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DHS Implementing No Work List: Citizens Must Get Government Approval to Work in Private Sector Jobs

You’ve heard of no fly and no buy lists – get ready for no work lists. Millions of workers now must apply to the DHS and prove they are not terrorists in order to be granted permission by the government to work.

By Kurt Nimmo | Infowars | December 16, 2010

On the Alex Jones Show today, a caller pointed to information posted on a union website for ironworkers spelling out details on the Department of Homeland Security’s TWIC and SWAC programs.

TWIC is short for Transportation Worker Identification Credential and SWAC stands for Secure Worker Access Consortium.

TWIC “is a biometric credential that ensures only vetted workers are eligible to enter a secure construction site, unescorted,” Ironworkers Local 361 in Ozone Park, New York, explains. “Before issuing a TWIC, TSA must conduct a security threat assessment on the TWIC applicant. An applicant who, as a result of the assessment, is determined to not pose a security threat, will be issued a TWIC card.”

In other words, construction workers in New York will need permission from the TSA and DHS in order to practice their profession and earn a living. It was much the same in the former Soviet Union and authoritarian states such as China where the government determines all aspects of an individual’s life and where even the mildly rebellious are severely punished.

SWAC is even more draconian. It is “a large-scale collaborative effort among public and private authorities, facility owners, contractors, and labor organizations who are partnering to prevent terrorist activity by creating a trusted contractor community. Over 500 organizations, including the Port Authority of NY and NJ, which manages and maintains the bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, airports, PATH, and seaports that are essential to the bi-state region’s trade and transportation capabilities, have joined this effort,” according to the union website.

SWAC also requires a background investigation by the government, so if construction, port workers, longshoremen, and truck drivers are involved in political activity frowned upon by the feds – for instance, 9/11 truth, considered dangerous and subversive by the State Department – it is likely they will have to find another line of work.

A SWAC PDF specifically mentions “treason” in an exhaustive list of crimes and misdeeds that will result in the federal government denying a person the right to earn a living.

The TWIC Disclosure and Certification form states the following: “I acknowledge that if TSA or other law enforcement agencies determine that I pose an imminent threat to national security or transportation security, my employer may be notified.”

The TSA no-fly list contains thousands of names, including journalists and political activists. If the government determines you hold the wrong political beliefs, according to the TWIC document, your employer will be told and you may lose your job and the ability to provide for your family.

The TWIC application also mentions “treason” and “sedition” as a criteria to put an end to an individual’s employment.

Sedition is defined as overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by officialdom to tend toward insurrection against the establishment. The Sedition Act of 1918 forbids the use of “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces. The Sedition Act was updated on October 26, 2001, when Congress signed the USA Patriot Act into law. In the mid 70s, the Church Committee discovered that the government had carried out an aggressive campaign for decades to neutralize – as FBI director Hoover characterized it – political activity the establishment considered a threat to its monopoly on power.

As noted above, TWIC plans to force an expensive biometric ID on workers. This idea is hardly new. In 2002, the Electronic Privacy Information Center sued the Department of Homeland Security in order to get details on then director Tom Ridge’s plan to introduce a biometric national ID card. Ridge and the government have stated repeatdly that “national security requirements would ultimately make such cards a reality.”

Earlier this year, Democrats pushed the idea making a biometric national ID card mandatory for all Americans. “Everyone would have to produce the card to get a job, or keep a job,” the UPI reported on May 9. “On a five-year timetable the biometric cards would replace Social Security cards and would be used to prove eligibility for employment. Card scanners would be issued to all U.S. employers. The cards would at least have the capability of being linked to a central data system.”

TWIC and SWAC represent an incremental effort by the national security state to introduce biometric ID as a prerequisite for employment. In the months ahead, we can expect more intrusions by the government on our rights as spelled out by the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” that document states.

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, however, according to the government, will soon be predicated on a national biometric ID card and inclusion of our most private information in sprawling databases.

In the coming Brave New World Order, only citizens vetted by a totalitarian government will be allowed to work and feed their families. All others will be locked out of the system like the mutants in Total Recall, the dystopian movie based on a story by Phillip K. Dick.

December 17, 2010 - Posted by | Civil Liberties, Full Spectrum Dominance

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  1. The total panoptic maximum security state has arrived. Tic tic tic…

    ww

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    hybridrogue1's avatar Comment by hybridrogue1 | December 17, 2010 | Reply

  2. The U.S. SWAC “Right To Work List” without public oversight has the potential of mirroring Nazi Government actions that targeted workers deemed politically anti-Government. What rights will U.S. job applicants and fired workers have to appeal, because government alleged he or she is a security risk? Will rejected job applicants/fired employees be informed their loss of employment was the result of being placed on a government blacklist? The Nazi Government targeted employers that refused to fire government-blacklisted employees. That enabled the Nazis to invoke fear in workers to perpetuate and enforce the Reich’s fascist government.

    In Hitler’s Germany, to get most jobs, you had to be a member of the Nazi Party. If a snitch reported you for expressing an opinion against the Nazi Government, its authorities or Hitler you could lose more than your job. Germans out of fear would not attend or support any political activity that might be deemed inappropriate by the Reich. How is U.S. Government’s SWAC “Right To Work List” any different?

    The Nazis used national emergency as a premise to ban Germans using trains; Citizens considered political dissidents or socially unfit were banned using trains, others were repeatedly searched and detained at train stations and after boarding trains; they were intentionally delayed by police/military so they would be late or miss work; many that lost their jobs could not survive being blacklisted from receiving Nazi Government assistance; some became informants so they and their family could eat and have a roof over their head. Some informants took over the homes of the persons they informed on forfeited by Hitler’s Gestapo.

