Sunday, October 12, 2008

The End of the Rule of Law in America

US troops are back home in America to wage war upon the people of the US. New laws make public dissent of any kind --however peaceful --an act of 'terrorism'. Congress was threatened with martial law, literally blackmailed, into passing the infamous and ineffective bailout! The threat of martial law, therefore, is not only in the official record, it is made clear with the arrival of US troops withdrawn from Iraq to patrol US streets, control crowds, deal with 'civil unrest'. Bluntly --they are here to wage war on you unless you happen to be among the one percent who owns more than 90 percent of the nation's total wealth.

It was in 1999 that the government contracted to Kellogg, Brown and Root [KBR], a subsidiary of Dick Cheney's Halliburton, huge contracts to build a FEMA archipelago of 800 camps in secret locations across the US. They have ovens. They have --at their disposal --the government's recent acquisition of about 500,000 plastic coffins. What is the 'innocent' explanation for this secret that is no secret?

There is no innocent explanation! The new laws seem designed to fill up the camps. Peaceful activists may be arrested, detained and denied 'Due Process of Law' if anyone in authority but 'deems' one to be a 'terrorist'. Any public dissent of any type --however peaceful --is defined to be an act of 'terrorism'. Free speech is dead. You may no longer express a contrary opinion where it can be heard and thus 'deemed' to be an act of terrorism. This has been true in airports for some time now.
According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."

--SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle, Rule by fear or rule by law?
The Army Times --hardly a 'conspiracy site' --issued a complete story about a combat brigade that has been withdrawn from Iraq to civilian duty in the US --duty that will include shooting at American citizens with 'rubber bullets', tasering folk, stopping vehicular traffic, using shields' and 'batons'!
The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.”

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

...

The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

“I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body.

“I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.”

--Army Times, Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
What does the the government fear from citizens who would otherwise be happy with their governments if they were not daily threatened and blackmailed with martial law?


The Congress was literally blackmailed and threatened. There were warnings of drastic drops in the stock markets. The bailout was passed --under duress --but the stock market collapsed anyway!
Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. But the real question is: What kind of "new programs" require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people?

Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to "a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."

The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.

Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure "continuity of government" in the event of what the document vaguely calls a "catastrophic emergency." Should the president determine that such an emergency has occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary to ensure "continuity of government." This could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a new way to expand the domestic "war on terror." Her Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955), which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would set up a commission to "examine and report upon the facts and causes" of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations on combatting it.

According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping investigative power to combat it.

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--SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle, Rule by fear or rule by law?
Perhaps the 'new programs' referred to are the sweeping laws which, in fact, create a police state. A new program is most certainly the use of the US military for 'crowd control' and 'civil unrest'. I would have expected this criminal affront to the Constitution from a gopper --but from a Democrat, it is the unkindest cut of all! Et tu, Brute!
Earlier this week, Congressman Michael C. Burgess from the 26th District of Texas, went public on Monday stating live on Infowars nationwide radio broadcast, that House speaker Nancy Pelosi had declared House Rule 136A, effectively putting the House under "Martial Law" rules, a dictatorial measure only activated during times of national emergency.

Analysts and Congressmen alike have equated these threats;to "fearmongering" and described as a form of "economic terrorism" carried out powerful banking interests in order to secure the record $850 billion payout to the banks by the American people.

Physical Martial law may be invoked by the President of the United States in case of any deemed "state of emergency". Martial Law has not been put into practice since Lincoln, where several Congressmen were arrested or put under house arrest. In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval. However, both the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and USNORTHCOM has increased its direct involvement with US civilian administration. Additionally, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, and President Bush's recent PD51 may possibly rescind previous limits by suspending Government as well as other Constitutional guarantees such as habeas corpus.

--Representatives Were Threatened with "Martial Law" if Bailout Bill Did Not Pass

That US troops are deployed in order to wage war upon the people of the US is evidence that the Police State has already been declared. It's a Bush fait accompli. US Troops have no legitimate business patrolling US streets in the absence of a 'real' emergency. A Bush pretext will provide one!

