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I had previously reported that US citizens are being tortured by our own government when the executive branch says the magic word: "terrorist." Under the 2006 Military Commissions Act (MCA), such Americans can be detained forever without legal right of habeas corpus. If those Americans are brought to trial rather than detained and tortured at the whim of the tyrants, the US government has created an unconstitutional system of judgment and execution: the President/dictator slurring the American as “terrorist” also says who the judges are to determine guilt with available penalty of execution. These three military tribunal judges are allowed to accept “secret evidence” from the government that is unavailable for the defendant to view or challenge if two other words are said: “national security.”
We know MCA was intended for American citizens because the US government has applied it to American citizens and argued for its use rather than the US Constitution's provisions through the first two levels of federal court. The current legal standing through federal court decision is that MCA is applicable to US citizens upon the dictate of the executive branch.
What does this mean? It means you could be detained tomorrow without charges because the government claims evidence of your terrorism. It means you can be tortured. It means that if the government ever wants to bring you to trial, they can say they have video of you executing American soldiers that they can submit as evidence in the form of a written description of what’s on the video. You cannot challenge the evidence; the judges are free to accept it as valid. Literally, when the same executive head who accused you has also picked your judges, this is a dictionary definition of dictatorship. The US is under the dictate of the executive branch based solely from what is said from the Fuhrer (German for “leader”).
This is exactly what the Founding Fathers warned us would happen without citizen vigilance. This is fascism, not a constitutional republic. The US is an Orwellian shadow of its Constitution.
But this analysis is incomplete under the news that the Obama Administration is taking alleged “permission” from President Bush to continue extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens. Best-selling author Glenn Greenwald reports the story in professional elegance of one US target for assassination: Anwar al-Awlaki, an American whose parents emigrated from Yemen. Chris Floyd also adds his perspective to this confirmed US policy.
Anwar’s father has pleaded with the US government tyrants to allow him contact with his son to negotiate his surrender and then follow the US Constitution for the public disclosure of any evidence of his son’s criminal acts. His father says such evidence does not exist. The US government has responded with further attacks to murder Anwar in complete contempt of the Constitution all men and women in our military and government have sworn an oath to support and defend.
When US forces are breaking into school children’s homes, handcuffing them, and then executing them, I invite your consideration that Anwar is a likely “patsy” to further encroach on our rights by taking an American with a Muslim-sounding name and setting precedent for the execution of Americans upon the dictate of our Fuhrer.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.– Pastor Martin Niemöller
The above famous quote first appeared published in a 1955 book by Milton Mayer, appropriately titled about the German people under their form of fascism, They Thought They Were Free.
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Local perspective: Part of my professional duties as a teacher of economics and government is to produce competent adult citizenry. This includes realization that our nation’s policies and money are managed at a broad community level, and these issues have tremendous local impact. Of course, we all want human beings to be individually successful and enjoy their unique, beautiful and powerful self-expressions. Concurrently, we recognize our commitment to local success is strongly dependent upon the success of the community, and that government policy and economics are drivers.
Our status in early 21st Century human history is that we suffer from a long history in government and money of human interrelationship well-described as vicious antagonism. Governments frequently use war as a foreign policy, despite its illegality and dependent upon public ignorance, with horrific consequences. Economic policy is still created within a “Robber Baron” paradigm to concentrate money to an elite few families. Two examples:
- National taxes effect you dearly, especially the tax to pay interest on the national debt. This costs the American public over $400 billion every year. This is $4,000 per year for every $50,000 of income. Do the math to understand your household’s tax burden for a monetary policy invented by banks for banks to create our money supply as debt. Your competence in this area contributes to our collective voice to simply shift monetary policy to easily pay the national debt, enjoy full employment, collectively save us over a trillion dollars every year, and finally realize what our brightest American minds have been advocating for centuries beginning with Benjamin Franklin. This would have unprecedented local benefits, and requires collective power to accomplish.
- Ending poverty everywhere on our planet would cost just 0.7% of our income and save a million children’s lives every month. This human accomplishment will cause unimaginable joy at our local level.
To consider:
"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in the world. Now the judgment of God is upon us and we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."
--Inscription on Dr. Martin Luther King’s statue, Moorehouse College, Atlanta
"The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth, there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution." -- poet Federico García Lorca
I appreciate your attention to these facts and encourage your further study and action consistent with your own self-expression. My recommendations:
Policy response: Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
- Understand the laws of war. These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. The current US wars are Orwellian opposite to being lawful, with growing professional legal opinions affirming this obvious "emperor has no clothes" fact. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution, not “always place the mission first.” To fulfill their oath they must immediately refuse and end all orders associated with unlawful wars and military-related constant violation of treaties.
- End the transfer of trillions of American taxpayer money to banksters and admitted as “lost” by our military. End poverty through global cooperation to achieve the UN Millennium Goals by developed countries investing 0.7% of their income. Support global security through cooperation, dignity, justice, and freedom. Create a US Department of Peace to help.
- Communicate. Trust your unique, beautiful, and powerful self-expression to share as you feel appropriate. Understand that while many people are ready to embrace difficult facts, many are not. Anticipate that you will be attacked and prepare your virtuous response in the spirit of competition, just as you do in other fields.
- Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R are subject to prosecution.
Comments policy: I welcome questions and comments that are civil and pertain to the article topic. Impolite and impertinent comments will be deleted.
Please consider that I’m among hundreds of writers who have documented our own government’s disclosure of propaganda programs to support their wars. I suspect my articles are under such propagandistic attack from comments that use typical rhetorical fallacies to distract readers from the facts. I invite readers to sharpen their ability to discern such propaganda. They are characterized by a combination of: never addressing the facts, diverting attention through unsubstantiated belief in an alleged expert, irrelevant data, straw-man attack that distorts the facts, ad hominem attack of insults to the messenger, vile comments to repulse readers, and lies of omission and commission.
