The Police State Conspiracy
an Indictment

[HEARING -- DAY  4] [4160 words]

THE POLICE STATE CONSPIRACY - an INDICTMENT - CLOSING ARGUMENTS

Presented before the GRAND JURY of LIBERTY On this FOURTH DAY of
HEARING

The PEOPLE v NWO Et Al

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, in the first three days of this
hearing we have seen how the infrastructures of a police state are
being established in the United States.  Civil liberty protections
have been systematically dismantled; conspiracy laws permit the
conviction of people not involved in crimes; police forces are being
paramilitarized; longer sentences are being given for minor
offences; prison populations are growing dramatically.  We have seen
how factionalism is being promoted in order to divide society
against itself; we have seen how the evidence shows that dramatic
incidents, such as the World Trade Center and Oklahoma Federal
Building bombings,  have been covertly and intentionally staged in
order to avoid debate in the implementation of police-state
measures.

Today, in these closing arguments, we will examine two points. 
First, we will review the background of the NWO capitalist elite in
order to understand why political suppression via police-state
measures is an inevitable necessity for them.  Second, we will
review recent developments in Ireland, to show how police-state
measures which took years to justify politically in the US are being
exported wholesale to other Western countries.


Capitalism and the necessity of police states in the West
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The
religion of the NWO elite is capitalism, and the root of most of the
problems of the world today, including the development of police
states in the West, can be traced to the dynamics of capitalism. 
The dictionary definition of "capitalist" begins:

"An investor of capital in business..."

What distinguishes capitalism from earlier forms of private commerce
and trade is the emphasis on external capital investment -- funds
which are invested in an enterprise for the purpose of increasing
the value of the investment. In particular capitalism is
characterized by stock corporations, where ownership shares in a
business can be bought and sold.

Stockholders are technically the owners of an enterprise, but the
interests of stockholders are not the same as the interests of an
owner who also operates an enterprise. An owner-operator is
concerned with operating a healthy business and developing it over
time. He or she might be interested in growing the business, or
might just as well be happy for it to stabilize at some manageable
size and then bring in a stable ongoing profit. But a capitalist, an
external investor, is interested _solely in the growth of the
business, which is what increases the value of the stock investment.
A stable business translates into stagnant stock values; a business
which is merely profitable is not a good place for capital
investment.

One can compare a corporation -- or any investment vehicle -- to a
taxicab, and an investor to a rider. The operator of a taxicab is
concerned with keeping the vehicle in good repair and making a
regular profit over time. A rider, on the other hand, is only
concerned with his own use of the vehicle. If the rider gets to his
destination on time, he has little concern over whether the vehicle
is damaged in the process. Similarly a capital investor _uses an
investment vehicle. Only a _period of growth is required by the
investor. If the vehicle then falters, investors simply sell their
shares and reinvest elsewhere. The history of capitalism is indeed
strewn with the carcasses of boom-and-bust corporations, industries,
and whole economies.

In a capitalist economy there is a pool of capital -- the sum of all
the money investors are making available. Just as water seeks its
own level, so this ever-growing capital pool always seeks the best
available growth opportunities. And just as water over time can wear
down the highest mountain, so the relentless pressure of this
growth-seeking capital pool eventually creates an economy and
society in which growth is the dominant agenda. External ownership
-- the separation of ownership from operation -- is the origin of
the growth imperative in a capitalist economy.

The evolution of capitalism proceeds according to the following
dynamic. In each phase of its development capitalism operates within
a larger societal regime -- a particular political, cultural,
technological, and economic environment. Within this regime, under
the relentless pressure of the investment pool, the various
investment vehicles are exploited to the maximum practical degree.
There always comes a point where further growth of the pool becomes
problematic or impossible. When such a societal growth barrier is
encountered, the creative energy of capitalism is unleashed on a new
objective: _changing the surrounding societal regime.

There is thus a characteristic rhythm to capitalist evolution.
Periods of growth within a regime are punctuated by changes of
regime designed to create a new period of growth. A new societal
regime might be characterized by technological changes (the
Industrial Revolution), by political changes (creation of
republics), or by new societal projects (imperialism.) Driven by its
relentless growth imperative, capitalism has become the driving
force behind societal evolution wherever it has taken hold.

