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Title: Anti-U.S. but Pro-American
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Published: Oct 20, 2006
Author: Y CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM
Post Date: 2006-10-20 21:13:11 by tom007
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Anti-U.S. but Pro-American BY CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM 10.20.2006 | POLITICS Well, that tears it. I read the Military Commissions Act of 2006 on my shitty little dial-up connection here in the cabin, and immediately went to the pawn shop in Moab and bought another rifle. Five of them now in the stash, plus a couple pistols. Ready enough to arm seven people altogether. Have you read the Military Commissions Act of 2006? I mean, read it through to its poisonous black heart, its implication for our basic freedoms, its tolling that the system of checks enshrined in the Constitution and entrusted to the three balanced branches is gone? That's extreme language, I know, but it approaches the truth. The Military Commissions Act was offered by legislators in collusion with the Bush White House to legalize CIA and other government tactics of torture against so-called "unlawful enemy combatants." For this reason, the Military Commissions Act is now referred to by its critics as the Torture Act. In violation of the Geneva Convention and our own Anti-Torture Statute passed by Congress in 1994 -- legislation which makes torture a felony punishable by 20 years in prison -- the Torture Act has now "legalized" a mind-shattering array of techniques for gleaning information from the "enemy." Conveniently, it also pardons ex post facto "our brave men and women" (as George W. Bush describes them) who since the dawn of the "war on terror" have been committing crimes against humanity. The acts of torture now made legal and wholesome include the burning of flesh, the breaking of bones, the placing of needles under fingernails, the tearing of limbs, the disfiguring of faces, and the infliction of general bodily injury that may or may not entail -- the fine print of the law isn't clear, making it all the more nefarious, as fine print always is -- the loss of a finger or a toe or a testicle. This is horrific enough. Upon further investigation of the document, however, one discovers that the enemy is not just the faceless Islamic horde but the American people -- unsurprising from a regime, abetted by its legislative branch, that already illegally wiretaps its citizens. According to the Torture Act, any American now can be declared an "unlawful combatant" to be arrested, held indefinitely without hearing or charge or trial, tortured without cease or until such time as hell freezes over. There is no guideline for how the designation of "combatant" is to be made; it simply falls from on high at the whim of the president's office. This is the secret meaning of the document. The right of habeas corpus, a right as old as the germ of democracy? Gone. Never happened. Confronting your accuser? Sorry. Hearing the charges against you? Not applicable. Right to counsel for a public trial? Forget it. The protections against cruel and unusual punishment? Your hands and feet are tied, pal. Our Congress passed this law, violating its own duty to protect the Constitution. It is now federal law that the Bill of Rights no longer applies. Our answer as citizens should be clear. You can be paranoid and go out and buy more guns. In the near term, this is probably a bad idea, though it certainly makes freaks like me sleep better at night, knowing there is a vast armed populace ready to defend against its own government. But are Americans really willing to do so? Time will tell. Violent insurrection against the United States by New Yorkers and Ohioans and Utahns together may be necessary at some future point. . . when the televisions flicker out and the shelves at the Wal-Mart run short. Until then, there are other possibilities. Chief among them, in this vaunted election year, is not voting Democrat. "The problem is that the Democrats are part of the problem," observes political scientist Paul Craig Roberts in his column at http://Antiwar.com. "Democrats, no less than Republicans, have permitted the Bush regime to violate the separation of powers and the rule of law. A branch of government that no longer defends its power is a branch of government that no longer believes in its power. Just as the Reichstag faded away for Hitler, the U.S. Congress has faded away for the Bush administration." Consider the significance of the sheer number of representatives and senators who voted in favor of the Torture Act. In the House, 218 Republicans, 32 Democrats. In the Senate, a vote of 65 to 34, the yeas including Joe Lieberman, Chuck Hagel, Charles Grassley, and torture victim John McCain. The fact is that every congressperson who voted for the Torture Act must take immediate action to repeal the law and then resign forever from public service. The ancient Greeks suggest further remedies: banishment beyond the walls of the polis, to forever wander among the barbarians. Our legislators in their exile can be assured that countries such as Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and North Korea will welcome them, always looking for spokesmen to defend brutality in the name of security. Failing this, we have the hope of the U.S. Supreme Court, which has shown its colors in the Hamdan decision striking down the Bush Administration's military tribunals. If both our federal gatekeepers fail us, state legislators should begin the process