Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)







Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Baghdad Burning and Senate Bill 1867

Attack on Baghdad and Attack on US.

Treason in the US Senate. SB 1867 "Indefinite Detention Bill." YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv1O6goo7qE&feature=youtu.be

"Draft Petition-Arrest Warrent for Rogue US Senators Who Support National Defense Authorization."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoVoBFz7890&feature=related

Baghdad Burning, 2003 to 2007
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

The Riverbend Blog explains the origin as being a "Girl Blog from Iraq...let's talk war, politics and occupation."

The girl from Iraq lists links to the BBC, New York Times, Alternet, Al-Jazeera, News for Nerds, and Iraq Today.
There are also links to the Iraq Occupation Watch, the Iraq Body Count, the IACenter, Back to Iraq, Dear Raed, Turning Tables, and Today in Iraq. As if these links weren't enough, there are more to MediaChannel, Juan Cole and Guerrilla News.
She also includes satire and comedy, with links to The Onion and Dilbert. I clicked the Onion, as I had never heard of this site. A warning explains that the site is not for viewers under 18 years of age. The shopping cart listed "Department of Homeland Security Cologne," a fairly nice piece of satire.

The girl from Iraq is a clever, clear, and funny writer. But her fine talent is diverted to documenting her thoughts and observations from a first-hand view of the Bush-begun 2003 war in Iraq. From August 2003 to October 2007, she writes a painful narrative, turning from wariness to bitterness as she witnesses and realizes that it is psychopathy and corruption implementing an annhilation of the people and culture of Iraq.

Reading the blog today, December 07, 2011, is especially poignant, and in fact serves as a warning.
This week, the majority of US senators voted for S.1867. The legislation is illegal in that it violates the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The senators voted to allow military to arrest and detain indefinitely and and all US citizens.

"Detention Camp Order Follows Preparations for Civil Unrest," written by Paul Joseph Watson on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, covers the recent Senate legislation, along with the topic of prisons built for US citizens without a trial or evidence. Halliburton and subsidiary KBR, which is Kellogg. Brown and Root Services,  are contracting for the prisons called "emergency environment" camps.

 A commentator for the article, Nailer45 says: December 7, 2011 at 9:16 am

"...The Government giving Miltary hardware to the police...
Bill S.1867  ... let’s the military detain Americans on a whim.
...the KBR memo saying FEMA camps are to be staffed and ready...
pushing hard line tactics and Unconstitutional measures upon us?
... something very Bad is about to go down ...

The post was edited to be 50 words for this blog, and reading the commentator's thoughts in their entirity is valuable. The commentator has summed up the same situation as the Baghdad Burning blogger. The US government and the local government attack the constitutional protections of freedom of speech and of the press, of habeaus corpus, of right to a fair trial. Soon, there is open warfare upon innocent men, women, teens, tweens, kids, toddlers, babies, infants.

Bill S. 1867, and other writings such as the Patriot Act exist in violation of US law. The supreme law of the land is the Constitution and Bill of Rights. No one can take away these natural rights. But as explained by Baghdad Burning and the commentator above, there are plenty of psychopaths ready to wreck havoc and bloodshed on innocent people.

Here is a link to S.1867 -- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Engrossed in Senate [Passed Senate] - ES)
Carl Levin, in the Senate, introduced the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 on November 13, 2011. The companion bill is H.R. 1540
On December 1, 2011, the Senate passed the bill, with 93 voting in favor and 7 voting against the bill.

S.1867 is discussed an article "U.S. Senate Authorizes Military to Detain U.S. Citizens," by Steve Newcomb, December 06, 2011, for Indian Country Today.  Newcomb reviews the devastating impact of the Patriot Act and S.1867. "...the United States Senate has authorized the subjection of U.S. citizens to prolonged military detention (internment) under the law of war without trial...a dark force indeed is in control of the U.S. government. The U.S. ship-of-state is headed directly towards a gigantic iceberg...full steam ahead.’"

An article titled, "S.1867 'Indefinite Detention' Defense Bill Passes Senate, by the Conservative Action Alerts, December 2, 2011, contains the follows quote from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano:
“[S.1867] basically says that the President can arrest whoever he wants anywhere in the United States of America, and keep them without charging them for a crime, without letting them see a lawyer, without bringing them to a judge for as long as he wants. How is that consistent with the Constitution?”

The article links to "Tell Obama: Veto the 2012 Defense Bill as it stands."
The page includes a list of senators who voted to support the Constitution and Bill of Rights:
Six U.S. senators voted against S.1867.
Sen. Thomas Harkin, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sen Thomas Coburn, Sen. Mike Lee, and Sen. Rand Paul.
The page also lists the 92 treasonous senators who voted against the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington.

As American citizens, we have a right and a duty to uphold the principles in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, not just for ourselves, but for all human beings. We must control our servants we send to Washington D.C., else they become our masters. We must restore our course of liberty and justice for all.

We can view a reminder from Thomas Jefferson as he became President of the United States.
Here is an excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address:

"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."

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