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Guest Post: Judge Katherine Forrest Is A Modern American Hero
Submitted by John Aziz of Azizonomics
Judge Katherine Forrest is a Modern American Hero
Sometimes, the greatest deeds are done by those who are just doing their jobs, like Judge Katherine Forrest who last week struck down the indefinite detention provision (§1021) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
It would be all too easy in this age of ever-encroaching authoritarianism in America for a judge ruling on a matter like this to just go with the government line and throw water over the plaintiffs. After all, telling truth to power has consequences. Forrest was appointed by Obama, but after this ruling one wonders whether she is about to meet a career dead-end. Power — especially narcissistic power — does not like being told uncomfortable truths.
Everything about this case is shameful; it should be obvious to anyone who can read the Constitution that indefinite detention without trial (just like assassination without trial — something else that Obama and his goons have no problem practicing and defending) is hideously and cruelly unconstitutional. It defecates upon both the words and the spirit of the document.
It is directly and completely in contravention to the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
It is shameful that this law was proposed, it is shameful that any legislator would vote for it, and it is shameful that the President would sign it into law, albeit with a flimsy signing-statement claiming that he would not use the indefinite detention provision against American citizens.
More shameful still is the fact that when this challenge was brought that the Obama administration tried to dismiss it on a technicality — they tried to make the case that because none of the plaintiffs were to be indefinitely detained that they could not challenge the law. Judge Forrest’s investigation of this claim was revealing. Naomi Wolf notes:
Forrest asked repeatedly, in a variety of different ways, for the government attorneys to give her some assurance that the wording of section 1021 could not be used to arrest and detain people like the plaintiffs. Finally she asked for assurance that it could not be used to sweep up a hypothetical peaceful best-selling nonfiction writer who had written a hypothetical book criticizing US foreign policy, along lines that the Taliban might agree with. Again and again the two lawyers said directly that they could not, or would not, give her those assurances. In other words, this back-and-forth confirmed what people such as Glenn Greenwald, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the ACLU and others have been shouting about since January: the section was knowingly written in order to give the president these powers; and his lawyers were sent into that courtroom precisely to defeat the effort to challenge them. Forrest concluded: ”At the hearing on this motion, the government was unwilling or unable to state that these plaintiffs would not be subject to indefinite detention under [section] 1021. Plaintiffs are therefore at risk of detention, of losing their liberty, potentially for many years.“
Very simply, it is now obvious that the NDAA was written not to deal with terrorists or potential terrorists. After all, if the government has evidence that an individual or group is planning to commit a terrorist attack then they do not need an indefinite detention provision; all they need is to arrest such individuals and prove beyond reasonable doubt before a jury of their peers that a crime has been committed. That is how justice works — if the evidence exists you can bring a successful prosecution. After all if they do not have the evidence to prove that a group or individual was planning to commit an act of terrorism then they have no business arresting them or charging them with any offense. Suspects — lest we forget — are innocent until proven guilty.
These new powers have nothing to with combatting terrorism. If the government has no evidence that can stand up in a court of law it has no business detaining anyone. No, this new power grab has an entirely different target — like the plaintiffs in this case: writers, investigative journalists, bloggers, philosophers, dissidents, human rights activists, libertarians, free-thinkers, tax protestors, critics of fractional-reserve banking, whistleblowers — people like Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Jennifer Bolen, and Birgitta Jonsdottir. People like Congressman Justin Amash and Congressman Adam Smith who tried to amend indefinite detention out of the bill. People like me — and to some degree, if you are reading this, people like you.
The fact that the Obama administration could not give assurances about those who simply criticise U.S. foreign policy indicates very strongly that this power grab is about shutting-up and frightening critics of the U.S. government and the Obama administration.
But — for now — §1021 of the NDAA, that implement of fascism, has been struck down and thrown out as “facially unconstitutional” as well as having a “chilling impact on First Amendment rights”.
We should thankful for this brave judge’s actions, and for the plaintiffs actions in standing up to tyranny, and vigilant against future incursions.
On the other hand, every politician involved in writing, legislating and authorising this hideous unconstitutional law should be reminded of the words of the Declaration of Independence — it is the right of the people to alter or abolish any government that becomes destructive to liberty.