Apologists for capitalism call such societal changes "progress" and
emphasize whatever real or imagined beneficial qualities might be
present. In fact such changes have been designed by human creativity
yoked to the objective not of societal improvement, but to that of
creating new investment vehicles for the ever-voracious capital
pool. In fact the intentional destruction of societies and
economies, particularly but not only in colonized nations, has been
a technique frequently employed to create new investment vehicles.

One of the most important and characteristic societal developments
brought about by capitalism is the rise of capitalist elite
oligarchies. Given that the evolution of capitalism proceeds through
an ongoing series of intentional societal changes, it is only
natural that the mechanisms of societal control would themselves
evolve over time and eventually be consolidated into political
domination by a capitalist elite.

People of the same trade seldom meet together... but the
conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some
contrivance to raise prices. -- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

In every society where capitalism has taken hold, a dominant
capitalist oligarchy has in fact emerged, along with the
establishment of institutions designed to further elite interests in
a systematic way.  Today, the United States itself has become a
vehicle for managing world events so as to facilitate investment, to
make the world safe for capitalism. TNC's have evolved into gigantic
engines for generating capital growth, and TNC-dominated
bureaucracies (IMF, World Trade Organization, et al) are being given
global decision-making power over a wide range of issues, loosely
called economic -- and those institutions are rapidly becoming in
all but name a world government.

Global capitalism today is coming up against several constraints,
and globalization, in its full NWO dimensionality, can be seen as
the creative attempt by very competent, corporate-funded planners to
overcome those constraints. One of the constraints comes from the
very global success of capitalism -- there is no longer any
possibility of growth through territorial expansion. Other means of
growth -- and many have been perfected over the years -- must be
deployed.

In Southeast Asia, in Africa, and in the former Soviet Union, the
policies of Western finance capital and of its tool, the IMF, have
created capital-growth vehicles through the intentional destruction
of once healthy economies.  In Korea, for example, Western
over-investment was followed by the sudden withdrawal of funds and
credit.  Thus a financial bubble was created, and when it burst the
Korean currency was destroyed and the national finances were
depleted.

In desperate need of finance, Korea was forced to turn to the IMF. 
The IMF then came forward with one of its infamous "restructuring"
programs which in truth should be called "demolition" programs. 
Sound businesses that had been thriving only weeks before were
forced into bankruptcy; Korea was forced to change its social and
labor policies from top to bottom; the systems were dismantled which
had been responsible for Korea's postwar economic success.

These so-called IMF "reforms" which were forced on Korea had nothing
to do with the causes of the financial collapse.  Not only that, but
the IMF "rescue funds" did not go to Korea at all, but were rather
used to repay the external investors whose market manipulations had
caused the collapse.  While Western taxpayers fund the IMF, and
Southeast Asian (and other) populations suffer the consequences of
IMF policies, it is Western capital that reaps all the benefits.

What were the benefits reaped by Western capital?  To begin with,
the IMF bailout of the investors means that Western capital was
first able to profit from the decades of Korean growth, but was then
protected when the bubble burst.  Global capitalism has been called
"casino capitalism", and the IMF makes sure that the big players
cannot lose in this game, no matter which cards turn up.

But that was only the beginning.  To understand the _primary benefit
derived from destroying the Korean economy, we must note that
capitalism is currently suffering from what is called a "crisis of
over-production".  The efficiency and size of TNC producers have
evolved to the degree where much more can be produced than can
possibly be consumed. In automobiles, electronics, and many other
industries there are simply too many producers chasing too few
consumers.

Interventions such as in Korea and the former Soviet Union have
become a systematic mechanism to selectively cull global
competitors, thus creating growth room for those that remain.  In
addition, the assets and productive capacity of the victims have
been made available at bargain prices for purchase by Western
interests.

This selective destruction of economies is a "regime change" in the
global society, designed to create growth vehicles for the Western
capital pool.  Elimination of producers creates growth room in the
global economy for Western operators; bargain purchase of assets
increases monopoly concentration of global commerce in Western
hands; destabilized societies are forced to import what they
formerly produced for themselves, further increasing Western
capital-growth opportunities.

