Our Police State - Not All That Different Now

Report: Ex-FBI head Hoover plotted mass arrest

Failed plan involved detaining 12,000 Americans suspected of disloyalty

Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.

Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Harry S. Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons.

Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to "protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site.

The plan called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals whose names were on a list Hoover had been compiling for years.

"The index now contains approximately twelve thousand individuals, of which approximately ninety-seven percent are citizens of the United States," Hoover wrote in the now-declassified document. "In order to make effective these apprehensions, the proclamation suspends the writ of habeas corpus."

Habeas corpus is the right to seek relief from illegal detention, and is a bedrock legal principle.

Folks if you don't think this could happen here in the good ol' US of A, think again. I guarantee that 50 years from now, if any records still exist, we will see these same types of plans from this group of fascists.

While it is unclear whether Sinclair Lewis really said it as Ron Paul attributed, the fact still remains "When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." And folks it's here.