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[liberty]

Military Commissions Act: A Precursor To Tyranny?
By Chuck Baldwin
December 5, 2006


This column is archived at
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In an interview with nationally syndicated radio talk show host Alex
Jones, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas recently discussed President Bush's support for the Military Commissions Act. During the interview, Paul said that "the law officially allows for citizen concentration camp facilities."

Paul also warned that "the Military Commissions Act and the Defense
Authorization Act . . . essentially wipes out Habeas Corpus."

Paul continued by noting, "Right now we don't have concentration camps,
but . . . the authority has been given so that concentration camps can come without Habeas Corpus." He then said, "If they can lock you up, what good is freedom of speech or what good is a gun?"

Couple the implementation of the Military Commissions Act with the
already-passed USA Patriot Act and all the legalities necessary to
completely eviscerate America's constitutionally-protected liberties
are in place. Think of it. Without firing a shot or dropping a bomb, President George W. Bush has done more to strip the American people of their liberties than all the world's despots and dictators combined!

Consider further the recent statements of former house speaker Newt
Gingrich. According to the (Manchester, NH) Union Leader, "Former
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday [Monday, Nov. 27] in Manchester said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.

"Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a 'different
set of rules' may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet
and free speech to recruit and get out their message."

Of course, Mr. Gingrich did not say how he plans to reduce people's
free speech rights. Neither did he say a word about the fact that our
greatest potential for terrorism is coming in the form of an invasion of illegal aliens across our southern border, and that it has been the words and policies of one George W. Bush that have mostly contributed to this
threat.

Will someone please tell me how expunging the free speech of the
American people is going to make the United States safer? And, pray tell, why are our brave troops fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, ostensibly to "promote democracy," if the same political leaders who sent them to the Middle East are working to shrink democracy here at home?

Ladies and gentlemen, please wake up! Under the leadership of President
George W. Bush, rights and freedoms that have been lost to you include
your right to an attorney, your right to know the charges being levied
against you, the right to a speedy trial, the right to trial by a jury of your
peers, the right to not be subjected to torture, the right to not have
your home and personal items searched and seized without warrant, the right to not have your personal conversations (including letters and email)
intercepted without court order, and the right to not incriminate
yourself, just to name a few. And now we learn that our government has authorized and is planning to build "concentration camp facilities."

Furthermore, just because you or I have not yet been personally
subjected to this tyranny, does not mean that we won't be! The seeds are already planted; the die is already cast. The time to act is not when you are being carted off to an "undisclosed location." By then, it is too late.

Thank God for Congressman Ron Paul. If it weren't for him, there would
be practically no one on Capitol Hill willing to sound the alarm for the
American people. I wish someone could convince him to run for President
of the United States on the Constitution Party ticket. The GOP would never
support his candidacy for president, but the CP would welcome him with
open arms. And, given the American people's frustration with both major
parties, a serious third party challenge is very possible in 2008.

In the meantime, the power establishment in Washington, D.C., continues
to undermine our Constitution and fritter away our freedoms.

(c) Chuck Baldwin

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[liberty]

Here is a possible sequence when these laws could be executed:

US dollar collapse

Attempt to implement the "Amero"

Public out cry, demonstrations, riots.

Dissenters imprisoned without an attorney for undermined time.

Liberty DH

[ShineOn]

Scary. What makes it scary not is not that these are being built, but that a whole lot of Americans are going to go along with it.

So many things could disrupt the status quo and bring on civil disturbances. And then to "keep law and order" the police and military (and some "volunteers") will feel it is their duty to do whatever they feel is necessary to control the disturbance.

[John Adams]

Here is a possible sequence when these laws could be executed:

US dollar collapse

Attempt to implement the "Amero"

Public out cry, demonstrations, riots.

Dissenters imprisoned without an attorney for undermined time.

Liberty DH

So simple and straight forward that it's probably right on the money.

[SwissMrs&Pitchfire]

With the depression that we are headed for, I wonder just how many will really fight the UN bailout. I doubt it will be more than isolated pockets until we are led away into captivity (which is too late).

[ShineOn]

How many will sell their soul to be rescued from financial ruin?

[SwissMrs&Pitchfire]

I dont know, how high can you count?

[liberty]

Will these laws ever be turned on us citizens. Well check this out. Here are a few quote from the editorial on page 80.

US News and World Report
December 18, 2006

"The next terrorist attack will come not from abroad but from homgrown radicals within our borders. That's the threat we must take measures to prevent."

"We need a third eye because we are now less likely to be attacked by interniational terrorists than by homegrown American citizens..."

This article is nothing but a bunch of conjecture to promote imprisonment of us citizens who objective to the combines actions.

Libby DH

[ShineOn]

Yea that's a real concern. If the next terrorist attack is pinned on some guys that look like good upstanding Americans, then everything the government has set up to deal with "terrorists" can be turned towards the citizens.

Why are people so blind? It's sad. We Americans will hang ourselves on the gallows we built.