One of the myths of globalization is that it represents a relative
decline of Western interests, that market forces will allow other
regions to make inroads against traditional Western domination. With
the postwar economic rise of Japan and later Southeast Asia, this
myth in fact gained considerable credibility. But as the postwar
boom began to level out, and a new regime of growth became
necessary, it has become clear that the global capital elite remains
primarily a Western elite. The IMF is in fact dominated primarily by
Western-based interests, and its power has been used to selectively
cull non-Western operators.

While the IMF culls competitors using the power of the purse
strings, the US and NATO accomplish the same objective in other
ways. In the case of the petroleum market, where limiting supply is
crucial to maintaining desired global oil prices, geopolitical
machinations have been employed to restrict at various times the
production of Iran, Iraq, Libya, and others. By encouraging the
split-up of Yugoslavia, which competed in several world markets
including automobile production, additional culling was
accomplished.

As capitalism enters its global era, it is doing so under the
control of the Western capitalist elite. This elite dominates the
leading Western nations politically, even more firmly controls the
foreign policies of those nations, and totally controls the policies
of the IMF, the World Bank, and the other institutions of the global
governmental apparatus. All the potent agencies which determine the
course of global societal evolution are firmly in the control of the
Western elite.

But in another sense the decline of the West is not myth but
reality. Western elites remain in firm control and continue to
prosper under globalization, but Western societies are in fact in
decline -- economically, culturally, and politically. This decline
is intentional, planned and implemented by the capitalist elite as a
societal change designed, as always, to create growth vehicles for
the capital pool.

This particular episode of Western societal engineering is called
the "neoliberal revolution" and it was formally launched with the
candidacies of Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the
UK, and with the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty in Europe. The
agenda of the neoliberal revolution is summed up in the
all-too-familiar mantra "free trade, deregulation, privatization,
and reform". The true meaning of this agenda can be easily found by
analyzing each transaction in terms of its consequences for capital
growth.

_Free trade, whose practical definition must be inferred from the
terms of the international free-trade agreements, in fact means the
elimination of national sovereignty over the flow of capital and
goods. The consequence is that TNC's have more flexibility in
optimizing production and distribution, and in exploiting the
opportunities created by the culling of competitors. This
flexibility is the growth vehicle provided by the free-trade plank
of the neoliberal platform.

_Deregulation refers to the elimination of national sovereignty over
corporate concentration, capital movement, corporate operations,
pricing, and product standards. Again the benefit is clear. Greater
freedom in concentrating ownership, shifting capital, operating
without environmental or other restraints, raising prices, and
reducing standards -- these all provide vehicles for growth in this
neoliberal phase of capitalism in Western economies.

_Privatization refers to the sale of national assets to corporate
operators and the transfer of control over national infrastructures
to those operators. Each such transfer creates an immediate growth
vehicle for capital, in the exploitation of the asset and the
infrastructure. In addition the transfers have been in fact
sweetheart deals where negotiators on both sides of the transactions
have represented the interests of the same capitalist elite. Asset
values have been heavily discounted, through various tried-and-true
trickeries of accounting, and the "sales" have in fact represented
immediate transfers of wealth from public ownership directly into
corporate coffers. The sale transactions themselves are growth
vehicles.

_Reform, besides referring to generic compliance with the neoliberal
agenda, also means reducing the taxes of corporations and the
wealthy, eliminating social services, and generally cutting back the
functions of government. Obviously these tax changes serve to grow
the capital pool. The elimination of social services also serves as
a growth vehicle in two ways. Workers become hungrier for
employment, creating a downward pressure on wages. New enterprises
can be started in order to provide the services formerly provided by
government (medical care, insurance, etc).

The general cutting back of government functions is simply part of
the sovereignty transfer from national governments to the
centralized regime of global institutions. As power and
administration is concentrated globally, the role of national
governments is being reduced and refocused. As has been long true of
governments in much of the Third World, the role of Western
governments is devolving toward three major functions: conforming to
the dictates of the global regime, making payments on the national
debt, and controlling the domestic population. The
paramilitarization of police forces, the rise in prison populations,
and the extension of police powers are very necessary societal
changes required to enable the full implementation of the neoliberal
agenda.

