Yesterday was an extraordinary day reflected in my web journal. Two other events occurred that set this day apart as a watershed. George Bush signed into law a bill that destroys the US justice system, and there was a campaign to collect a day in the life blogs from people in the UK which will be preserved at the British Museum.

BBC News Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 15:20 GMT 16:20 UK

Bush signs US terror trial bill

President Bush said the law would save American lives Bush speech extract

President George W Bush has signed into law a bill that sets standards for the interrogation and prosecution of foreign terror suspects held by the US.

The law aims to enshrine defendants' human rights, but still restricts their right to challenge their detention.

It follows a Supreme Court ruling in June that military tribunals set up to prosecute detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated US and international law.

A US spokesman said preparations would now begin to try Guantanamo suspects.

At a ceremony in Washington, Mr Bush said it was a rare occasion when a president signed a law that he knew would save American lives.

"I have that privilege this morning," he said, calling the Military Commissions Act "one of the most important pieces of legislation in the war on terror".

'Fair trials'

The president said the Central Intelligence Agency's programme of questioning terror suspects had proved invaluable, and the new law would reinforce this.

. . .

Several hundred detainees are being held at Guantanamo Bay

The bill forbids treatment of detainees that would constitute war crimes - such as torture, rape and biological experiments - but gives the president the authority to decide which other techniques interrogators can use.

At the tribunals, defendants will be allowed to see some - but not necessarily all - of the evidence against them. The law also bars non-US citizens from filing habeas corpus petitions challenging their detentions in federal court.

Civil liberties groups say the law does not guarantee detainees' rights, and legal challenges are to be expected.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6058970.stm

2. A day in the life of the country collected Blogs yesterday for permanent placement at the British Museum. I went to the History Matters web site to provide my entry. I included it at the end of yesterday's web journal. I include it again here:

It's been just another day in the continuous 24/7 surveillance to which I am subjected. Instead of counting the days they are years and months now since mid-August 1998 when this surveillance driven torture started.

I am constantly reminded of Nazi Germany and the immediate opening of Dachau near Munich shortly after Hitler assumed power in March 1933. This camp was opened for the undesirables and used for medical experiments. It had its gas chamber and crematorium too but not on the scale of those in Poland. I recall Martha Gellhorn's account of walking into Dachau a couple days after it was liberated. It changed her life completely. She was never the same again. Out of it came her novel "Point of No Return."

I have been used as a human guinea pig during these past eight plus years for R&D and medical experimentation. "He should be dead," was a recent comment. Today was another day of relating this activity to the news of the failures with regard to the Control Orders. Two out of the 15 so "detained" have fled.

The surveillance technology used against me is so sophisticated that I cannot escape it. Why hasn't the government started using this against suspected terrorists? I wrote about this in my web journal against the background of the news noting that this was similar to the rise of the Third Reich. I also sent a fax to the Prime Minister. Fat lot of good that'll do. It's tantamount to sending a fax to Hitler.

Over eight years of surveillance technology torture and experimention was for me just another day. I am living in the world of the future, but no one wants to believe it. There are many who do because they participate. The media is the worst because they should be digging into this and are not.

I've taken to carrying out surveillance of sorts against myself to record in writing and with video and audio recordings what is happening. The truth cannot be denied. While I reflect upon the tragedies of the past, I see them unfolding for everyone in the future because no one is addressing the abuses just as occurred in the early 1930s in Germany.

Plus ca change, plus la meme chose.

I remember a Pogo cartoon from some decades ago with the caption: "I've seen the enemy, and he is us."

The History Matters web site went on to ask for further participation by asking two questions and requesting a photo from "your computer" in conjunction with each of these questions. The first was what history meant and the second was what would you tell the future generation.

Given what I wrote above I indicated that the study of history enabled us to avoid repeating its tragedies as Santayana had famously stated. The photo I provided was the one above with the hooded and bound prisoners being taken from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay concentration camp with the US flag displayed above in the background. This particular photo is a stunning reminder of what the US and UK have been doing against the background of the law which George Bush signed yesterday.

My advice to the future generations is to watch what people do and ignore what they say while learning to evaluate character. The photo I chose was called a "time montage" reflecting SIGINT operations past and more recent. This montage includes intercept operators, antenna and a computer CPU chip. These are USAF personnel indicating to me what was the USAF Security Service and goes by a different name today. At one point during the Cold War this was invaluable intelligence carried out on a massive world wide basis by the military services under the control of NSA.

With the collapse of communism; the rise of terrorism and the growth of technology especially that related to intercepting electromagnetic radiation emission from all sources the "time montage" below should be expanded to include the kind of surveillance to which I am being subjected for all these years 24/7. That massive world wide SIGINT effort has been maintained and is expanding in a world subjected to the threat of terrorism. Today this espionage can read and decode the brainwaves surrounding the head of a human being as I am describing herein. The great challenge for the future and for future generations is to use this espionage properly and not abuse it as is happening to me.

As noted above, the law signed by George Bush in the US yesterday forbids torture and biological experimentation to which I've been subjected 24/7 for many years by US personnel along with those here in the UK. Laws do not mean anything to these people. They do as they please with this surveillance technology. The exposures of abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere including the Rendition flights (see the above photo) have not fazed these people in the least. They are a law unto themselves who torture and kill at will while carrying out biological experiments to improve these techniques with and for this surveillance technology. By discrediting their human targets with false allegations of the grossest kind and ultimately killing these human guinea pigs they hide what they are doing. To do so becomes a matter of national security in a most perverted sense.

The real challenge for now and in the future is how to deal with these abuses while preserving the democratic rule of law. George Bush has opted for martial law and fascism. The organisations of espionage and intelligence become the instruments of suppression and death. Watch what is done. Do not listen to the words intended to gloss over reality which George Orwell called "doublethink." The kind of intercept sites pictured below legitimately used during the Cold War against military targets will evolve, I believe, into monitoring and feedback sites for population control where every single person will be completely monitored with the surveillance technology currently being used against me.