    Historically despot governments that used or employed snitches before taking power expectantly later killed or imprisoned many of their informants, because it was problematic the snitches might work for the new government’s rivals. So snitches paid today should expect that a despot government in the future might terminate them.
    If Fascism materializes in America, government informants may tool easily cause the arrest and execution of innocent Americans and confiscation of their property which snitches may be paid part. It is also problematic under fascism Americans would be told by government they can’t vote. It would be shortsighted to think Fascists would let Citizens vote them out of office. Note that within 48-hours of Hitler getting Parliament to pass the 1933 Discriminatory Decrees, fascist laws that suspended provisions of the Reich Constitution, Hitler effectively disbanded Parliament stating, “If you have any legislation, bring it to me, I will decide.” Then Hitler told the Supreme Court to go home.

    Now that America is a surveillance state where U.S. Government and police increasingly track and spy on Citizens, what could Americans do if a despot U.S. Government told Americans they can’t vote? A Fascist or other despot U.S. Government will find it easier to take control of America if they round up most guns and or make ammunition unavailable for ordinary Citizens, the direction the Obama government appears headed. Already it is apparent Americans are refraining from expressing verbal opinions and writing comments on the Net. It is likely some Americans are hiding, fearing someone might remember something they said or wrote before America began its current transition into fascism.

    Is Big SIS a Trojan horse? The new program supported by government urges Americans to “report suspicious activity” at Shopping Malls, Sports events and soon 9,000 federal buildings, businesses and communities in general. Could the SIS snitch program be an informant flagship that could potentially dwarf the former East German (Stasi) Secret Police modeled after the Soviet KGB. Stasi had 1-Informant in every 66-persons. After the East German Wall came down, it was discovered Stasi secret police “Informant Files on Citizens”, if lined up back to back, would extend 12-miles. Much of the snitch information that caused E. Germans to be spied on, arrested, tortured and murdered by the State, was erroneous, provided by persons with mental issues; and informants that wanted vengeance against e.g. a neighbor, former spouse, employer or just wanted to be a “snitch” even if they didn’t get perks for informing from the communist government.

    The Stasi between 1950-1989 was regarded as the most cruel and repressive police force in the world. In 1989 when the E. German Stasi was disbanded, it employed approx. 173,000 unofficial informants (because Stasi archives were being destroyed it is likely the number of informants was closer to 500,000.) In addition the Stasi Secret Police in 1989 employed 90,000 persons full time including 2,000 unofficial collaborators, 13,000 soldiers and 2,200 officers of GDR Army.

    Below are Hitler’s passed 1933 Fascist Laws:
    DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE
    Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7

    In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:

    Section 1
    Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

    Section 2
    If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.

    Section 4
    Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.

    Who ever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.

    Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.

    Section 5
    The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).

    Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:

    1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;

    2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;

    3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.

    Section 6
    This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.

    Reich President
    Reich Chancellor
    Reich Minister of the Interior
    Reich Minister of Justice

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    RW's avatar Comment by RW | December 17, 2010 | Reply

  3. RW,
    I am really impressed with your post. A great history lesson and greatly relevant to todays Amerika.

    One point–they have already told us our votes don’t really count. Perhaps tacitly, but it is obvious.
    This despotism is postmodern, as Huxley desribed it would be so presciently.
    ww

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    hybridrogue1's avatar Comment by hybridrogue1 | December 17, 2010 | Reply

  4. Are You A Security Risk?

    The TWIC government website for issuing Work Cards states, that job applicants deemed a “Security Risk” (convicted of specified crimes listed by HLS), will not be issued a TWIC Card to work at certain private sector jobs/and current employees denied TWIC Cards can be fired. The TWIC site states, HLS will inform rejected job applicants and fired employees the reason Homeland Security would not issue them a TWIC work Card; rejected job applicants and fired employees may appeal.

    But realistically does HLS have to respond or fully provide a job applicant or fired employee the reason they were denied a TWIC work Card? HLS can refuse to respond or not fully on the basis that doing so could threaten National Security or compromise an ongoing investigation.

    Other countries to protect national security, to safeguard ports, trains and airways, have created agencies similar to TWIC, but moved forward to crush civil liberties. In the beginning e.g. the German Reich Government without public oversight, barred Germans holding certain private sector jobs that were threats to national Security, but soon prevented lawful Germans getting work that spoke out or protested against the Nazi government. Could TWIC be similarly abused? Consider that TSA has put a large number of lawful Americans on “No Fly Lists.” Many that made requests to government to learn why they are on the “No Fly List”, have not been provided an explanation by HLS/TSA. TSA is now in the process of labeling lawful Americans as extremists that publicly oppose TSA mandated X-ray scans and invasive body-pat-downs at airports. So is it problematic Americans denied TWIC work cards might be treated similarly when requesting to know why they were denied a work card?

    Who is a security risk? Currently HLS utilizes over 90 national FUSION CENTERS that obtain and store information on ordinary Americans. Fusion Centers nationally share information with law enforcement agencies that among other sources, receive information from informants. Could erroneous information provided by snitches to local police/HLS be used by HLS not to issue a TWIC work card to Citizens never charged or convicted of a crime? Under such circumstances how would Americans denied the right to work rebuke the allegations of an informant?

    Visit TWIC Website: http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/twic/twic_faqs.shtm#denied_twic

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    R. Scott's avatar Comment by R. Scott | December 20, 2010 | Reply


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