It is no accident that in the USA, where the neoliberal agenda has
been most thoroughly implemented, the collateral police-state
apparatus is also most thoroughly deployed. SWAT teams, midnight
raids, property confiscations, mandatory and draconian sentencing, a
booming prison-construction industry, increased surveillance and
monitoring of individuals and organizations -- these are all an
increasing part of the American scene. Government officials have
stated that Americans must expect even more dramatic security
measures, and that military vehicles and weapons can be expected in
domestic situations where warranted by security concerns.

The neoliberal agenda in fact amounts to the dismantlement of
Western societies, undoing what was in some sense many decades of
social progress. Although the dominant global elite remains based in
the West, strong Western societies are no longer required under the
global regime, as they were in the era of competitive nationalism.
Just as the IMF devastates non-Western societies in ways that
provide growth vehicles, so the neoliberal revolution devastates
Western societies for the same purpose, if at a somewhat more
gradual pace. Police-state regimes, whether or not acknowledged by
that name, are an inevitable necessity if Western nations are to be
kept in line as the neoliberal dismantlement, which is still in its
early days, continues to unfold.


Exporting the police state: Ireland and the Omagh bombing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've been
living in the UK and Ireland for over four years.  I've been
observing the peace process and the tactics of the various sides,
including several IRA bombings.  While by no means condoning violent
methods, I have been nonetheless impressed by the care that went
into the planning and execution of most of the IRA's operations.

Huge bombs were set off in London, in the heart of the financial
district and at the Docksides complex, causing immense property
damage and embarrassment to British officials, with surprisingly
little injury or loss of life.  Without approving of violence, one
can still acknowledge that the IRA has, at least in recent years,
been politically astute in their (nonetheless unjustifiable)
operations.

The Omagh bombing was totally out of character; it made no sense
whatsoever within the political context of Northern Ireland and the
progress of the peace process.  Certainly there are dissident
elements who aren't satisfied with the compromises that have been
reached, but accommodations have been made to all sides, and the
overwhelming spirit in both North and South is to reach a settlement
and put the "troubles behind us".

The Omagh bombing was the most deadly of the entire 30-year
"troubles".  It was out of character not only by its timing, but
also in terms of its scale.  My first response on hearing of it was
"Where did this come from?".  It seemed to have come from out of the
blue, totally unrelated to the Irish context.  It felt like one of
the "staged dramatic incidents" that we reviewed in the previous
installment of this Indictment.  Suspicious, I waited for the other
shoe to drop.

I didn't have to wait long.  The headline on page seven of the Irish
Times for September 1st reads: "Harsh measures `regrettably
necessary' to fight terrorism."  Here we read of a fourteen-point
anti-terrorism bill that is, in its essentials, copied directly from
the police-state provisions that have been adopted in varying
degrees by the US and Britain.

A suspect who refuses to answer questions, can have his silence used
against him.  The silence itself can be "inferred" as being
corroborating evidence against the suspect.  The right to trial by
jury becomes little more than a sham: if the suspect doesn't confess
all, he either opens himself to perjury (by lying) or else builds,
through silence, an "inferred" case against himself.

The validity of trial by jury is further undermined by a another
provision, which requires the defense to announce to the
prosecution, in advance of a trial, all witnesses it is going to
call.  Thus the prosecution is armed in advance with the strategy of
the defense, much to its advantage.  And witnesses are exposed to
possible harassment leading up to the trial, the fear of which could
have a chilling effect on their willingness to testify.

As if that weren't enough, a suspect is expected to divulge, under
police questioning, every bit of evidence that he might rely on in
his defense.  Otherwise "inferences" can be drawn.  The very
vagueness of "inferences" still further extends the power of the
state over that of the accused in what has become a mockery of a
criminal trial.