If the high court had not been packed with the likes of Scalia, Alito, Roberts, and Thomas one might might have believed that such draconian, totalitarian measures would be struck down. One is no longer confident. The measure will stand because our once free nation is no longer. It will stand because what previous courts had declared to be protected rights under the First Amendment have been trashed by Bush and his co-conspirators in the judiciary.

The use of US troops against US citizens is, in fact, against federal law and the Constitution. Everything that the Army Times says the Brigade is trained for violates the original prohibition against the use of the military as a Posse Comitatus.

Has this nation already acted in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act? The horrifying use of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other weapons of war in the military-style assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco was but a preview, a harbinger of things to come.
The allegations of child molestation were investigated in the intervening two years, twice, by Texas welfare department authorities and found to be baseless. The Sheriff's department investigated the allegations of illegal guns and these claims were found to be baseless. The investigations were peaceful. There were no problems.

Mark Breault, however, continued to make his baseless and slanderous allegations against the Branch Davidians. The Cult Awareness Network turned up the pressure.

The newspapers called Breault a "private investigator who has tracked the Davidians for two and a half years." "Tracked"? They had lived at the Mt. Carmel Center since 1935. How much "tracking" did it take? "Investigator"? Ha. He's a self-proclaimed "prophet" with a vendetta against the Branch Davidians. And who paid him so handsomely that he could afford to "track" them for 2-1/2 years, anyway? Did the media bother to check any of this out? Never.

...Calling a religion a "cult" and putting out false information across the media about "child molesting" and "weapons caches" is exactly the same technique that was used by the Nazis to portray the Jews as filthy, disgusting people, so they could be killed. It is the same technique used by every tyrannical government, to kill an unpopular and potentially vocal adversarial group. But in this country, we are supposed to have freedom of religion. It would seem that is a pipe dream.

...

So, America, we have cold-blooded killers running our country. Isn't it about time you put down your beer, got up off the sofa, and did something about it?

--Linda Thompson, What Hapened at Waco
The ATF attack on Mt. Carmel should have been a wake up call. If anyone in the Clinton administration deserved impeachment, it should have resulted from what happened in Waco. But --no! There was no GOP outrage because the GOP might have ordered worse themselves and did not wish to establish a precedent that they didn't want to live with later. I can't recall a single word uttered by the GOP in defense of the Constitution. I cannot recall a single GOP voice raised in defense of the guaranteed right of religion or free speech!

I cannot recall a single GOP voice raised to protest the violations of Due Process of Law! I cannot recall a single GOP voice in opposition to the jack-booted thugs who brought to an end a rule of law in America! The GOP would, instead, try to impeach the president for a blow job --an act that is not even a crime!

The GOP coveted Clinton his position because, as the record has proven, they intended to make of the White House a platform from which they would establish their own dictatorship. Under Bush, it is a fait accompli.

In the meantime, some 800 FEMA camps are readied --with ovens and Nazi-like barracks --to receive dissenters. Here's an excerpt from one person's report of a visit to a KBR FEMA camp:
"The first one we observed was in Palmdale, California. It is not operating as a prison at the moment but is masquerading as part of a water facility. Now why would there be a facility of this nature out in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no prisoners?

The fences that run for miles around this large facility all point inward, and there are large mounds of dirt and dry moat surrounding the central area so the inside area is not visible from the road. There are 3 large loading docks facing the entrance that can be observed from the road. What are these massive docks going to be loading?

We observed white vans patrolling the area and one came out and greeted us with a friendly wave and followed us until we had driven safely beyond the area. What would have happened had we decided to enter the open gate or ask questions?

