THE NEW NORMAL

I thought I’d share the NEW NORMAL philosophy embraced by the Department of Homeland Security. The NEW NORMAL, as defined by Vice President Dick Cheney, explained shortly after September 11: “Many of the steps we have now been forced to take will become permanent in American life,” part of a “new normalcy” that reflects “an understanding of the world as it is.”

In an address Richard B. Cooper (Business Liaison Director, Private Sector Office, US Department of Homeland Security) gave before the Little Hoover Commission; Cooper refers to the NEW NORMAL. The link to Cooper’s speech is provided on the left side of the blog.

I was linked to this document from FEMA, to Home Land Security, to the document. I researched the NEW NORMAL, and came across a study by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. This study is concentrates on human rights as defined by the NEW NORMAL, Home Land Security and the United States involvement in world affairs.
There are some interesting quotes from this study pertaining to liberty.

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But the new normal is also defined by dramatic changes in the relationship between the U.S. government and the people it serves. Changes that have meant the loss of particular freedoms for some, and worse, a detachment from the rule of law as a whole. As this report details, the United States has become unbound from the principles that have long held it to the mast.

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PRIVACY AND ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
As the breadth of these examples should suggest, the changes that have become part of the new normal are not limited to the role of the courts. The two years since September 11 have seen a shift away from the core U.S. presumption of access that is essential to democratic government.

…the presumption that government is largely open to public scrutiny, while the personal information of its people is largely protected from government intrusion. Today, the default in America has become just the opposite.

… the work of the executive branch increasingly is conducted in secret, but unfettered government access to personal information is becoming the norm.

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As the report that follows demonstrates in greater detail, the U.S. government can no
longer promise that individuals under its authority will be subject to a system bound by the rule of law. In a growing number of cases, legal safeguards are now observed only so far as they are consistent with the chosen ends of power. Yet too many of the policies that have led to this new normal not only fail to enhance U.S. security.

But also exact an unnecessarily high price in liberty. For a government unbound by the rule of law presides over a society that is something less than free.

The other thing I found interesting in my research of FEMA were contributing government departments that shape the agency’s policy. One of the departments that contribute to FEMA’s policy is the PRIVATE SECTOR LIAISON OFFICE (PSLO). In researching the PSLO, I was lead to international links, which led to the World Bank’s division of the European Private Sector Liaison Office. FEMA makes reference to several international organizations and contributions which shape policy for responding to disasters and disaster mitigation for state and local governments and disaster prone regions; as does Agenda 21, conceived at the UNESCO 1992 Rio Convention.

The reason I bring this up is the influence and trend of our government to either adopt or model policy after global agendas. The International Property Maintenance Code, conceived by the United Nations, is almost verbatim taken from Agenda 21. I’m sharing this ongoing research with blog readers as it progresses, rather than present it all at a later time. At some point, considering the obligations I have to the World Heritage Site invasive agenda, the wolf release programme, and the development of the New Mexico Property Rights Forum, I will have a more comprehensive posting on FEMA, hazard mitigation and how it affects private property rights. Until that time, here is more in the chain of evidence of how customary laws in the United States are being replaced with modern globalist law.