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Title: Suspend habeas corpus and enact martial law?
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URL Source: http://www.journalinquirer.com/arti ... /doc4ee6179b321e6127406122.txt
Published: Dec 14, 2011
Author: Chris Powell
Post Date: 2011-12-14 20:25:37 by christine
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Americans seem ready to forfeit their most basic civil liberty -- actually, all their civil liberties -- without a whimper. By a vote of 93-7 the Senate this month approved a military appropriations bill empowering the government to designate any U.S. citizen within the country as a terrorist and to have the military hold him indefinitely without trial and without the right to habeas corpus, the right to be brought before a court for a judgment on the legality of one's imprisonment. In effect the legislation is a declaration of martial law throughout the country. The bill still has to be reconciled by a conference committee with a different version passed by the House of Representatives. But even Connecticut U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Courtney, a liberal Democrat and a member of the committee, plans to support the martial law provision and expects it to be enacted. Courtney, who used to be a lawyer, cites as consolation the money contained in the bill for Connecticut military contractors, tens of millions of dollars for jet fighter engines manufactured by the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corp. in East Hartford and for nuclear submarines made by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Groton. * At least Connecticut’s junior senator, Richard Blumenthal, was one of 38 senators who voted to try to remove the martial law provision from the bill. Connecticut’s senior senator, Joseph I. Lieberman, who also used to be a lawyer but now is the Senate’s foremost advocate of perpetual imperial war, voted for martial law. The Constitution prohibits suspension of the right of habeas corpus "unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." While habeas corpus was suspended in certain circumstances during the Civil War, there is no rebellion or invasion now and no impairment of the criminal-justice system, and the mere danger of terrorism does not constitute rebellion or invasion. President Obama is threatening to veto the legislation but not so much for its suspension of habeas corpus. Rather, the bill is objectionable to the president because it would prevent the government from transferring terrorism suspects from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to installations in the United States, even for trial. If the bill becomes law the president and his successors will gain dictatorial power, the power exercised by the worst tyrants in history -- Hitler, Stalin, and Mao -- the power to kidnap anyone off the street or out of his own home and lock him away incommunicado forever. The president will be able to do that even to members of Congress themselves, and while it would suit them right for enacting such an abomination, Americans better rise up and stop it if they don't want the country to slip into totalitarianism as Germany did in similar circumstances in 1933. First the German people were demoralized and deprived of economic security by hyperinflation and depression. Then they were frightened into submission by the burning of the parliament building in Berlin, which was opportunistically depicted by the National Socialist-dominated coalition government as Communist Party terrorism and used as the pretext for a proclamation, issued the next day, suspending all civil liberties, including, specifically, habeas corpus. Three weeks later the Nazis persuaded parliament to surrender its power through the infamous Enabling Act, allowing the Nazi chancellor to rule by decree. He did so for 12 more years. Eventually one of those decrees was the "Night and Fog" decree, under which people across Europe simply disappeared, never to be seen again. Americans may have some vague awareness of the horror perpetrated by Germany back then. But do they have any idea of how closely they are following the Germans in what led to it? Our politicians don't seem to have any idea. Republicans who scream about the supposed oppressiveness of a government that would require everyone to have medical insurance are rushing to give that government the power to make people disappear. And Democrats who chafe at the government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage are ready to forfeit the longest-established and most substantial liberties because a free society can never eliminate the danger that someone can plant a bomb somewhere -- though a totalitarian society can't eliminate it either. No amount of military contracting in Connecticut can be worth even a day without due process of law. The purpose of military contracting is to protect the country, and without due process of law the country will not be worth protecting.