This facility is across the street from the Palmdale Water Department. The area around the Water Department has fences pointing outward, to keep people out of this dangerous area so as not to drown. Yet, across the street, the fences all point inward. Why? To keep people in? What people? Who are going to be it’s occupants? There are also signs posted every 50 feet stating: State of California Trespassing Loitering Forbidden By Law Section 555 California Penal Code."
I believe that the 'goddamned piece of paper' --otherwise known as the Constitution of the United States --makes the use of armed forces against American citizens on American soil a matter of 'high treason' i.,e the government waging 'war' upon the people, a matter that is expressly forbidden by the "Goddamn Piece of Paper", Article III:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

--US Constitution, Article III
Under the 'goddamned piece of paper' (know to us as the US Constitution) the people of the US are the 'sovereign'. We ARE the United States --by law! By waging war upon us --the people of the United States --Bush has already committed mass murder and high treason. [See: Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution]

Additionally --
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

--US Constitution, Amendment III
There is also the matter of the abusive use of military personnel to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens:
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

US Codes, § 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus
of the U.S. Army against the American people?

-- Of course, none of this means anything to George W. Bush, a would be dictator for whom the rule of law means nothing, the Constitution is 'just a goddamned piece of paper". Bush is the price we pay for our failure as a nation to value the gift of intelligence. We might have done better had we paid attention to the great philosopher who wrote of the 'moral imperative to be intelligent'.

Bush is an incompetent boob who has, in fact, bankrupted the nation, violated the Constitutional rights of US citizens and has waged war upon them with acts of high treason and mass murder --capital crimes for which he should stand trial for his life. The charges to include thousands of violations of US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441.
(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

--TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441. War crimes

Winston Churchill wrote:
""The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

-- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943"
Bush repeatedly asserts a power to imprison anyone without charges --no phone call, no lawyer, no hearing, no trial! The Army Times stated that the troops --formerly in Iraq --will be used domestically for 'crowd control' in cases of civil unrest. And within days of the Army Times 'story', it was revealed that the Bush administration had threatened 'Martial Law' if the bailout bill was not passed. Therefore, we are already living in a police state. And there is likewise a warning.
People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

--Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Guerilla Warfare
It was stated recently that the troops will be on 'our side'. Well --our troops will be taking their orders from the government. And the government is NO LONGER on our side.

And --on our side against whom? More phony terrorists?

The 'terrorists' ARE the government and, as Che would have put it: the peace is already broken.

Government is legitimate ONLY to the extent that it lives up to its SOCIAL CONTRACT with the people. The government of the US has broken that contract! Repeatedly and with impunity. This 'government' is illegitimate!


Scott Ritter: "Pick Your City"

The war waged upon the people of the US will get worse and the people will push back. The people --as a body -- must declare now that no decree now issued is valid, no unjust law enforceable! The revolution has begun and the illegitimate government in DC has won the first several rounds. With US troops in the streets, it is naive to believe that upon a landslide win by Obama, the entrenched militarists will simply fold up their tents and ride willingly into that dimming sunset.

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14 comments:

jae said...

Largest employers of Palmdale, CA:

Lockheed Martin 3,700
Northrop Grumman 2,100
Boeing 850

The plot thickens.

tiago said...

Len;
I enjoy reading the comments on any post. That is one reason it takes me so long to read posts on your site, Information Clearing House and a few other sites, (and my lips do get tired). I also follow links that interest me and that takes time as well. It is sad that jae did not explain why they removed their post.
I have posted bs in the Slate comments section and had this pointed out to me. I am glad and admitted in the comments section how I was taken in by a hoax, (exactly, unless the hoax originated from a friend or relative).
Concerning the We Ain’t Coming Out, fiasco, Mark Breault does not seem to be a household name. A search comes up with a musical group and a Chiropractor. Who, exactly was he?
I do believe Janet Reno and the ATF should have been brought to account on Waco. There are too many questions and burning the place down sure showed a lot of concern for those poor mistreated juveniles, (but it was an accident, right?).
I was taken in by the charade at the time and only reflected on the events when reading Timothy McVeigh’s reason for the Oklahoma City bombing.
But Waco was not the only place the heavy hand ATF was displayed. I faintly remember when an ATF sniper killed a man’s wife by ‘mistake’ on the Indian Reservation in South Dakota, (or perhaps it was Nebraska). If that bastard could not identify his target, what was he doing with a gun or even pulling the trigger?
Contingency plans for taking over entire cities have been on military drawing boards since Nixon’s time. One caution stressed in plans I have read was not using troops from that city or state. It was an open invitation to rebellion within the ranks. A brigade consists of a minimum 1500 men, (before Rummy privatized the military), drawn from all over the US. I am more concerned that the Brigade would be used for cover and Blackwater would be the shock troops.

tiago said...

