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I am sometimes baffled by how quickly many people quickly assume that because they were not personally named in some piece of legislation, that somehow the provisions of that legislation do not and could not apply to them. Having spent a great deal of time over the years dissecting legislative language, backtracking changes to code & title and the ever popular “redefinition of terms” used to change the entire common understanding of what a word or phrase means within these tortured constructs called legislation, I know better.
My recent article on S.1867 elicited comments to the effect that a few commenters had read the bill and that I was simply being inflammatory and emotional. Yes…..of course….that must be it.
Lest anyone forget:
- The insidious Patriot Act followed by
- The Security Enhancement Act of 2003,
- the infamous Military Commissions Act 2006,
- followed by the John Warner Defense Authorization Act 2007 and,
- which called for the suspension of habeas corpus (4th Amendment due process)
- all of which gave the president the power to arbitrarily determine on his own, that any one of us was a “domestic terrorist” and going even further to
- allow the president to strip us of our citizenship at his discretion with no oversight.
Each of these unconstitutional bills was a piece of the puzzle being constructed incrementally as the Constitution and our rights were being trashed.
These anti-American laws were not the only affront to the Constitution, our rights and the advancement of the police state. Now why, you might be asking, would anyone want to give the president of the United States the arbitrary authority to strip any US citizen of their citizenship with no evidence other than his/her belief that one of us is a terrorist, or supports terrorism, without the evidence supporting that contention, or being officially charged with a crime? Hmmm. Where to start on this one.
Let’s go back to the redefining of prisoners of war (POW’s) as “enemy combatants”. This change in terminology allowed the Bush regime, and now Obama, to by-pass the Geneva conventions on treatment of prisoners, including what has become our government’s proclivity for torture and avoided much of the international rules of war. It didn’t seem like much at the time, but we know now that it was to redefine the individuals targeted; if we don’t call them prisoners of war we don’t have to abide by the rules. Simple.
Next came Homeland Security’s determination that US citizens who oppose government policy, mention the Constitution, support third party candidates like Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin, were to viewed as possible domestic terrorists along with social advocates, religious advocates and anyone who attended a rally or protest among many other things.
This was followed by the discovery of Homeland Security documents describing who was to be viewed as a clear and present danger to the federal government (not the country) citing the use of REX84 black ops program along with Presidential Directive 51, that no one has been allowed to see, to conduct “Knock & Talk , Sneak & Peek, checkpoints; exigent search and seizure; meaning far more than what would be determined reasonable.
Next came the launching of TSA which had been planned long before 9/11. The unlawful detaining of legal US citizens with the accompanying exigent search and molestation continues to this day for no other reason than they are traveling. HSD has compiled no-fly lists, suspect lists, black lists, suspected domestic terrorists list and a host of other lists most of will never know we are on for reasons we will never actually know. Originally called Total Information Awareness (TIA), the program was shut down in 2003. Like all things the government does, TIA never went anywhere but simply got parceled out to other agencies making it harder to track while the core program was simply renamed TSA.
Most recently, Obama has approved a new program which allows him to authorize the targeted killing of people in foreign countries that the administration decides is a threat (to them) and includes targeting of US citizens right here at home and abroad. This program, which is nothing more than sanctified murder, is a violation of international laws which prohibit the killing of individuals outside of armed combat zones.
The program will allow the CIA or the military the unchecked authority to murder at will, US citizens and others, around the globe without any evidence of crime, threat or violent activity towards the United States, other than they said so.
The intent through all of these assaults on the Constitution and our protected rights has been to find the means to redefine any one of us as a non-military enemy combatant to facilitate the police state. Once redefined, once the definitive description of who and what we are has been altered to suit the government agenda, it is open season on any one of us.
This brings us right back to S. 1867 Defense Authorization Act of 2011. The striking of an amendment stating clearly:
S.1254 included Section 1031
(d) Constitutional Limitation on Applicability to United States Persons- The authority to detain a person under this section does not extend to the detention of citizens or lawful resident aliens of the United States on the basis of conduct taking place within the United States except to the extent permitted by the Constitution of the United States.
http://www.govtrack.us
S.1254 was the predecessor to S.1867 and the latter no longer contains this provision. Now why would anyone remove what is clearly a section meant to protect the citizens of the United States from the actions of their own government?
Section 1031 d) now reads:
Construction- Nothing in this section is intended to limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force. http://www.govtrack.us
Considering the president has already been given the authority to strip us of our citizenship, declare us a domestic terrorist and non-military enemy combatant, and to have us killed if he chooses to what is there to limit or expand?
In what is clearly an effort to manipulate public thinking,
Sen. Lindsey Graham said about it on the Senate floor:
CSPAN video
“1031, the statement of authority to detain, does apply to American citizens and it designates the world as the battlefield, including the homeland.”
Apparently, I was not as inflammatory and emotional as some would have you believe. Shocked, maybe. Angered for sure.
