I Hereby Declare Myself an Enemy Combatant
by Bill Losapio
October 19, 2006
''(1) UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT.-(A) The term 'unlawful enemy combatant'
means- "a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and
materially supported hostilities against the United States or its
co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is
part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces); or ''(ii) a person who,
before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act
of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant
Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the
authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense."
~HR6166, The Definition of Enemy Combatant, ushering in the utter
destruction of Habeas Corpus in its mirrored form SB3930 (actually signed into
law)
I hereby declare myself an Unlawful Enemy Combatant. No, I am not, nor
have I ever been part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces, but I
will save a Combat Status Review Tribunal or any other [in]competent tribunal
established by Dubya or Rummy the trouble.
Yes, I know this means I can be tortured under whatever distorted
definition of "information gathering" these war criminals utilize to make me
admit that I am a terrorist. Maybe by admitting it now, I can save them the
trouble of doing that too, but they may do it anyway just for practice. You
know, keep the torture machine nicely greased and all that. Don't want it to
get messy, mind you.
And yes, I know this means I'll end up in Gitmo or in one of those nifty
new Kellogg Brown and Root Detention Centers . But I would suffer the fate of
demons should I make a whore of my soul, to paraphrase another Unlawful Enemy
Combatant. Why do I consider myself even remotely capable of being labeled
this way?
Posted on www.whitehouse.gov, the National Security Council's "Strategy
for Winning the War on Terror" states the following:
"Subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more
effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated
by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive
grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and
self-serving propaganda."
On Monday, October 16, 2006 , Fatherland Security Chief Chertoff stated
that an "area of concern" is the threat of "plots involving local communities,
American citizens, who may become radicalized over the Internet . . . ."
It is clear: the next front of control is the blogosphere and the
alternative news media. By contributing towards the "subculture" exposing the
fascist nightmare oozing out of D.C., I must be necessarily "keeping alive
grievances" that make our population a ripe recruiting ground for bad people.
Any parent can quickly imagine how horrible it would feel being forcibly
separated from one's children. Any parent would sacrifice lofty ideals to see
their children and loved ones protected from the ugliness of the world, and
from suffering. We are willing to tolerate so much just to have the chance to
watch our children grow up happy. Never did I think that I would find myself
dragged to the horrible grey area between keeping my mouth shut in the hopes
that nothing bad would happen, or risk persecution (no exaggeration) for
speaking out against these travesties of freedom in the fear that the future
for my children fades to bleakness. Economic margin theory now comes into
play. We must now make the determination within our own value systems as
individuals: Is the future in which our children must live too horrible to
contemplate for those who value liberty? Are the ever-increasing chances of
this nightmare becoming real high enough now that we can no longer sit on the
sidelines hoping it will fix itself?
Keep our mouths shut and hope for the best, or speak out in defiance
against this nightmarish Orwellian veil descending on our lives -- though that
exposes us to renegade kangaroo proceedings with the real chance of being held
indefinitely with no charges filed, and no ability to even see the evidence
against us. I'm afraid for many of us who see the writing on the wall, this
quandary looms quite closely overhead.
Come and get me, you sons of bitches! I will not suffer this farcical
disgrace. I will not silence myself in the hope that maybe this evil machine
of injustice, oppression, and horror overlooks me, though I, of all that is
good and decent, expose my family to God knows what. By writing this article,
I may very well have doomed myself to a first class ticket to the KBR Camp o'
Horrors.
Has it come to this? Am I hallucinating? Is this really what is going
on in this country? I sit typing this, pausing, looking around, thinking "I'm
sure I'm not just reflecting on a really bad nightmare I might have had last
night . . . ."
Have you not seen the legislation, now law? Are you so foolish as to
think that "it will only be used against bad people . . . terrorists . . . .
It's just to keep us safe"?
To those who believe this childishness, to those frightened sheep who do
not wish to rock the boat, or who either misguidedly or in brown-shirt fashion
support this travesty against humanity, I say, "Beware the father who fears for
his children's future." I offer you, in closing, the following quote from
Samuel Adams:
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What
should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the
knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the
avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our
blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go
from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen!"
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Bill Losapio is an austro-libertarian living in Melbourne , FL. You can
email Bill, at least if he hasn't been dragged to a KBR Camp, at [EMAIL
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