Len;
Off the topic, but . . . .
I claim dementia, (as good enough excuse as any).
Larisa Alexandrovna has changed her site format and now posts a teaser that must be followed to get the whole story. What I missed by not following that teaser is this hate advertisement on JFK. You can see the ad @:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7405034
or
http://www.atlargely.com/2008/10/playing-with-ha.html

The ad was posted in Dallas the day before Kennedy was assassinated. It is sickening. Why do I claim dementia; because I e-mailed you 3 times since this was posted in my in box and did not mention it before.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the bushevik ussa.

Lock and load, people. The only thing that will save America now is another revolution and civil war.

Will you be ready when the day comes to reclaim America?

Anonymous said...

Len;

It goes without saying that I enjoy your commentaries and find them to be exactly on track. On the issue of Martial Law, I'm working on a piece right now that does express some hope - something we desperately need as we watch the United States leaping into the bowels of fascism.

Arizona stated they would secede from the Union if Bush declares Martial Law, and I believe there are a minimum of 34 states that have expressed similar plans. The public is beginning to react - making those calls which are vital to force our lawmakers to act - and while on the federal level, the corruption is so prevalent in Congress that it may be our State Legislatures that make the difference. I can see where Bush could put-down an impromptu uprising by the people - but if some of our states start seceding, there aren't enough troops at the government's disposal to even make a dent in what it would take to stop that effort - short of a full-scale civil war.

William Cormier

Anonymous said...

Silly terrorist. The Constitution no longer applies...

SadButTrue said...

" Lock and load, people. The only thing that will save America now is another revolution and civil war. " - anonymous

The thing is, the second American Revolution, should there be one, will not look so much like the first, but more like the French Revolution. Most significantly the revolutions will not have a home court advantage - the enemy will not be on the other side of the Atlantic, with the logistics problems that entails.

Maybe that's what Bush meant by 'Oceans no longer protect us.' He was warning potential dissidents.

Unknown said...

tiago sez...

I do believe Janet Reno and the ATF should have been brought to account on Waco. There are too many questions and burning the place down sure showed a lot of concern for those poor mistreated juveniles, (but it was an accident, right?). I was taken in by the charade at the time and only reflected on the events when reading Timothy McVeigh’s reason for the Oklahoma City bombing.

Clinton lost my support following Waco. I rallied, however, when the GOP went after him. If Clinton were to have been impeached, it should have been for something impeachable ---whatever role he may have played by NOT countermanding Reno and failing to hold her to account.

Waco was a state crime perpetrated upon people who had broken absolutely no laws whatsoever. The FBI also lied about Waco. The local sheriff investigated, in fact, talked with Koresh on numerous occassion and found no probable cause that any crime had ever been committed at any time. The guns were legal! .Complaints against them were absolutely baseless. The Davidians were practicing their constitutional right to worship as they chose. Their only mistake was trusting the government to ensure those rights. Briefly --the Davidians were murdered by agents acting under the authority of the US government.

Anonymous said...

Lock and load, people. The only thing that will save America now is another revolution and civil war.

But only if it is a 'smart' revolution. Government troops are little more than armored robots now. Fighting them on THEIR turf is suicide and does the cause of revolution no good. The government would like nothing better than to open fire upon unarmed demonstrators as they did at Kent State. One of the tragic things about Kent State is that a peaceful demonstration had already broken up. The 'National Guard' fired upon unarmed students who had EVERY RIGHT to be where they were and doing what they were doing. This is another case of the 'state' murdering citizens of the United States. And --again --no one was held to account.