of nullification of the Torture Act, regarding it as a violation of the covenant between the separate states and the federal center and refusing to enforce it or abide it. How would this play out on the ground? Let's say the federal government comes to your state looking for those who have been deemed, in a process as random as lightning touching down, "unlawful enemy combatants" -- perhaps someone like yourself who reads too much. The state government to whom you look for protection (we hope) rebukes the federal government's effort and refuses to hand you over. Thus is a constitutional crisis provoked (as if the Constitution isn't already in crisis). And from there things spin out of control. We might actually witness the use of federal troops to enter into state territory to apprehend the "enemies" among us. Would state militia in the form of the National Guard be called forth to defend against the encroachment? Would militiamen come forth from the homes of Americans? Would there be balls enough among the citizens collectively for us to even reach this far in the tragedy? Let's hope so, and hope it never comes to pass; let's hope the democracy will survive the long beating of the last seven years to emerge from its shocked shell and re-engage. But given Murphy's Law, we should be prepared otherwise. For my part, understanding that the federal government, regardless of the party in power, actively connives against my interests as a free man, that my elected leaders in Congress no longer believe in the American experiment (while spending my tax dollars in furtherance of its failure, galling thought), I am increasingly inclined to renounce the United States. I renounce it in favor of Brooklyn, New York, and Moab, Utah, in favor of the local over the global, of the polis over the imperium. Being anti-United States, I am most certainly pro-American. This, under the constantly distending definitions provided by our Congress, might just make me an "enemy" worthy of having my skin pocked black and my arms broken. Hence the new Lee-Enfield bolt action, bought at Yama & Sons' pawnshop in Moab, whose proprietors provided 12 free rounds of .303 ammunition, which among army-surp suppliers costs about 0.2 cents a round, i.e. goddamn cheap, ideal for readying an insurrection. A rifle invented in 1895, muzzle velocity 2,440 feet per second, maximum range 2,000 yards, deadly reliable, morbidly accurate, perfected throughout the first half of the 20th century for maintaining the falling British Empire; now for possible use to end the American one. About the Author
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#1. To: All, indrid cold, lodwick, dakmar, tommythemadartist, robin, diana, swarthy guy, red jones (#0)
Sounds like my next rifle. Surely he means not 0.2 cents/round but $0.2/round. Still quite inexpensive for impressive performance.
Looks like Republicans are easier to bribe and blackmail.
I think the reason why all this stuff is being put in place, might be in preparation for the amalgamation and dissolution of the United States, and the merging with our nation with that of Canada and Mexico. It is the only way to ensure there will be enough tax payers to cover the asses of the Pro-Commie Baby Boomer generation. Now before some of you older jackasses get your panties in a twist because I mention the word Baby Boomer, realize this. My generation, Generation X, is fighting in Iraq because of YOUR generation's inability to change anything. Your generation is the ME generation. The Greed Generation. The generation who will literally bleed the country white of resources when it comes to medicare, medicaid, and of course, the ever popular third rail social security. My generation pays taxes, taxes that will go up exponentially when you folks retire. Why do you think we're letting all the illegals into this country to work? Because when they work, and when they use false documentation, that money is money that the government gets to keep! It's FREE MONEY That no return has to be paid on. Not to mention the fact that the illegals outbirth American Citizens 3 to one. A new generation of subservient, uneducated taxpayers to shoulder the load that My generation simply can't carry. Why can't we carry it? Boomers are retiring later in life than ever before. They're also in control of things, which means that they're the ones sending business overseas. They're the ones in the government selling the country down the river. They're also the ones who continue to vote for the two party fraud. My generation gets to pick up the pieces of this country, and frankly I'm not sure what can be achieved by fighting for a country that will just replace our leaders with yet another group of assclowns who willingly celebrate the destruction of this country while they laugh all the way to the bank. The idea of fighting a revolution for the leadership of this country is abominable to me, because the people who forment a revolution, will be the exact same people we have in power right now. They will be nothing more than the replacement rulers, and will not come from the common and decent people of these United States. Not even thinking that you could get anyone to fight for their freedom in the first place. The sheep are complacent, and will cower in a fucking heartbeat the second they see their neighbors hauled away. You can't get people to pull over and help you on the side of the road these days. What makes you think anyone will take a stand when they see their neighbors hauled away in the night? This article to me is pretty hilarious all things considered.