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It's Hendersonville, just up off of the flat lands of SC. Have not heard of an empty prison near Boone.
what's wrong with lesbians
Absolutely nothing... except for them Hell's Angels lookin' ones ;)
Absolutely real and true, they have capacity for 25 million people. Many are setup to handle entire families while others are setup more like a prison. It should be clear what the intentions are just based on the bills passed and the executive orders signed by Obama recently. These are all in anticipation of massive civil unrest, they know what's coming and they also know there is no way to avoid it.
They've also built thousands of equipment maintenance centers for various transport and weaponized machinary. They built one about 2 miles fmor my house and I have never seen anything there but new equipment still wrapped in the plastic. Right now and for the last couple of weeks it is filled to the gills with tanks, personel transports, humvees with 50cal and jeeps. It went basically empty for the first two years but now it is full for a couple weeks.
I think some of this equiment will be used here, once the pending financial meltdown happens and martial law is implemented (along with bank holidats, capital controls, etc) they'll start to turn on some of these executive order capailities like confiscation of pretty much anything the President wants - homes, business, weapons, food, farms, anything! Let's not forget the 450 million hollow point bullets the DHS just purchased, guess they got a deal they couldnt pass up huh?
I expect that if they can't control the economic situation through the fall Obama (and congress) will announce a state of emergency and postpone the elections - believe dat! I think they now realize that they are losing control and are therefore stepping up preparations. The debut of their thinking was probably in Chitown at the NATO summit.
With martial law will come a knock at the door asking (telling) you for your weapons if you have any registered - nice. They have the ability under those orders to confiscate pretty much anything at all no matter how minor or major - a vehicle to an entire business! If we make it past late summer I'd be really surprised, seem possible things could meltdown as early as this week!
Can you spell b-u-l-l-s-h-i-t.
I thought so.
FYI, Diebold elects who they want for them. No need to cancel elections.
This is all political bullshit--the Bill of Rights has just been a piece of paper under some glass in Washington D.C. for several decades now. Law enforcement can do whatever it wants to do and there ain't jack shit you can do about it. Most people think if the cops arrested and beat the shit out of you, you must have done something wrong. As long as citizens think of government as friendly rather than corrupt by nature then government will have autonomous powers.
Law enforcement can do whatever it wants to do and there ain't jack shit you can do about it.
As long as you THINK and believe that, its right for YOU.
Don't ASSume everyone else will take it.
There are 310,000,000 of us and about 1000 of them.
It is the will to revolt that makes a difference. Sheer numbers mean nothing.
Most of those 310,000,000 will be easily frightened, easily controlled. They wil be the ones who turn you in.
The good news is, large numbers not required for a revolution. It also helps that the more TPTB have to feed and control, the faster they lose grip on power, the faster they run out of resources, and the sooner they collapse upon themselves. The bad news is, collapsing governments are ruthless. Desperation and power are a deadly combination.
Illegal detention was a travesty quite familiar to the founding fathers. It is instructive to reread the Trial of William Penn. http://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/penntrial.htm
There are neither rights nor freedoms in any meaningful sense unless they can be enjoyed by all. In their own countries the Nazis of Hitler had their rights; the Fascists of Mussolini had theirs; and the Communists of Stalin had theirs. Yet millions in Germany, Italy, and Russia died in concentration camps or purges or from other acts of sadistic cruelty. The important thing to remember is that in none of these nations were these cruelties put upon the people by foreign conquerors. They were initiated and executed by their own leaders when the people abandoned to them the unbridled power to rule. This mindless abandonment of power by the people was accorded in the belief that these tyrants would eliminate prevailing economic evils. Thus, it was the evasion of responsibility--not the subjucation by force--that led to the erosion of rights, and eventually, to catclysmic disaster.
Earl Warren, "A Republic, If You Can Keep It"
emphasis mine :-)
She should get a Congressional Medal of Honor except they only give those to paid killers who are pawns of the MIC and not to defenders of liberty, freedom and the Constituition. I'll keep my money, guns and liberty, you can keep the "Change."