William Cormier said...

Arizona stated they would secede from the Union if Bush declares Martial Law, and I believe there are a minimum of 34 states that have expressed similar plans. ...I can see where Bush could put-down an impromptu uprising by the people - but if some of our states start seceding, there aren't enough troops at the government's disposal to even make a dent in what it would take to stop that effort - short of a full-scale civil war.


Arizona has a GDP equal to that of Thailand, California that of France and Texas that of Canada. If enough states secede DC (read: mafia) would be hard pressed to occupy. Much of US domestic power is exerted by proxy. Secessions must be done more or less simultaneously to discourage DC from merely 'picking off' the domestic opposition piece meal.

I also found the following information on the Free State Project Forum:

"Total Resistance", which is the legendary work by the famed Swiss expert on guerrilla warfare, Major H. von Dach. When it comes to the technological advances that have taken place since the book's publishing, you just have to use your imagination. More important and more relevant than any of the military information given in the book are the sections that deal with the organization of a civillian resistance movement.

SadButTrue said...

The thing is, the second American Revolution, should there be one, will not look so much like the first, but more like the French Revolution.

I agree! The Revolution of 1776 is bettered compared to an insurgency against a foreign occupation. William Pitt certainly thought so and defended the American resort to arms against a 'foreign troop'. A true revolution upon a 'government' on native soil is something else again. A secession of some thirty four (or more) states has a better chance of succeeding in that 'Federal Troops' ordered by Washington to, say, California or Arizona become a foreign invader.

Anonymous said...

Do you really think that Obama is not involved in this as well? They are all in it. Otherwise they would not be where they are right now. Do not let grade school partisanship cloud the real story. Bush, Pelosi, Reid...all of them are in this thing. There has NEVER been government for the people, by the people. And believe me, it will not be so with either candidate. We are not deciding this outcome. It has already been decided for us.
Wag the dog has nothing on these people. What else would you expect? They think they own the world. Are they gonna hand it over to you or me just because we "vote" for some talking head?
It is time for everyone to grow up and see things how they really are, and being Democrat or Republican means absolutely NOTHING!

Unknown said...

Anonymous said...

Do you really think that Obama is not involved in this as well? They are all in it. Otherwise they would not be where they are right now.

Don't attribute positions to me I haven't taken.

Secondly, I have repeatedly written on this blog that the Demos and Gops are two wings of a single party. That's not just rhetoric, it is an historical fact.

Thirdly, of the two wings, the Democrats are preferable by ANY standard. That's not to say that they are good or saintly. They 'ain't'.

At last --the charges I've made against BUSH personally meet a LEGAL STANDARD. I could prosecute that bastard for mass murder and high treason myself.

I don't have even 'probable cause' against Obama.

What we REALLY need to guard against are strawmen fallacies and wide brushes.

As for the GOP ---it is not a political party, it's a crime syndicate as well as a kooky cult. The Democrats are not nearly so well organized that they could have pulled off the heist of an entire nation for the benefit of a small cadre, a handful of militarists and corporate CEOs.

Anonymous said...

Dear America, if you are fearful that terrorists will invade your country you need no longer worry.

They are already here.

They wear military uniforms and carry m-16s and drive pain ray trucks and call themselves Blackwater and wear suits and ties and have big plush offices with nice city views and spew out their pre-written propaganda political hate speeches on tv.

RIP, America.

Anonymous said...

Dear Len,

Scarry factual article.

However - please notice the purpose of this crecendo of "martial law"?

If it was to actually enact martial law, it would have been enacted without any fanfare. Don't you think?

I don't believe it is time yet. And therefore, I do believe there is time for concerned citizens of the United States to work through their available consitutional means.

If only the United States Congress would show some courage.

I could be entirely wrong on this, but I sense all this pre "advertisement" for martial law is a psyop, a scaremongering, to condition the public mind.