Hence the new Lee-Enfield bolt action, bought at Yama & Sons' pawnshop in Moab, whose proprietors provided 12 free rounds of .303 ammunition, which among army-surp suppliers costs about 0.2 cents a round, i.e. goddamn cheap, ideal for readying an insurrection. A rifle invented in 1895, muzzle velocity 2,440 feet per second, maximum range 2,000 yards, deadly reliable, morbidly accurate, perfected throughout the first half of the 20th century for maintaining the falling British Empire; now for possible use to end the American one.
#2. To: tom007 (#1)
Consider the significance of the sheer number of representatives and senators who voted in favor of the Torture Act. In the House, 218 Republicans, 32 Democrats. In the Senate, a vote of 65 to 34, the yeas including Joe Lieberman, Chuck Hagel, Charles Grassley, and torture victim John McCain.
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#4. To: tom007 (#1)
Anyone not out snapping up arsonal refinished Russian Mosin-Nagant M44 Carbine Rifles at $69 in the box is nuts. $69 for the rifle and 440 round ammo cans for $40 at most major pawn shops. Still a Lee-Enfield is nice and cheap too plus it was the symbol of resistance during the Soviet-Afghan war. Jihad Joe with his "smelly SMLE" was killing Ivans at 600+ meters while Ivan's AK could only reach half that far. I can see why the author, living in the flat part of Utah, picked on up. A Lee-Enfield will out distance an AK-47 or M-16. Ironic, but when I picked up my M44 the clerk told me that former communist block low cost pocket pistols were selling like hot cakes and he was having trouble keeping them in stock. CCW permit or no, me thinks that many Americans who now find themselves as nothing but potential "terrorists" in FEDGOV's eyes are getting ready for the days when "enemies of the state" are randomly pulled off the street.
Sounds like my next rifle. Surely he means not 0.2 cents/round but $0.2/round.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
That would lead us to the question of exactly what it is we would want out of a revolution. Me? I don't want to "rule the country" and no one else should either. Like the former USSR the cultures and values of the population are too diverse to be controled by some aging idiots in suits sitting in fancy offices behinds tanks, armed guards, and barbed wire. A best case senario would be the states and their populations telling the Feds to go to hell and have a huge "crystal night" against every federal office building and employee in the state. Turn every military base over to the national guard, evict every FBI, IRS, and other alphabet agency nitwit to the state line and boot them across, and turn over all Federal "public" lands to state park services. In short, chop the FEDs off at the knees. They are the problem. The state of Colorado didn't invade Iraq. Utah doesn't demand 20% to 50% of my income. Florida doesn't set the immigration and tariff laws. If there is a revolution, it shouldn't be done because we want to change washington, it should be done because we want to remove D.C. from the political equation.
My generation gets to pick up the pieces of this country, and frankly I'm not sure what can be achieved by fighting for a country that will just replace our leaders with yet another group of assclowns who willingly celebrate the destruction of this country while they laugh all the way to the bank.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
#6. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#4)
damn right. I let my CHP expire out of priciple and carry anyway. When they come for me, I'll be taking a lot of them with me.
CCW permit or no, me thinks that many Americans who now find themselves as nothing but potential "terrorists" in FEDGOV's eyes are getting ready for the days when "enemies of the state" are randomly pulled off the street
**LEAP**
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and choking life.