The "conduct" of an accused -- by which he can be judged guilty --
is re-defined to include "movements, activities, actions or
associations".  The critical word here is "associations".  If you
can be proved to be a member of an organization, and if that
organization engages in illegal acts, then your mere association
makes you to some degree a party to the acts.  This provision
establishes in Ireland what in the US are known as conspiracy laws. 
Such laws, in conjunction with agent provocateurs, can be used to
suppress popular organizations which legitimately and legally oppose
government policies.

Just as the US President, under police-state provisions, can declare
any organization to be a "terrorist organization", so can the Irish
government "suppress" any organization under the 1939 "Offences
Against the State" act.  The new "regrettable measures" of the
anti-terrorism bill extend considerably the power of the state to
succeed in suppressing any organization it decides it doesn't like.

Under the charge of "directing an unlawful organization", one can
receive life imprisonment.  "Directing", it turns out, means
directing the activities of the organization "at any level".  Thus,
if an organization has been officially "suppressed", all of its
leaders down to the precinct level can be rounded up and put in
prison with the key thrown away -- simply for being leaders, and
even if the organization is engaged in no illegal activity.

Under the charge of "unlawful collection of information" one can be
imprisoned for up to 10 years.  If you have maps and lists of
people, perhaps to support political organizing, and the prosecutor
says you were planning a terrorist network, it is up to you to prove
he's wrong.  Again trial by jury is made a mockery.  Instead of the
state proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, it is up to the
accused to prove they aren't guilty.

During thirty years of troubles such anti-terrorist provisions were
not considered necessary.  Then on the very eve of final settlement
a mysterious, uncharacteristic "incident" occurs in Omagh, and with
suspicious suddenness the Irish government comes up with an
anti-terrorism bill which mimics the "latest developments" in the
police-state provisions of the US and Britain.

The parallels between the Oklahoma City and Omagh bombing scenarios
are striking.  Both were unprecedented in their scale of death and
injury; neither made any sense in terms of being a "political
statement" for any group or organization; the circumstance of both
were highly suspicious; both were immediately followed by the
passage of omnibus anti-terrorism bills _without _debate.


Summary ^^^^^^^ The pattern, then, is clear.  The US leads the way
in the development of police-state measures and of the means to get
them implemented without debate.  The measures are then exported to
other countries by the tried-and-true method of staging dramatic
incidents.  Globalization is a very systematic process, as we have
seen in the pattern of IMF interventions, and as we can see in the
establishment of global governing institutions.  It is no surprise
that a systematic means have been developed to implement the
police-state regimes which are required to fulfill the aims of the
neoliberal revolution.

The evidence, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is clear.  Our NWO
elite leaders are committed to the program of corporate
globalization.  They are compelled to this strategy by the need to
keep their capital pool growing.  Reducing Western populations to
Third-World status is a necessary part of their plans for the
globalization of the economy and the consolidation of all power in
their centralized bureaucracies.  The installation of police-state
regimes is being purposely pursued in order to force this elite
program on Western populations.

I suggest to you that the only reasonable verdict is "guilty as
charged", and that the sentence should be the overthrow of the
capitalist elite oligarchy, through non-violent democratic
revolution, and the replacement of the capitalist system by one more
appropriate to human happiness and well-being.

I thank you for your attention and invite you to go forth and do
your duty as free men and women to secure the future of the Earth
and of your progeny.


[End: Police-State Indictment]
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Recommended Reading (alphabetical order):
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William Blum, "Killing
Hope, US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II", 1995,
Common Courage Press, PO Box 702, Monroe, ME 04951, USA.

Michel Chossudovsky, "The Globalisation of Poverty", 1997, Third
World Network, 228, Macalister Road, 10400 Penang, Malaysia, fax 60
4 226 4505.

Richard Douthwaite, "The Growth Illusion", 1992, Lilliput Press,
Dublin.

William Greider, "Who Will Tell the People -- the Betrayal of
American Democracy", 1993, Simon and Schuster.

Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking
of World Order", 1997, Simon and Schuster.

V.I. Lenin, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", 1939,
International Publishers Co.

Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (editors), "The Case Against the
Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local", 1996, Sierra Club
Books, San Francisco.

Michael Parenti, "Make-Believe Media -- the Politics of
Entertainment", 1992, St. Martin's Press, New York.

David Wise, "The American Police State", 1973, Vintage Books.