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gulagbound.com/23848/fema...ontractors-and-personnel- to-staff-and-confine/ FEMA Camps: Seeking Contractors and Personnel to Staff and Confine December 12, 2011, 12:27 pm By Arlen Williams 3 Comments Update: Our compatriot journalist and commentator, Sher Zieve was a guest on The Roth Show, with Laurie Roth, to discuss this crisis, archived at 7pm ET, Monday 12/12. She did an excellent job of explaining and putting it all into context: therothshow.com/demo s/recent/hour2Dec1211.mp3 Also, see: “Defense Authorization’s Unconstitutional Aggression upon Citizens; TruNews Radio Notes,” December 6. Caution: this is an exercise in ongoing Citizen research and journalism. Consider yourself inside the News Office. With some reports, verity is assured, with others, further corroboration or refutation must be done. Consider yourself also in the War Room. Suppositions and suspicions must also be considered and plans, preparations, and executions thereof made. The following December 7th report from SHTFplan.com, concerns a federal Request for Information (RFI) seeking contractors to fulfill positions for the maintenance of U.S. populations at FEMA camps (those which Jesse Ventura and others have shown, complete with steel fencing capped with razor wire tilted inward, toward the camps’ intended occupants, ostensibly to keep them inside). Apparently, the RFI response from large scale government contractor, KBR (formerly, Kellog Brown & Root) subsidiary of Halliburton, has become public. We suggest considering the following matters (and I may add more to this entry) as the KBR story is read, shown below them: 1. The roles in this RFI and KBR’s response are complimentary to those core United States Army National Guard, Internment Specialist roles for which our federal government advertised in April of this year. The timing would seem “right” for such KBR roles to be established in support of them. Notice the duty of “Counseling individual prisoners for rehabilitation.” Is that the point of imprisoning authentic terrorists and enemy combatants? Rehabilitation? To what? That would be news. Who decides what the difference is, between rehabilitation and re-education? Just asking now. 2. Obama’s policy of assassination of suspected terrorists, even if American Citizens is apparently being coupled with powers of indefinite detention for the same, by the new Defense Authorization Bill, though an attempt to make it even more expansive has been voted down. See, “Defense Authorization’s Unconstitutional Aggression upon Citizens; TruNews Radio Notes,” December 6, 2011, for more on this. 3. Is it inconceivable, for even a corrupt, neo-Marxist led instrument of controlling globalist elites who have historically supported Communist and Fascist regimes, to intern U.S. Citizens en masse in concentration camps? Keep in mind, the liaisons of one Barack Obama with not only authoritarian and totalitarian regimes abroad, but the apparently close friendship of the likes of American communist terrorist, William Charles (Bill) Ayers. Larry Grathwohl, undercover agent of the FBI who infiltrated Ayers’ Weather Underground of the early 1970′s has testified his people were considering the execution of up to twenty-five million Americans in their revolutionary conjectures, then settled with the idea that a large percentage of them could be placed in concentration camps, for re-education, communist-style, or else…. This article and net-radio interview with Mr. Grathwohl, one of the first I ever did, spell it out. (Disclosure: despite the blog of the time, “Investigating Obama” being assailed with apparent code pointing to a Russian “.ru” site which effectuates the harassment of malware alerts, I know of no one whose computer has been affected and I still frequently visit, clicking through the chaff.) The article and interview: “Jim Simpson on Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn: ‘Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird’ (for now) + Larry Grathwohl Interview,” March 22, 2009. 4. But how could such people psychologically intimidate the highly armed and often patriotic American population, in order to accomplish such a travesty? Discussed more and more frequently are the possibilities of intentionally induced disasters and false flag attacks, allegedly by patriots against which the Department of Homeland Security systematically trains law enforcement personnel as being “suspected terrorists.” For the consideration of that possibility, I was provoked to write this on March 20th of 2009: “Our next ‘Generated Crisis’ — by the Soros/Obama/Pelosi Insurrection?” Also, there is barely any excuse at this point, not to be aware of the likelihood of imminent economic crisis or collapse, intentional in the minds of many, and that would be a crisis too good to waste, for those who wish to take advantage, cause social turmoil, and seize further power. 5. Who in the U.S. Military could ever be counted on, to carry out such orders? Consider the personal testimony of a source I personally know and trust, attached to the top of Terresa Monroe-Hamilton’s article, “Feds and Rumors of Feds…” I’ve seen the survey given to Marines in 29 Palms, CA, about 52 questions long, with last 5 questions asking their opinion to submitting to UN foreign leadership within US and firing upon US citizens who refuse to turn-in their weapons. This was about 20 years ago.
The entire Homeland is now a battlefield...or didn't you get the memo? Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson If this isn't a blunt show of force and exercise of tyranny I don't know what else to call it. America is in its death throes if people don't wake up and start saying no--and not just stop at saying no if it comes to it. As Dolores Ibarruri said, “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.” She is also credited with saying, “It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.”
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein "...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
it's pathetic...
Just imagine--a nation of more than 300 MILLION quelled by a few parasites and leeches in Washington who think they have some God-given right to rule over us as the kings did the serfs in medieval times. Unbelievable!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein "...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams
The whole thing is stunning. Yeah, stunning is one word to describe it. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein "...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
(b) APPLICABILITY TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS AND LAWFUL RESIDENT ALIENS.— (1) UNITED STATES CITIZENS.—The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States. (2) LAWFUL RESIDENT ALIENS.—The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to a lawful resident alien 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.
#2. To: christine, 4 (#0)
The Constitution prohibits suspension of the right of habeas corpus "unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
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#7. To: Eric Stratton (#6)
As long as the cash keeps coming from the feds and the markets keep up their charade.
#8. To: christine (#0)
Lawyer Norm Goldman contended on his radio show that US citizens and Green Card holders are exempt from incarceration without trial, quoting part of Sec. 1032:
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