And the Drip,Drip, Drip of Liberty Lost goes to.....
A torrent.
The legislation proposed by the reprehensible Republican turncoat Senator John McCain, among others, which declares the continental United States a "battlefield" and authorizes the military to sweep in, collect any citizen of this country they deem a 'suspected terrorist', and then whisk them off to Gitmo to be imprisoned indefinitely and without due process, passed on December 15th, 2011. A day which will ultimately live in infamy. Take note it passed overwhelmingly, cynically imbedded in a massive defense spending bill. Only a few brave elected representatives voiced their alarm over what this piece of crap law means to the country in the long run. Obama piously declared he would veto the bill, because of the 'battlefield' provision, then quickly caved. Ironic, considering the Obama Administration's love for prosecuting known terrorists captured around the globe as common criminals, to disastrous effect, being forced to retreat and embrace the dastardly Bush Administration approach to holding military tribunals.
The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act has effectively been repealed. The greatest sad irony here is that an act which strips Americans of their fundamental rights heretofore guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States was passed on our national Bill of Rights day. The adoption of those much celebrated amendments occurred on December 15, 1791, upon their ratification by Virginia.
Now all the government needs to do is label any American citizen it doesn't like as a 'terrorist' or 'enemy combatant' and *poof* - disappeared, gone, potentially never to be heard from again. Since the 'war on terror' is an open ended engagement, in theory, any suspected enemy combatant can then be held forever. As far as John McCain is concerned, imprisonment without due process is not psychological or physical torture for a free citizen of the United States living under the Sun, just dunking someone's head in a bucket is. It's a sickening anathema to those precious freedoms we are slowly giving up with little more than a whimper, if that.
On it goes. Some in congress want to seize control of the internet, Chinese style. Other politicians and Obama officials want to make it a crime to lie on the internet, even though politicians lie through their teeth almost continuously. We've all seen A.G. Holder lie through his teeth regarding the now infamous ATF program "Fast and Furious", but don't you dare use a false name on Facebook. Or lie about your weight on Match.com. All of it, so pathetic. While we the people snooze as our fundamental freedoms erode, those who seek to strip us of any mechanism by which to challenge the tyranny rising around us are emboldened to push forward. Whether just ill-conceived, or more sinister in purpose, if these types of initiatives to strip us of our fundamental rights of free speech, expression, and due process are not resisted by the electorate, we will one day wake up and find it's too late.
Occupiers.....I'd start looking over my shoulder if I were you......
The legislation proposed by the reprehensible Republican turncoat Senator John McCain, among others, which declares the continental United States a "battlefield" and authorizes the military to sweep in, collect any citizen of this country they deem a 'suspected terrorist', and then whisk them off to Gitmo to be imprisoned indefinitely and without due process, passed on December 15th, 2011. A day which will ultimately live in infamy. Take note it passed overwhelmingly, cynically imbedded in a massive defense spending bill. Only a few brave elected representatives voiced their alarm over what this piece of crap law means to the country in the long run. Obama piously declared he would veto the bill, because of the 'battlefield' provision, then quickly caved. Ironic, considering the Obama Administration's love for prosecuting known terrorists captured around the globe as common criminals, to disastrous effect, being forced to retreat and embrace the dastardly Bush Administration approach to holding military tribunals.
The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act has effectively been repealed. The greatest sad irony here is that an act which strips Americans of their fundamental rights heretofore guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States was passed on our national Bill of Rights day. The adoption of those much celebrated amendments occurred on December 15, 1791, upon their ratification by Virginia.
Now all the government needs to do is label any American citizen it doesn't like as a 'terrorist' or 'enemy combatant' and *poof* - disappeared, gone, potentially never to be heard from again. Since the 'war on terror' is an open ended engagement, in theory, any suspected enemy combatant can then be held forever. As far as John McCain is concerned, imprisonment without due process is not psychological or physical torture for a free citizen of the United States living under the Sun, just dunking someone's head in a bucket is. It's a sickening anathema to those precious freedoms we are slowly giving up with little more than a whimper, if that.
On it goes. Some in congress want to seize control of the internet, Chinese style. Other politicians and Obama officials want to make it a crime to lie on the internet, even though politicians lie through their teeth almost continuously. We've all seen A.G. Holder lie through his teeth regarding the now infamous ATF program "Fast and Furious", but don't you dare use a false name on Facebook. Or lie about your weight on Match.com. All of it, so pathetic. While we the people snooze as our fundamental freedoms erode, those who seek to strip us of any mechanism by which to challenge the tyranny rising around us are emboldened to push forward. Whether just ill-conceived, or more sinister in purpose, if these types of initiatives to strip us of our fundamental rights of free speech, expression, and due process are not resisted by the electorate, we will one day wake up and find it's too late.
Occupiers.....I'd start looking over my shoulder if I were you......
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