Thursday, April 19, 2012

How the Government Created a U.S. Police State

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

It was in January, 2002 that the UN Committee Against Torture condemned the treatment of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib by noting that 'indefinite detention' was a violation of the UN Convention against torture! Even worse for the U.S. is the threat that is likewise posed against citizens.  In short, if the government or the President should merely 'deem' you to be a terrorist, you can be dropped into a hole and never seen or heard from again! This continues to be a threat to all Americans of every stripe and income bracket, of every political persuasion left or right should it run afoul of 'powers that be'! The word for this is: tyranny!

The detention sections of the NDAA affirm "...the authority of the President under the AUMF, a joint resolution passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, includes the power to detain any person "...who was part of or [who] substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners". Anyone so targeted may be held indefinitely "without trial, until the end of the hostilities authorized by the [AUMF]". Of course, there is no 'end of hostilities' in an Orwellian perpetual war.

The Sixth Amendment is violated when U.S. Citizens are alllowed to be detained (locked up) indefinitely at any place in the U.S. or abroad if you are merely 'deemed' to be a terrorist! 'Probable cause' is no longer required; you may be locked up if you look funny or Arab! You may be locked up if you are merely 'deemed' to be a terrorist! There is no 'burden of proof' nor is there any requirement that the government produce 'probable cause' that you have committed a crime of any sort! American citizens may be stripped of all rights if he/she is but 'declared' or 'deemed' to be a 'terrorist', however baseless that declaration may be! Those unfortunate targets of this dictatorial, draconian, tyrannical, anti-democratic measure are subject to being snatched, dropped into an Abu Ghraib type hell-hole or --worse --a Texas gulag and never seen or heard from again!

This is a violation of the Fourth Amendment which reads:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
These measures are all gross and egregious violations of the 14th amendment prohibiting the federal government, the various states and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property in violation of DUE PROCESS OF LAW, established previously in the 4th Amendment!

This clause makes 'protections' stated clearly and unambiguously in the Bill of Rights applicable to the states. In other words, even states are subject to the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND --the Constitution! These draconian measures are not merely illegal but treasonous and those supporting them are traitors to the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and to the people of these United States which are 'sovereign' whether the polticians and lobbyists in Washington recognize that fact or not!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let US Sovereigns a train on the these Obamanable TRAITORS, INSTEAD!

Anonymous said...

I would have to say that proclaiming murder to be legal now authorizes the American citizen to 'take them out' with complete impunity as well.

We are no longer a nation of laws. It's now US against THEM. Makes no mistake about it.

Unknown said...

Thanks for posting. Of course, you are absolutely correct! Our country has ceased to be a nation of laws nor is the sovereignty of the people recognized by those whose 'rule' is enforced NOT by it legitimacy but by brute force, threat and intimidation.

jones said...

I would argue that it's even worse than this. The US Constitution says that habeas corpus shall not be suspended except in cases of invasion or insurrection. It doesn't say "the habeas corpus rights of US citizens," it is a blanket declaration, which makes sense in the context of a 900 year old legal doctrine codified by the Framers who were, significantly, ethnically British. The British legal system is largely the product of custom and precedent: the British are not citizens but subjects, and do not have a single constitution.

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I would argue that it's even worse than this. The US Constitution says that habeas corpus shall not be suspended except in cases of invasion or insurrection. It doesn't say "the habeas corpus rights of US citizens," it is a blanket declaration, which makes sense in the context of a 900 year old legal doctrine codified by the Framers who were, significantly, ethnically British. The British legal system is largely the product of custom and precedent: the British are not citizens but subjects, and do not have a single constitution. "

Angela said...

Can I say something that will inevitably sound horrible? When you talked about the Sixth Amendment saying "you may be locked up if you look funny or Arab", a creepy parallel crossed my mind. Given all the horrors the US army has done all over the world, what will happen if other countries applied the same principle and arrested indefinitely people who "look American"? Those countries would be defined "terrorist and rogue states" in less than no time by zionist-run media, namely all mainstream media.

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Angela said...

Given all the horrors the US army has done all over the world, what will happen if other countries applied the same principle and arrested indefinitely people who "look American"?

I think that will happen eventually and inevitably. For every action there is always a reaction. That's true in physics and at the human level as well. Thanks for commenting.