Spying On "We The People"

Fascism and the “Evolution of the Fire Service”

By Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
November 30, 2007

According to a Phoenix, Arizona, fire chief quoted by David Edwards and Muriel Kane of Raw Story, firefighters snooping around inside your home, looking for suspicious material that may indicate you might be less than enthusiastic about the government, represents an “evolution of the fire service.”

Actually, what it represents is the death of the Bill of Rights, specifically the Fourth Amendment.

Like the First and Second Amendments, the Fourth is fundamental to the Bill of Rights. It arises from the old English maxim, ”Every man’s house is his castle,” and has precedent in a legal case going back to 1603.

...However, whether they realize it or not, firemen who snoop around looking for evidence of political crimes are foot soldiers for an authoritarian political ideology, even if they do not fully comprehend this ideology. In a dictionary definition sense, fascism is typified by totalitarian attempts to impose state control over all aspects of life and this is precisely what our rulers are attempting to do.

As Mike German, a former FBI agent, told Keith Olbermann, the Department of Homeland Security — let us call this agency what it really is, the “Ministry” of Homeland Security, an apropos if not frightening reference to Orwell — is attempting to turn firefighters into government spies, or more politely “intelligence gatherers.”

In response to Olbermann’s question about firefighters now tasked with the job of ferreting out materials that may express “discontent” with the government. Mr. German said: “Anytime you look at these stories, they always focus on certain reading materials, terrorist propaganda they might call it… and their focus on literature. Of course, again, there is a First Amendment in operation too, so we are concerned that is where the firefighters are turning their attention.”

“Experts disagree on what effect the war on terrorism will have on First Amendment freedoms. Some constitutional experts say the most egregious affronts to the Constitution have occurred in the Fourth Amendment arena. But many believe that freedom of speech will be curtailed,” warns David Hudson, writing for the Freedom Forum.

“I am very worried that there will be more efforts to suppress speech if the war on terrorism drags on,” explains Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor at the University of Southern California.

Indeed, if the neocons have their way, the “war on terrorism,” actually a war on liberty at home in the name of globalist fascism, will drag on for a hundred years or more.

It’s not called the “Long War” for nothing.

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