muzzies and jews who are caught spying on our government and bombing
each other, something that will increase in the coming years, if not
months
On Jan 4, 10:20 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any member of congress who is not a crook? Damn few.
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> *How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest
> Act*
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> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28478****
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> I never thought I would have to write this: but—incredibly—Congress has now
> passed the National Defense Appropriations
> Act<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1867pcs/pdf/BILLS-112s1867pcs.pdf>,
> with Section 1021, which allows for the military detention of American
> citizens. The section is so loosely worded that any American citizen could
> be held without due process. The language of this bill can be read to
> assure Americans that they can challenge their detention — but most people
> do not realize what this means: at Guantanamo and in other military
> prisons, one's lawyer's calls are monitored, witnesses for one's defense
> are not allowed to testify, and one can be forced into nudity and
> isolation. Incredibly, ninety-three Senators voted to support this bill and
> now most of Congress: a roster of names that will live in infamy in the
> history of our nation, and never be expunged from the dark column of the
> history books. ****
>
> They may have supported this bill because—although it's hard to
> believe—they think the military will only arrest active members of Al
> Qaida; or maybe, less naively, they believe that 'at most', low-level
> dissenting figures, activists, or troublesome protesters might be subjected
> to military arrest. But they are forgetting something critical: history
> shows that those who signed this bill will soon be subject to arrest
> themselves.****
>
> Our leaders appear to be supporting this bill thinking that they will
> always be what they are now, in the fading light of a once-great democracy
> — those civilian leaders who safely and securely sit in freedom and DIRECT
> the military. In inhabiting this bubble, which their own actions are about
> to destroy, they are cocooned by an arrogance of power, placing their own
> security in jeopardy by their own hands, and ignoring history and its
> inevitable laws. The moment this bill becomes law, though Congress is
> accustomed, in a weak democracy, to being the ones who direct and control
> the military, the power roles will reverse: Congress will no longer be
> directing and in charge of the military: rather, the military will be
> directing and in charge of individual Congressional leaders, as well as in
> charge of everyone else — as any Parliamentarian in any society who handed
> this power over to the military can attest.****
>
> Perhaps Congress assumes that it will always only be 'they' who are
> targeted for arrest and military detention: but sadly, Parliamentary
> leaders are the first to face pressure, threats, arrest and even violence
> when the military obtains to power to make civilian arrests and hold
> civilians in military facilities without due process. There is no exception
> to this rule. Just as I traveled the country four years ago warning against
> the introduction of torture and secret prisons – and confidently offering a
> hundred thousand dollar reward to anyone who could name a nation that
> allowed torture of the 'other' that did not eventually turn this abuse on
> its own citizens — (confident because I knew there was no such place) — so
> today I warn that one cannot name a nation that gave the military the power
> to make civilian arrests and hold citizens in military detention, that did
> not almost at once turn that power almost against members of that nation's
> own political ruling class. This makes sense — the obverse sense of a
> democracy, in which power protects you; political power endangers you in a
> militarized police state: the more powerful a political leader is, the more
> can be gained in a militarized police state by pressuring, threatening or
> even arresting him or her.****
>
> Mussolini, who created the modern template for fascism, was a duly elected
> official when he started to direct paramilitary forces against Italian
> citizens: yes, he sent the Blackshirts to beat up journalists, editors, and
> union leaders; but where did these militarized groups appear most
> dramatically and terrifyingly, snapping at last the fragile hold of Italian
> democracy? In the halls of the Italian Parliament. Whom did they physically
> attack and intimidate? Mussolini's former colleagues in Parliament — as
> they sat, just as our Congress is doing, peacefully deliberating and
> debating the laws. Whom did Hitler's Brownshirts arrest in the first wave
> of mass arrests in 1933? Yes, journalists, union leaders and editors; but
> they also targeted local and regional political leaders and dragged them
> off to secret prisons and to torture that the rest of society had turned a
> blind eye to when it had been directed at the 'other.' Who was most at risk
> from assassination or arrest and torture, after show trials, in Stalin's
> Russia? Yes, journalists, editors and dissidents: but also physically
> endangered, and often arrested by militarized police and tortured or worse,
> were senior members of the Politburo who had fallen out of favor.****
>
> Is this intimidation and arrest by the military a vestige of the past?
> Hardly. We forget in America that all over the world there are militarized
> societies in which shells of democracy are propped up — in which Parliament
> meets regularly and elections are held, but the generals are really in
> charge, just as the Egyptian military is proposing with upcoming elections
> and the Constitution itself. That is exactly what will take place if
> Congress gives the power of arrest and detention to the military: and in
> those societies if a given political leader does not please the generals,
> he or she is in physical danger or subjected to military arrest. Whom did
> John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, say he was
> directed to intimidate and threaten when he worked as a 'jackal', putting
> pressure on the leadership in authoritarian countries? Latin American
> parliamentarians who were in the position to decide the laws that affected
> the well-being of his corporate clients. Who is under house arrest by the
> military in Myanmar? The political leader of the opposition to the military
> junta. Malalai Joya is an Afghani parliamentarian who has run afoul of the
> military and has to sleep in a different venue every night — for her own
> safety. An on, and on, in police states — that is, countries with military
> detention of civilians — that America is about to join.****
>
> US Congresspeople and Senators may think that their power protects them
> from the treacherous wording of Amendments 1031 and 1032: but their
> arrogance is leading them to a blindness that is suicidal. The moment they
> sign this NDAA into law, history shows that they themselves and their staff
> are the most physically endangered by it. They will immediately become, not
> the masters of the great might of the United States military, but its
> subjects and even, if history is any guide — and every single outcome of
> ramping up police state powers, unfortunately, that I have warned for years
> that history points to, has come to pass — sadly but inevitably, its very
> first targets.****
>
> *Author, social critic, and political activist Naomi Wolf raises awareness
> of the pervasive inequities that exist in society and politics. Wolf's New
> York Times bestseller, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young
> Patriot, is an impassioned call to return to the aspirations and beliefs of
> the Founders' ideals of liberty. The New York Times called the documentary
> version "pointedly inflammatory." Her latest book, Give Me Liberty: A
> Handbook For American Revolutionaries, includes effective tools for
> citizens to promote civic engagement and create sustainable democracy.*****
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