, they're going to be asked
to leave."

(2) Bush Team may check its vast array of databanks to cull out
those persons who it deems having "disruptor" potential and then
blacklist those persons from events.

The White House even has a list of persons it deems could be
"disruptive" to an eventand then blacklists those persons from
attending taxpayer funded events where Bush speaks. Sounds like
Bush not only has the power to unilaterally designate people as
"enemy combatants" in the global "war on terror," but to
unilaterally designate Americans as "disruptive" in the domestic
war against free speech.

(3) The use of surveillance, monitoring and legal actions
against disruptors.

Bush's war against disruptors was then elevated to surveillance,
monitoring, and legal actions against disruptor organizations.
The FBI conducts political surveillance and obtains intelligence
filed in its database on Bush administration critics , such as
civil rights groups (e.g., ACLU), antiwar protest groups (e.g.,
United for Peace and Justice) and environmental groups (e.g.,
Greenpeace).

This surveillance of American citizens exercising their
constitutional rights has been done under the pretext of
counterterrorism activities surrounding protests of the Iraq war
and the Republican National Convention. The FBI maintains it
does not have the intent to monitor political activities and
that its surveillance and intelligence gathering is "intended to
prevent disruptive and criminal activity at demonstrations, not
to quell free speech."

Surveillance of potential disruptors then graduated to legal
actions as a preemptive strike against potential disruptive
behavior at public events. In addition to monitoring and
surveillance of legal groups and legal activities, the FBI
issued subpoenas for members to appear before grand juries based
on the FBI's "intent" to prevent "disruptive convention
protests." The Justice Dept. opened a criminal investigation
and subpoenaed records of Internet messages posted by Bush`s
critics. And, the Justice Dept. even indicted Greenpeace for a
protest that was so lame the federal judge threw out the case.

So now the Patriot Act, which was argued before enactment as a
measure to fight foreign terrorists, is being amended to make
clear that it also applies to American citizens who have the
audacity to disrupt President Bush wherever his bubble may
travel. If this provision is enacted into law, then Bush will
have a law upon which to expand the type of people who
constitute disruptors and the type of activities that constitute
disruptive activities. And, then throw them all in jail.