Therefore, it is best to ignore it.

Please see:

http://pressreleases-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/10/pr-resp-wmr-fema-martiallaw-oct092008.html

http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/10/message-to-congress-nowornever.html

I don't believe the American people should be freakin out - okay just yet. Instead, they must write their Congresspersons, Mayors, Governors, commissioners, councilmembers, etc. Write them what?

My humble suggestion is noted in my letter to the United States Congress.

Notice that the Constitution is not yet suspended. This means, Constitutional means are still available to rectify matters.

All it needs is some leadership.

If I might be permitted to borrow the words of the famous American - for I don't actually believe that most United States persons feel this way, yet! For its full context, please see http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/09/happy-happy-in-hope-voluntary-servitude.html

If only some elected Representatives would rehearse this speech.

“There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”



Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
http://humanbeingsfirst.org

Unknown said...

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

- John Maynard Keynes

Zahir Ebrahim, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org sez...

If it was to actually enact martial law, it would have been enacted without any fanfare. Don't you think?

Well, that's too subtle for me. You have to remember that while I have traveled widely, I still hail from Texas. I take a man at his word unless he demonstrates to me that he cannot be trusted. In the case of Bushco, the only thing they can be trusted to do is consistent with an ultimate declaration of 'martial law' amid lots of bluster and typical, characteristic lies and bullshit designed to intimidate us.

Secondly, if they have not yet declared martial law, they might as well have. All Bush needs to do to drop you down a memory hole is simply call you a terrorist and --in that case --the rule of law no longers applies to you! Martial law is all but a fait accompli anyway. So --why wouldn't they do it?

I could be entirely wrong on this, but I sense all this pre "advertisement" for martial law is a psyop, a scaremongering, to condition the public mind.

At this point --I don't care what their motives are. I am working to get to a point whereby they can all be rounded up, arrested, charged, locked up where escape is impossible, awaiting trial for the numberous capital crimes that they have surely committed. To me, they are no more interesting than Hermann Goring --hardly a philosopher worthy of the attention one might give to Locke, Marx, Mill, or A.J. Ayer. Goring's pronouncements with regard to fascism and propaganda are of value in that they might have served as a warning had the American people the GUMPTION to have read and heeded them.

At this point --I have lost all patience with the Bush ilk and for different reasons those IDIOTS who simply will not learn the lessons of history. I am not sure if the American educational system has failed the American people or the American people have failed education.

Notice that the Constitution is not yet suspended. This means, Constitutional means are still available to rectify matters.

But it was! Those parts of the Constitution most relevant to individual Americans are found --not in the body --but in the Amendments, primarily the first ten, the 'Bill of Rights'. It is in the Bill of Rights that the protections of the 'rule of law', and, more precisely 'Due Process of Law' are applied specifically to individuals.

With the abrogation of habeas corpus, the reversal of the principle of 'burden of proof' and other measures decreed by Bush those protections are --unless overt measures are taken to repudiate and rescind Bush --null and avoid as long as Bush rules, as long as the 'precedent' set by him stands.

I appreciate your quoting Patrick Henry. It was Henry who had articulated my position in the same historic speech:

"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!"

Later Che Guevara said the same thing:

"When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken."

With his declaration that 'the Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper', Bush, in fact, proceeded as if the rule of law no longer applied, that his pronouncement was a fait accompli. Bush has repeatedly and, in fact, broken the peace.

A treasonous war upon the people of the US by the Bush government is already begun and underway. It remains to be seen if the election will, in fact, change a thing.

Anonymous said...

"A treasonous war upon the people of the US by the Bush government is already begun and underway" - LH

That is no doubt, if malfeasance is to be shown in any way with concerns to 9/11, it would have started from the beginning. I think they will bury as much of that incident & tragedy as they can, and much deeper then the Kennedy era assassinations. Congress failed to do it's job back then, and again, now. Most, but not all congressmen have abandoned their oath's of office, and along with that neglect, the very people for whom there were elected to serve.

benmerc