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- https://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/s-1867-hunting-americans/
- https://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
- http://www.constitution.org/abus/terror/dsea2003.htm
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/MC_Act-2006.html
- http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-5122
- http://www.angeloffaith777.com/uploads/2/4/9/0/2490131/dhs_rightwingextremistreport.pdf
- http://www.govtrack.us
- http://www.govtrack.us
prayerwarriorpsychicnot
Mar 20, 2014 @ 18:24:52
Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs.
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Dec 06, 2011 @ 01:40:05
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tutuis44
Dec 02, 2011 @ 14:26:41
Joseph
You go and try that little maneuver somewhere else and I GUARANTEE you will wind up in jail, possibly after being beaten and shot. Texas is not the rest of the country and I assure you, those who brought these conditions to the rest of the country, would like to bring it there too!
Things are bad and are going to get worse because they appoint the judges and the judges they appoint agree with them, that the constitution means something other that freedom and liberty for the people.
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Dec 02, 2011 @ 14:26:17
Terry O'Donnell
Dec 02, 2011 @ 05:54:58
Not much new here Marti… To add more to our worry box… in 1985, all reference to supporting the U.S. Constitution was removed from the oath of office of our U.S. Marshals service… now the oath states they will enforce the “Laws of the United States” Keep in mind, Hitler had laws, Stalin had laws etc etc….. just something more to ponder…. as it’s my understanding that the only law enforcement agency with the the authority to arrest the president….. won’t……
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Joseph
Dec 02, 2011 @ 02:02:40
It’s really funny how alot of folks don’t read the Constitution, and how it can work for them. I’ll give you an example: I live here in west Texas, and they started having road blocks, so that they could check for License and Insurance. When it came my turn to be questioned, I produced my copy of the constitution and asked the officer if he knew what the fourth ammendment was anf low and behold, he said no. So me being who I am. (True American) shoed it to him and told me I could go without having to prove anything. So again the police had anothe road block two weeks later, and the officer that I had the first time actually walked swiftly away, and then another officer showed and I did the same thing with him , but this time I asked for the phone number of the police chief. I confronted the cheif and asked him to show me where this law is and he could not show me. so now what do you think, if you have the right amunition you need not be afraid. I will not bow down to no one no matter who they might be especially if they are steppin on my constitution, being The Americam Constiitution
Joseph Lambert
PS they stopped the illeagle road blocks because I stood up.
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hybridrogue1
Dec 01, 2011 @ 05:04:13
Ellipser is right, “The chickens have come home to roost.” as Malcolm said.
Anti-Constitutional?? Well it has some trixie dixie words too.
Go back to Shays Rebellion, and see what motivated the Federalist to write this document behind closed doors. It was a bloodless coup d’etat by the elites of the day – who feared “too much democracy.”
Note also, that the writ of Habeas Corpus is framed as a “Privilege” not a “Right” in the body of the document.
Note as well that the “Bill of Rights” was forced on the Federalists who resisted until the passage of the new constitution was on the brink of not being ratified without one.
It’s curious that every generation of Amerikans looks up at some point and sees that a Police State is “just now in the works”…
“One Nation” means that the “federal” republic is BS – it is a National republic under the Constitution. In real effect the states are annexed and NOT sovereign under this document.
YOU may read it as a common law document – the National government reads it in statutory language…and ne’er the twain shall meet.
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Bradley
Dec 01, 2011 @ 04:46:28
So the Prez can jail his political enemies indefinitely. Where’d they go? Can’t tell you – state secret.
Hail Caesar. Congress is dumber than a box of rocks.
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mile
Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:21:39
forgot that destruction of a consumer economy is meaningless to legal insider trader manipulators.
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mile
Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:18:14
now i know what explains the sadness i feel with every dime i spend, along with the fear of being witthout at least a wall of protection from those who would do me harm,..cant realy be good for an economy based on consumption rather than production ..eh……
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Apolitical Blues
Nov 30, 2011 @ 23:46:19
We are fortunate to have a law to govern government; too bad that law, the Constitution, is being used to kindle the flames of rage smoldering among us.
I’m glad I stopped here to read what you have to say and, agree with a lot of the comments. Whether you agree or, not the Second American Revolution is coming. The big question is, will it happen before or, after WWIII?
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ima shore
Nov 30, 2011 @ 23:25:26
your military, my dear deluded americans, is a mercenary organization, paid to do the will of the officials that dominate it…if that means kill iraqis, then so be it…kill commies, patriots, teabaggers etc etc then so be it!…your military has been chosen from the poorest and most under-educated, ( note I did not say stupid) people of your land…..a plan that started a while ago, when it was decided that critical thinking should be the first thing to be phased out in schools.
have no doubt:- they will kill and torture you in the blink of an eye or should I say, in the time it takes to shout “YESSIR!” if the order is given.
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guarnerigal
Nov 30, 2011 @ 22:15:06
Great article indeed. You’ve captured the feelings that have escalated in me since 2000. I’ve been weeping openly for the ongoing destruction on a nearly daily basis since then.
