No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any
way destroyed,
nor will We proceed against or prosecute him,
except by the
lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land."
"To no one will We sell, to no one will We deny or
delay, right or justice."
In this interview, America Moral Degenerate, Noam Chomsky discusses the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which ignores the laws of our land, the Consitution, the Bill of Rights, and human rights dating back to and before the Magna Carta.
Obama claims the power to detain any one he wants, and assassinate anyone he wants.
Many people who voted for Obama are in this position. Many of the people who voted for Obama don't keep up with news and don't know what the NDAA is. Or if they do know, then they often "trust" Obama.
Yet, the Founders designed a government that deliberately was not built on trust but on suspicion. The Founders set up a government to check human flaws. The argument goes that we are all children of Adam and Eve, and therefore we all have flaws. This tendency to human error is why the Constitution and Bill of Rights exist, based on the Medieval Magna Carta signed by the flawed King John, the enemy of the legendary Robin Hood. The British barons could no longer tolerate a chaotic government and forced John to sign the document.
So, the NDAA must go away, with the Patriot Act, and all the other petty tyrant scribblings and ravings, down into the trash bin of history.
We the People must take to heart this statement by George Washington:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
The Founders knew this day would come. The chess game that is the Constitution and the tyrant tethering that is the Bill of Rights worked to check the people who tried to rule US. Now, We the People must face the situation we are in.
America Moral Degenerate. Interview with Noam Chomsky. Reader Supported News. December 14, 2012.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15019-focus-noam-chomsky-america-moral-degenerate
The Magna Carta.
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