HOW DID AMERICA BECOME A BATTLEFIELD?

By Jim Kirwan

Jeff Rense

November 11, 2011

WE LET THE CONSTITUTION BE DESTROYED!

Thus reported the Washington Post already in 2002.

 

The war on terror has no doubt had unintended consequences on American freedom. But recent talk has escalated the already prevalent fears of a police state, and the story is indeed compelling.

 

When the best of the liberal leftists and the best of the conspiracy theorists agree, you know it's at least going to be interesting. Today Alex Jones updated his promotion of the ACLU's monitoring of Senate Bill 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. The ACLU reported already last Wednesday,

 

The bill itself specifically says that

"The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States."

This is the very language Amash says is misleading:

"Note that it does not preclude U.S. citizens from being detained indefinitely, without charge or trial, it simply makes such detention discretionary."

After reading the text of the bill, I believe Amash is essentially correct. The two sections of the 680-page bill which have drawn all the attention are 1031 and 1032. Section 1031 gives "authorization" for detention, and 1032 gives the "requirement for military custody." The special exemption for U.S. citizens is under section 1032, and specifically says it refers to "this section."

This means it does not apply to the previous section in which lies an abuse just as egregious-the "authorization" to detain all "covered persons" in "disposition" which includes,

 

Detention under the law of war without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.-Sec. 1031(c) (1)

 

There is no exemption for U.S. citizens in this section.

 

This threat to our liberties-while it could be defended as only pertaining explicitly to 9-11 type terrorists is definitely an expansion of the Federal police and military power into the civilian life of the U.S. It is dangerous, and should be opposed on principle.

 

Further, the bill was crafted secretly without hearing or debate by a liberal Democrat, Carl Levin, along with John McCain, and purports to be simply a Defense spending bill. Deep in its behemoth 680 pages lies this attack on civil liberties.

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham bragged it will

"basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield."

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) seconded,

"America is part of the battlefield."

But if America is declared a battle zone, then the rules of war apply in this land. This means de facto that some form of martial law applies. This means, as WaPo said at the beginning of this article, that there's an alternate system-and perhaps it can apply to any of us. This has been going on already since 2001:" (1)

 

"I am sometimes baffled by how quickly many people quickly assume that because they were not personally named in some piece of legislation, that somehow the provisions of that legislation do not and could not apply to them.

Having spent a great deal of time over the years dissecting changes to code & title and the ever popular "redefinition of terms" used to change the entire common understanding of what a word or phrase means within these tortured constructs called legislation, I know better.

 

My recent article on S.1867 elicited comments to the effect that a few commenters’ had read the bill and that I was simply being inflammatory and emotional. Yes, of course. That must be it.

 

Lest anyone forget:

 

The insidious Patriot Act followed by

The Security Enhancement Act of 2003,

the infamous Military Commissions Act 2006,

followed by the John Warner Defense Authorization Act 2007 and,

which called for the suspension of habeas corpus (4th Amendment due process)

all of which gave the president the power to arbitrarily determine on his own, that any one of us was a "domestic terrorist" and going even further to

allow the president to strip us of our citizenship at his discretion with no oversight.

Each of these unconstitutional bills was a piece of the puzzle being constructed incrementally as the Constitution and our rights were being trashed.

 

These anti-American laws were not the only affront to the Constitution, our rights and the advancement of the police state. Now why, you might be asking, would anyone want to give the president of the United States the arbitrary authority to strip any US citizen of their citizenship with no evidence other than his/her belief that one of us is a terrorist, or supports terrorism, without the evidence supporting that contention, or being officially charged with a crime?

 

Most recently, Obama has approved a new program which allows him to authorize the targeted killing of people in foreign countries that the administration decides is a threat (to them) and includes targeting of US citizens right here at home and abroad.

This program, which is nothing more than sanctified murder, is a violation of international laws which prohibit the killing of individuals outside of armed combat zones.

 

The program will allow the CIA or the military the unchecked authority to murder at will, US citizens and others, around the globe without any evidence of crime, threat or violent activity towards the United States, other than they said so.

 

The intent through all of these assaults on the Constitution and our protected rights has been to find the means to redefine any one of us as a non-military enemy combatant to facilitate the police state. Once redefined, once the definitive description of who and what we are has been altered to suit the government agenda, it is open season on any one of us." (2)

 

These two articles outline just part of the problem that this pending legislation (it won't be voted on for awhile yet); presents for all of us. What is clear is that this SECRET piece of legislation was clearly TREASON. The Congress cannot write legislation that criminalizes free speech or that ends (without debate) their congressional duty to represent the public in this government. We already have a government that has stripped away so many things that it seems impossible to enumerate them all. (3)

But we might want to begin to think about some of what this could mean for the government, and for us: Given that the government now believes that they are living in a State that is suddenly filled with Terrorists, instead of loyal citizens.

