The End of America ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ed Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:52 PM Subject: The End of America Hitler was less adept at taking liberties than the present neocon (national socialist) conspiracy to decimate our Constitutionall quite legally and unconstitutionally. How can fascist encroachments be legal and not Constitutional? When you own the Courts and extort the Congress, you make the rules. http://www.projectcensored org/top-stories/articles/5-seizing-war-protesters-assets/ Due process of law is out the window http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09262008/watch.html Hear some truth-telling from a man who says our country's in deep trouble and needs a renewed commitment to critical thinking, honest words, and hard choices. In this slim volume on THE LIMITS OF POWER, Andrew J. Bacevich goes to the root causes of our discontent and to our broken and foundering politics. That many people agree with this unsentimental diagnosis was apparent when we first aired this interview a few weeks ago, your emails poured in to pbs org. In a matter of hours his book had become a best-seller. This is one of the best approaches to stating the Problem we face that I have ever seen. "9/11, our Constitutional rights have been systematically dismantled: 1. USA Patriot Act - A 342 page document presented to Congress one day before voting on it that allows the government access to your bank and email accounts, as well as your medical and phone records with no court order. They can also search your home anytime without a warrant. 2. USA Patriot Act II - This one allows secret government arrests, the legal authority to seize your American citizenship, and the extraction of your DNA if you are deemed a potential terrorist. 3. Military Commissions Act of 2006 - Ends habeas corpus, the right to an attorney, and the right to court review of one's detention and arrest. Without this most basic right, all other rights are gone too since anyone can be detained indefinitely.. Now anyone may be arrested and incarcerated and nobody would know. 4. NSPD 51 - A directive signed by George W. Bush on May 9, 2007, that allows the President to declare martial law, effectively transforming the U S. into a dictatorship with no checks and balances from the Legislative or Judicial Branches. Parts of this directive are considered classified and members of Congress have been denied the right to review it. 5. Protect America Act of 2007 - Allows unprecedented domestic wiretapping and surveillance activities with a reduction in FISA court oversight. Probable cause is not needed. 6. John Warner Military Authorizations Act of 2007 - Signed by George W. Bush on October 17, 2007, this act allows the President to declare a public emergency and station troops anywhere in America without the consent of the governor or local authorities to "suppress public disorder." This violates the principle of 'posse comitatus, which prohibits federal troops from being used against American citizens within the US. 7. Homegrown Terrorism and Radicalization Act - Passed overwhelmingly by Congress on October 23, 2007, is now awaiting a Senate vote. This act will beget a new crackdown on dissent and the Constitutional rights of American citizens. The definitions of "terrorism" and "extremism" are so vague that they could be used to generalize against any group that is working against the policies of the Administration. In this bill, "violent radicalization" criminalizes thought and ideology while "homegrown terrorism" is defined as the planed use of force to coerce the government." The term, "force" could encompass political activities such as protests, marches, or any other form of non-violent resistance. So when you add in: § Halliburton Confirms Camps Constructed § Halliburton's Immigrant Detention Centers § Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps We are no longer living in the land of the free and the home of the brave. We live in a corporatist-dominated state, with military dictatorship only an emergency away from being implemented by the Executive.
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