-- Osama bin Laden
"A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William K Clifford
#7. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
I won't get my panties in a twist, cause I don't wear underwear, unless it's long. However, personal attire preferences aside, Tommy, I have LONG felt you comments on this situation to be worthy of discussion because it's consequences are huge. And no politician wants to address it because there is no easy way out. The US is going have a larger % of it population being elderly than any nation I am aware of soon. This is why Mexico's Fox says "in then years America will be begging for youthful immigrants" - to work in hospices, grave digging, colostomy bag flushers, and lawn maintenence etc. While our teenagers drop their belt lines as to emulate homo whores in prison. And don't know how to sweat and mow a lawn. And fourteen yo girls go to the mall looking like they are ready to service the seventh fleet. As to our inability to change anything, well, with what I am certain is a shadow government calling the important shots, including the four or five that blew Kennedy's brain away, all patriots are having some problems getting traction with that. As long as 70% of the folks think Saddam was behind 9-11 and look at the grocery store check out mags... I'm as intrested as anyone else about a boob job on a hottie, but the diversion of the middle mind of America is polished and accomplished, and the lower mind may as well not exist, except to provide fodder for the pentagon. I think you are right to be pissed at the older class. God knows I am. I'm pissed at the younger class as well. Heck I am kinda pissed at everyone, really. So be mad, you are justified. I am mad too. And the future dosn't look too darn aweful good to me. And the crime is IT DIDN"T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. Bushco thought they could colonize Iraq for themselves,(this is really the reason, they were going to economically enslave Iraq with millions of laws and regulations) and let the public pay for the costs of colonization, they would keep the banking, insurance, oil and gas, etc franchises for themselves. Now that it's blowen up in their faces, guess what Tommy??? We are going to be blamed for it all. And the debt and the degredation of our nation will take forever to repair. Nearly all wars seem to me to be family fueds of the elites. The poor bastard who actually suffer for the things usually get nothing for it but a flag. Or a bullet.
Now before some of you older jackasses get your panties in a twist because I mention the word Baby Boomer, realize this. My generation, Generation X, is fighting in Iraq because of YOUR generation's inability to change anything. Your generation is the ME generation. The Greed Generation. The generation who will literally bleed the country white of resources when it comes to medicare, medicaid, and of course, the ever popular third rail social security.
#8. To: tom007 (#7)
I find it ironic that the baby boomers are doing to Gen-X what the "greatest generation" did to the baby boomers. "What do you mean you don't trust the government, pay your taxes, and march off to war when ordered to do so? Why you snot nosed spoiled little punk!" Replace "hippy" with "Goth" and history once again makes like a broken record.
I think you are right to be pissed at the older class. God knows I am. I'm pissed at the younger class as well.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
#9. To: Pissed Off Janitor, zipporah (#8) (Edited)
History repeats not exactly but rhymes. It is fascenating to study the ancients asking exactly this momentous question. They were very well aware of it, and likely had many less superfulous distractions to keep them from seeing these essential, timeless, truths. They, typically felt, that as men changed little to nothing over the vast course of history, that the actions of men would likewise change little to the limited set of problems that the world of men and nature continually challanges men. Therefore, many felt, the responses of men were to be very much the same, some being wise to these challanges and allurements, the many following the easier course of action, leading themselves and their followers into hardships that could have been avoided, or even disaster. It is like a somewhat simple play that morphs into different versions, and time and time again, the actors in it cannot recognize their small part of the play from the grand. And they pay for their vanity and hubris, painfully in the end act of the master play. Ask me how I know this. ;)
Replace "hippy" with "Goth" and history once again makes like a broken record.
#10. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#4)
CAn you direct me where? Cheaper than dirt?? Thanks in Advance.
nyone not out snapping up arsonal refinished Russian Mosin-Nagant M44 Carbine Rifles at $69 in the box is nuts. $69 for the rifle and 440 round ammo cans for $40 at most major pawn shops.
#11. To: tom007 (#10)
Century International Arms seems to be the big kid on the block as far as non-US military surplus is concerned. Any gun store or pawn shop worth their salt can hook you up with a Mosin or Lee-Enfield cheap. http://www.centuryarms.com/shop/ Look under C&R (Curieo and Relic) in the rifle section. I received one of their ads when I bought some ammo at the pawn shop where I bought the M44. M44s run anywhere from $69 to $120. They'll look like hell on the outside but shoot pretty well if the bore and rifing are in good condition. As for ammo, cheaper than dirt does carry the 440 round "spam cans" of ammo plus some nice Finnish made stripper clips for the Mosin-Nagant series of rifles. http://www.aimsurplus.com/ - Another good source of ammo and rifles. There still are some deals out there on firearms, but it's only a matter of time till legislation and demand dries up the last of the surplus. Worse still, is that Russia and China are diverting more and more ammo to Iraq and Afghanistan for use by the US supported national armies who still use Soviet era weapons. 7.62X39 and 7.62X54R is getting harder and harder to find. The only reason the spam cans are still out there is because the ammo is corrosive.
CAn you direct me where? Cheaper than dirt?? Thanks in Advance.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
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