There is no precedent for this government to assume the entire nation is potentially criminal, until each of us has proven that we are innocent, each and every time a government thug wants to talk to anyone here: This is unprecedented, and there is absolutely no reason for this behavior.

 

Also we were in business with the US government. That arrangement has gone from paying the government a token percentage of what each of us earns to a whopping 85%^ of everything we make.

And on top of that we must ask government before we are "allowed" to do anything.

At the very least we must STOP paying taxes, because the entity that is charging us those taxes is no longer legal.

We no longer have a Constitution; ergo we no longer have the Republic, in which this compact was created.

This government is a privately held corporation and not a government:

Officially it's called United States Incorporated so there is no reason to pay them taxes, since none of us gave them permission to "privatize" us ~ so in reality they cannot and do not own us!

 

They (USI) went to war illegally and unilaterally; then they sought to find a way to by-pass the legal system so that they could detain people without trials, primarily because they have NO EVIDENCE!

This government created the operation on 911 that gave them hypothetical reasons for war, without proof for any of their allegations. Now they want the effects of their WAR-Crime to spill over onto their critics of these global wars for Colonial power, for resources, and for pure unadulterated-greed.

Since that could not be done by using the existing court system they have set out to create a whole new and illegal system by SECRETLY writing new regulations and making new rulings without bothering about the actual international rules of war; which include torture and indefinite detention.  

On top of all of this they have invented out of a file drawer in CIA headquarters something called Al Qaeda; which has never existed except as a CIA operational group, prior to 911.

Now in concert with Zionist television programming and films, as well as government psy-ops releases they would have the whole world believe that Al Qaeda actually exists:

That is just another lie to keep the public under their collective feather-beds.

But in practical terms what does it mean if we no longer have a functioning congress, legally binding courts, or even the supposed bedrock of the Republic-the Constitution?

That means that we don't have a country anymore.

And since the government is no more ~ why would anyone chose to pay them taxes?

For that matter what does this do to all those corporations which this so-called government has supposedly backed since the founding of the country?

 

On the bright side would be that without a government all corporate charters would be null and void and probably 80 % + of the corporations would be gone over night.

Without a functioning government who then owns all that land that the USG says belongs to them?

The government (USI) is limited to ten-square-miles INSIDE Washington D.C.?

Beyond that ten mile by ten mile square, this "government has no power at all, except whatever people choose to give it?

We have paid for all of it, from police equipment to the roads and bridges to the parks and open range; that all belongs to us, not to them.

The so-called cops are just rented uniforms that no longer come with either badges or names, so they too are corporate-slaves with no power of their own.

If you think that's extreme then just remember that this government only "rules" by the consent of the governed and that hasn't happened since Gee W. Bush stole the Tarnished House on 12-12-2000!

Like it or not the USA has become just another cheap and backward Empire that has an ego the size of the Colossus of Rhodes (The 8th wonder of the World which has of course disappeared into the mists of history).

Moreover what will happen when someone finally tells our troops on the frontlines that "there is no longer a US Constitution!

No more freedoms (of any kind) exist in America and there is no reason to fight to protect a so-called country that doesn't exist"?

Here's what Obama himself has said about this topic!

"My administration has begun to reshape the standards that apply to insure that they are in-line with the rule of law. We must have clear defensible and lawful standards for those who fall into this category.

We must have a thorough process of periodic review so that any prolonged detention is carefully evaluated and justified.

Our goal is justify a legitimate legal framework for the remaining Guantanemo detainees that come out to be transferred.

Our goal is not to avoid a legitimate legal framework. In our constitutional system prolonged detention should not be the decision of any one man.

If and when we determine that the United States must hold individuals, to keep them from carrying out an act of war, we will do so within a system that involves judicial and congressional oversight.

And so going forward my administration will work with congress to develop an appropriate legal regime so that our efforts are consistent with or values and our Constitution.

(The Threat that Obama says makes indefinite -detention necessary)

 

Right now in distant training camps in other cities there are people plotting to take American lives.

That will be the case a year from now, five years from now, and in all probability ten years from now." Watch the entire tape, because it is literal dynamite! (4)

I wonder if we can get them home before BLACK CHRISTMAS, 2011? 

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1) "Battlefield" USA: Senate Bill Turns Military on US Citizens

http://americanvisionnews.com/412/battlefield-usa

 

2) S. 1867 Just another brick in the police state wall

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/5000/

 

3) ENDING the USA

http://www.rense.com/general95/ending.htm

 

4) Rachael Maddow on Obama's Indefinite Detention Ideas 5-21-09 - 7min 42 sec Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J_lcHwkvc&feature=player_embedde