My question is this. When, does anyone think, we might be able to turn this program of destruction around and again celebrate our now alienable rights returned to their inalienable status?
Without the rights liberties that have been systematically removed, there is no America. There are no Americans.
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Joe Erisman
Nov 30, 2011 @ 21:24:30
Eisenhower started the ball rolling on denial of Geneva conventions for prisoners of war by re-labelling them disarmed enemy forces, and denial of International Red Cross to access, as with no German State there could not be German Prisoners’ of War thus their duties were over. Bush has given us ‘enemy combatants’ but an old dictionaries I have not at hand defines a prisoner of war as a national who is detained by another’s’ nations military.
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t-bagg
Nov 30, 2011 @ 20:10:38
The way the world is turning out right now, is almost exactly the way Satanists would want things to occur. Evil is looming. when I was in my 20’s a decade ago, I remember having an incredible feeling that something very soon was going to happen and it was going to change the world in a negative way. I got that feeling about 2 months before 9/11.
I have been very carefully following politics and current events ever since. The looming World Depression is next. It is so close I can almost feel it. Soon the global elite will take over the remaining hold out countries (axis of evil) and then buy up everything for pennies on the dollar and completely own everything. We will be slaves if we are lucky enough to survive the next 10 years.
On a positive note; Silver is up $2.00 last time I checked. Celebrate this Xmas like it will be your last…
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willy
Nov 30, 2011 @ 19:07:21
Illegal laws are null and void.
They can’t just make a law as they see fit- there is the constitution to stop this, so I do not recognize this law and nor should anyone else, and use the authority of the constitution to use what ever force needed to resist it- legally.
Looks like the government just declared war on the people.
Just as has happened in the past (like Roman times).
The scum do learn from history don’t they?
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Michael
Nov 30, 2011 @ 16:30:27
It is my hope that the men and women of the military will not have the heart to pull grandma and grandpa from their home and water board them. This time in this country, the military will be doing violence to their own. They might wake up and tell their officers no and take a stand. That is my hope. Hey, it’s ok to have hope. What we need to do now is to talk to our relatives in the military about such possibilities and make them aware that they might be used against everything they were taught to believe in including the Constitution. Also every incumbent must be voted out of office.
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David McElroy
Nov 30, 2011 @ 14:18:58
Right on, Marti! The enemy moves by stealth in increments as it creeps toward killing us. Sadly, many are like those little birds who unwittingly follow the trail of bread crumbs oblivious to the net about to be dropped on them. Of course, the “public fool system” and the media have conditioned and blindered the people as beasts of burden to neither see nor comprehend the “Big Picture” even when it is in front of their faces. Live free or die trying!
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BRUCE BOHN
Nov 30, 2011 @ 13:48:43
THE FED GOV’T HAS BEEN MURDERING AND OR INCARCERATING
PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR MANY DECADES!
SEDITION TRIALS,DISAPPEARANCES, “SUICIDES”, PLANE CRASH’S,
POLITICAL & ECONOMIC ASSASANATIONS, FALSE FLAG OPS.
ECT. ECT…. THIS JUST SIMPLY MAKES IT LEGAL! WE ARE A ZOG…
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babette
Nov 30, 2011 @ 12:05:44
Very good article. Thanks. Also, I entirely agree with Ellipser. Every word.
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Nov 30, 2011 @ 11:38:58
anadianant
Nov 30, 2011 @ 11:37:51
Nice article. The beauty is that this goes back farther, much farther than this last 10-12 years of the vice being tightened.
It goes back to Popes, Papal Bulls, Nicea, Canon Law….. nothing, NOTHING is what/how it seems.
No-thing.
We owe it to our-selves to seek a better path, inwards first.
Vivek
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/the-plan/
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Ellipser
Nov 30, 2011 @ 07:56:44
The same US military that helped carry out the September 11th attacks, slaughtered millions of Muslims , made death by torture legal, STEAL whatever land, drugs and oil that they really do feel belongs only to them (zionists), is now going to finish the job –at home.
Who didn’t see it coming? America? Looks like it.
They are about to do everything they’ve been doing in the middle east and bring it back home.
The last ten years has been nothing but a practice run just to see if too many American citizens have been wise to them in their nazi-like PNAC project. Looks like they feel America is perfectly ripe for the harvest.
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Carmel Garcia
Nov 30, 2011 @ 05:31:36
This should make you heck ‘uv mad. There’s nothing to stop him now.
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Joseph
Nov 30, 2011 @ 03:17:56
I just hope the military remembers how they were treated both here and abroad, and that it was not the citizens of the United States that brought this plight upon them. I know that they understand what is being said.
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Tim Strong
Nov 29, 2011 @ 23:25:56
Great article, even though I am now scared shitless. Good luck America.
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onephoenix
Nov 29, 2011 @ 21:12:31
Outstanding article, by someone who tracks down EVERY WORD in or not in bills.
Thank you for the great work.
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