I will use such comments to point-out the propaganda or delete them at my discretion. Again, all relevant and polite questions, and factually accurate comments are welcome. As a professional educator I’m in agreement with my experience and research: we learn best from multiple perspectives in mutual commitment to understand the facts, see those facts from diverse points-of-view, and consider various policy proposals of what we should do.
For those involved in support of US government-sponsored disinformation, I invite you to consider the quality of human relationships you wish to work toward. National security and a brighter future is not a function of fear, manipulation, and control. Our best security follows cooperation, justice under the law, dignity, and freedom. Working for your best imagined self-expression of virtue may include a unique contribution from the inside of your agency. Public attraction to the stories of Star Wars and the Harry Potter books/movies recognize that our society’s jump to civilized relations for all of us might require support from people within the “dark side” acting as covert agents for building a brighter future. Another option is becoming a whistle-blower; Project Camelot is a popular venue for people in sensitive positions. Ultimately, I recommend a Truth and Reconciliation process to exchange full truth for no prosecution, explained in detail at the link. Please consider the wisdom of your own “Scrooge conversion” to act for the benefit of all humanity rather than your self-proclaimed controlling, manipulating, and loveless “masters.”
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
Comments
We no longer have a government for and by the people, it is rogue and out of control. The federal government is no longer recognized as a legal entity. So far we have fallen.
The federal gov't in its present state is an illegal entity. It has encroached way beyond the legal confines of the US Constitution.
Note a key Statutory Term that has been used in the above article - That term is 'US citizen'; a term which didn't exist until after the American Civil War and came about in order to give citizenship status to a group of people that formerly were not considered citizens - ergo, 14th Amendment citizens - which no white person owes their status to (There are court cases that actually state that quite explicitly).
Once again, an example of how devious individuals use statutory terms to entrap the unaware. As far as I'm concerned, they can all go _ _ _ _ themselves.
Remember,these miscreants aquire their authority by way of a brainwashed people that do not understand the truth about what real liberty is - if they did understand, these parasites would be running for the hills trying to dodge the lead heading their way!
Are you talking about Al Qaeda cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, the spiritual advisor to the terrorists involved in September 11 attacks? That's whom you're defending?
Why would you promote and support a known terrorist? Shame on you!
Anwar al-Awlaki is a Muslim lecturer, spiritual leader, and former imam believed to be a senior talent recruiter and motivator "for al-Qaeda and all of its franchises." In 2009, he reportedly was promoted to the rank of regional commander within al-Qaeda. Al-Awlaki's sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers. They were also attended by the accused Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan. Al-Awlaki praised Hasan's actions after the Fort Hood shooting.
You idiots, 9/11 was not done by devout muslims who frequented strip bars...totally against their religeon...duh! try doing some research instead of parroting what you hear from those who have the most to gain by you hating muslims...it is already documented of it being an inside job between the bankers, the us government and israel. Do the math retards.
And someones terrorist is omeone elses freedom fighter...get out of their countries if you dont like retaliation, Im a patriot, but I call it like I see it, you are another usefull idiot who parrots the official story...I bet you still believe the gulf of tonkin incident was real...even after it has been declassified as a lie!!!
Ok, “John Q” and “Linda V”:
If the government wants to arrest someone based upon their evidence the accused committed a crime, we have a US Constitution that explains the procedure and burden of proof. You, in contrast, argue for un-American extrajudicial power for government death squads. Better be proud of that choice; what goes around comes around.
John Q, you’d better research 9/11: the official story is based on torture-induced testimony from authors with massive conflicts in interest.
Linda, “known terrorist” is a dictate of the American leader. I’ll take the US Constitution over your accusation I should be ashamed of my nation. Being American is a political distinction; one I defend and you abandon. “Believed to be” and “reportedly” is how you target Americans for assassination rather than a grand jury, rights of the accused, and trial by jury. Any more un-American values you wish to stand for, like torture, rendition, Wars of Aggression, slavery, debt-slavery to banks?
Carl, i read your eloquent posts searching not only for knowledge and insight (both of which you provide)but also for answers. But I end up with even more questions in the process. Is the direction this government is taking (and the ones since Reagan) part of a global coalition? Is our president unwilling OR unable to break the chains from the shadow government (presuming there is one) and do what his electoral base wants him to do (end the wars, no corp. socialism, healthcare for all, etc )or is it impossible for him to operate autonomously at this point? Does protesting even work anymore as it did when I was a lttle kid during the Vietnam era? The corp-owned media covers none of the protests I read about (not even the ones here in London). Thanks for all you do to educate and elucidate.
Teri:
Thank you. I can’t answer your questions; I have no access to those facts. In observation, as you, I assume there are competing coalitions. Whether Obama was pre-selected or not is unknown. I’ll have an excellent essay from John Hankey exploring that question as soon as his podcast interview with Jim Fetzer posts for me to include the link.
Protests won’t be covered in the media and public opinion is ignored as long as the oligarchy can still enact their policies. I don’t know what to do other than act for the recommendations I’m always including in these articles, having faith that life is working out fairly, and moving forward in that good faith as best I envision.
You’re welcome, Teri. I appreciate all acts of virtue for this planet to become civilized and humanity unleashed.
To think that all those people standing together to form the "peace" symbol probably had good intentions. The "peace" symbol is actually an occult symbol and the statue of liberty represents godlessness.
Excellent work Carl. Don't forget the tie-in with the McCain-Lieberman bill, which would expand this power event further, the government would no longer even have to maintain the detained citizen is a "terrorist" -- just that the citizen opposes government policy. -- Dave Mundy, Texas Nationalist Examiner
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