Oct. 7, 2008
PAPERS PLEASE, CITIZEN: and other things you may hear this Holiday Season
By Kevin Patrick
There might be a new edition this Holiday Season to your downtown shopping district; and that is armed soldiers on your street corners. During 2007 the Bush Administration made it legal for the military to act as Police inside US borders. This had been illegal since just after the Civil War except in a few specific situations.
This will not be the National Guard, no ladies and gents, this will be the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army. As Naomi Wolf has said in her interviews, these troops answer to the President as Commander in chief and move at his discretion. He could send them to protests, to polling locations, to the halls of Congress, to your house. Mussolini and Hitler did this while they still ruled democracies to frighten legislators and others. Where will these soldiers go in the next 36 months? Your guess is as good as mine, but hopefully more optimistic.
Although their official mission is to quell domestic disturbance , unruly citizens, and other such behavior; it is a quick turn from dissenter to terrorist suspect in this fearful environment. This commentator finds this a deeply disturbing development. Notice the lack of mainstream media coverage; what does that say?
This follows in the wake of the Economic Patriot Act (the Paulson Bailouts). This Bill was railroaded through and many inconstancies occurred. Such as the Senate offering amendments after the Bill was voted down by the House. Representative Sherman from California said that this Bill was pushed through with threats and force. He even went so far as to say that actual Martial Law was threatened if this Bill did not pass. A video of this Congressman saying so can be seen here: link.
“These are the times that try men's souls...” No less true than when they were uttered, these words echo through history to the halls of Congress, and down an empty and boarded-up Main Street.
America faces her greatest challenges ahead. More terrifying than the Cold War is our own soldiers pin ed against us, more deadly than chemical weapons is bread-lines and food shortages, and more disheartening than international terrorism, is closed elections and closed society.
Will we rally to the Banner of Liberty? Hopefully. What will you do? This is the real question; and the answer to it will decid the fate of a nation, an idea, a great experiment in Liberty. What will you do?
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Video Links:
Naomi Wolf : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI
Rep Sherman : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8
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PAPERS PLEASE, CITIZEN: and other things you may hear this Holiday Season
By Kevin Patrick
There might be a new edition this Holiday Season to your downtown shopping district; and that is armed soldiers on your street corners. During 2007 the Bush Administration made it legal for the military to act as Police inside US borders. This had been illegal since just after the Civil War except in a few specific situations.
This will not be the National Guard, no ladies and gents, this will be the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army. As Naomi Wolf has said in her interviews, these troops answer to the President as Commander in chief and move at his discretion. He could send them to protests, to polling locations, to the halls of Congress, to your house. Mussolini and Hitler did this while they still ruled democracies to frighten legislators and others. Where will these soldiers go in the next 36 months? Your guess is as good as mine, but hopefully more optimistic.
Although their official mission is to quell domestic disturbance , unruly citizens, and other such behavior; it is a quick turn from dissenter to terrorist suspect in this fearful environment. This commentator finds this a deeply disturbing development. Notice the lack of mainstream media coverage; what does that say?
This follows in the wake of the Economic Patriot Act (the Paulson Bailouts). This Bill was railroaded through and many inconstancies occurred. Such as the Senate offering amendments after the Bill was voted down by the House. Representative Sherman from California said that this Bill was pushed through with threats and force. He even went so far as to say that actual Martial Law was threatened if this Bill did not pass. A video of this Congressman saying so can be seen here: link.
“These are the times that try men's souls...” No less true than when they were uttered, these words echo through history to the halls of Congress, and down an empty and boarded-up Main Street.
America faces her greatest challenges ahead. More terrifying than the Cold War is our own soldiers pin ed against us, more deadly than chemical weapons is bread-lines and food shortages, and more disheartening than international terrorism, is closed elections and closed society.
Will we rally to the Banner of Liberty? Hopefully. What will you do? This is the real question; and the answer to it will decid the fate of a nation, an idea, a great experiment in Liberty. What will you do?
________________________
Video Links:
Naomi Wolf : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI
Rep Sherman : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8
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