We have been radicalized by the failure of our elected representatives in Congress to obey their oath of office, to defend the Constitution from its domestic enemies.The greatest domestic enemy of the Constitution has become a ubiquitous, though mostly unseen, presence throughout the United States of America. That enemy is Homeland Security. They say it protects us. They say it keeps us safe from terror. Ironically, it has become terror itself, watching us, listening to us, searching us for suspicious behavior. For freedom, we now bring you urgent scribbles for radicals, undermining the security state.
I propose that the people over at Webster’s Dictionary replace their long, wordy definition of the word politician and, in its place, just put a picture of Daniel Ortega. When Daniel Ortega could get power by appealing to the Soviet Union to support his government in Nicaragua, he was a Communist. Now that the Soviets are gone, Daniel Ortega has become a right-wing anti-abortion Catholic.
You say Soviet Union, I say Catholic Church. Plus ca change, plus ca meme.
What’s next? Will Daniel Ortega try to keep his power as President of Nicaragua by condemning Hollywood liberals?
I hereby propose the creation of a new international political movement: Former Communist dictators for Christ!
There are a few rumblings in the United States Senate, but so far, it appears that the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has no plan to revoke the infamous Military Commissions Act. The Military Commissions Act:
Ends enforcement of the Geneva Conventions
Legalizes torture
Gives war criminals legal amnesty
Sets up kangaroo courts with absurd standards of justice
Provides the President of the United States the power to imprison people without any criminal charge or proof of wrongdoing
Repeals the right of habeas corpus
Why do the Democrats in the House of Representatives have no plan to revoke this terrible law? They think it would be politically unpopular. Imagine that: Fair trials are now politically unpopular in the USA. Protection from cruel and unusual punishment is now unpopular in the USA. Limitation of Presidential power is now unpopular in the USA.
And the Democrats? The Democrats in the House of Representatives seem okay with that. Above all else, the House Democrats want to be popular and in power. Doing what’s right for America is way down on their list of priorities.
“Future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently named three priorities for investigation, including private contracting in Iraq, the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the administration’s formulation of energy policy. It’s hard to understand why Democrats would insist on examining Vice President Cheney’s first-term energy task force but would not seek to determine — at last — how senior military commanders and defense officials may have contributed to the prisoner abuse scandal at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. No one but low-ranking soldiers has been criminally prosecuted for the shocking abuse at Abu Ghraib, despite evidence that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and several top generals played a role in sanctioning practices such as sexually humiliating prisoners and threatening them with dogs. Democrats now will have the opportunity — and the duty — to insist on accountability.”
This movie was shot using a cell phone camera at a library on the UCLA campus. It records an American student being electrocuted by police using a taser stun gun, not once, not twice, but at least five times.
What did the student do? He was reading a book in his own university’s library without a government ID card. He did not become violent at any time. He only screamed when he was electrocuted, and shouted at the police officers to try to get them to stop attacking him, and to bring student witnesses to see the attack.
Police then threatened to attack the witnesses with stun guns if they did not leave the scene of the brutality, and let the attack continue unseen.
His name: Mostafa Tabatabainejad.
Doesn’t sound American to you? What does it mean to be an American, then? Does it mean that someone has to have a name like John Smith? Does it mean that a person has to be of English descent?
Welcome to the Homeland. No, not the United States of America. The USA is gone. The USA had the Bill of Rights. The USA had habeas corpus. This is now the nation of Homeland Security.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad is an American. He was born in the USA, a resident of Los Angeles.
Apparently, that’s not good enough any more. Mostafa Tabatabainejad is not allowed to be a citizen of the Homeland, because his ancestors came from Iran.
The Homeland Security cult’s worship of the American nation is exposed ably by F. G. Fitzer at Irregular Times, who takes note of the prominent opposition of Republican presidential candidate John Cox to the attempt by people to hand over American independence to international bureaucrats… even though no one is trying to hand over American independence to international bureaucrats.
Where is the conspiracy to end American sovereignty, Mr. Cox?
The conspiracy only exists in the mind of John Cox, and in the implications of the Homeland Security cult that John Cox accepts. The Homeland Security cult is based on a nationalist ideology that values the nationalist power of the USA above all else, and presumes that evil enemies are trying to destroy that nationalist front through invisible plots.
That’s a pretty scary background for presidential campaign, but then, the vision of reality from inside the Homeland is colored through Code Orange glasses.