...a warrant sweep, something that takes place in cities on a fairly frequent basis. The thing to worry about is the feds becoming comfortable in local bailiwicks, or making State warrant sweeps to \"help\" local prosecutors. In other words, this sweep was a federal one, to sweep up federal wanted absconders or suspects.
There is no Constitutional violation in anything they did. Under the present law, in fact, they could do far more, and much worse to wanted suspects and parolees, on a much larger scale. They could enlist local law enforcement, and could probably merge agencies so that no one would be able to tell whether the sweep was a federal or a State operation.
Frankly, the thing looks like a test. The government is just now deeply involved in running experiments and tests with law enforcement and emergency reaction across the country. It may be that they just want to see what it would take to round up a bunch of people by surprise in one day. In that sense, it is ominous.
But the most ominous element of all of this is the present ability of the government to launch an overnight effort to mass arrest citizens on a flimsy legal basis. They know they have this power, and have worked to legitimize its use, and are rehearsing.
...Illusive Outside enemy
Known and documented, Al Qaeda is a creation of the US intelligence apparatus.
The purpose of the TOPOFF anti-terrorist exercises is not to \"defend America\" against terrorists, but to build a consensus within federal, State and municipal bodies, as well as within the business community and civil society (hospitals, schools, etc.) that this illusive outside enemy exists and that \"the threat is real\"...
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