Personally, I think what is most shameful is that the media barely mentioned the story, and when they did, they didn't let citizens know how badly they were being stripped of rights. 99% of people don't even know Obama created this law, and if they do, many believe the media spin that it's for our own good/to stop terrorism.
One hunderd and ninety three repubicans voted for it or it would not have made it to Obama's desk. Repuke or democrap it makes no difference who is in charge.
The USSA has the worlds highest incarceration rate per capita...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
and if you happen to be born with dark skin and an afro you'll have incarceration rates 8x that of your lighter skin brethren.
You can thank the failed war on drugs for most of the distortion in incarceration rates.
Gary Webb would no doubt say the "war on drugs" was working as intended, quite successful, particularly within the Black communities.
if he were alive.
Great, great point, CA, both on the occultist dialectic and on Webb, another undersung hero.
OT: talking about a modern american hero, here is a modern european heroine of my youth : Emanuelle Riva of "Hiroshima mon amour" who at age 85 just made a film presented at Cannes which won unanmimous accolade at first showing; awesome, she is still a queen of the screen.
Sorry, but It just hit the TV and its a trip back thru time, which is my personal wine.
Festival de Cannes: Emmanuelle Riva et Jean-Louis Trintignant, l'amour à mort | Les QuotidiennesVidéo Cannes -
Emmanuelle Riva à propos de "Hiroshima mon amour", vidéo Emmanuelle Riva à propos de "Hiroshima mon amour", vidéo Cannes 1946-1959 - Archives vidéos Cannes 1946-1959 : Ina.fr
Wonder if she would be willing to rule on where the clown was born? Then again, I think we already know.
Lest we forget, the oath of office for all gov't officials, requires them to uphold the constitution. Everyone of these mother fuckers is in breach of their solumn oath and subject to impeachment, or worse.
WASHINGTON — A judge may have found unconstitutional the law that allows people to be held indefinitely without trial by the military, but the House of Representatives voted Friday to keep it anyway.
On Wednesday, Federal Judge Katherine Forrest found that the law violates rights to free speech and due process. But House members defended it, ultimately voting 238 to 182 against an amendment to guarantee civilian trials for any terrorism suspect arrested in the United States.
If any one is in need of a litmus test. Just check to see how your representative voted.
I am all about the "worse".
"(just like assassination without trial — something else that Obama and his goons have no problem practicing and defending)"
Wake up and smell the coffee, every President in my lifetime (I'm pretty old) and probably every President since GW has ordered assassinations. It's a part of our foreign policy.
Funny how you old people seem to be the most likely to give up OUR freedoms and Liberty -apparently so your social security and medicaid from being cut. There aren't many old eople I will even listen to -they've drunk the koolaid far too many times and for far too long. Someday someone will give you a Jim Jones koolaid cocktail, and your ignorance and gullibility will be your demise. Most of you are a bunch of zombie pod people. That being said, your ignorant, simplistic assessement (historically inaccurate anyway) is not worthy of even responding to.
Funny how pukefaces like you would rather erode resistance against totalitarian ponzi schemes and erosion of even the most basic rights, for the sake of divide and conquer infighting.
That, or you're just another psyops co-opting some stupid tendencies at ZH, to amplify them. Retarded or malicious... choose your poison - it's not like it make any difference regarding the consequences.
Funny how you old people seem to be the most likely to give up OUR freedoms and Liberty -apparently so your social security and medicaid from being cut. There aren't many old eople I will even listen to -they've drunk the koolaid far too many times and for far too long. Someday someone will give you a Jim Jones koolaid cocktail, and your ignorance and gullibility will be your demise. Most of you are a bunch of zombie pod people. That being said, your ignorant, simplistic assessement (historically inaccurate anyway) is not worthy of even responding to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
I'll hit that!
lol have you zerohedgers never heard of her before? brb donning flannel grabbing my copy of the beauty myth while rocking out to bikini kill
Riot girls, fuck yeah. LOL right back atcha.
Uncle Sam Trumps You!
The pigs are scared and everyone is a suspect.
It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.
Clint Eastwood
High Plains Drifter
she had some difficulties in her private life of sexual orientation in nature.
bouts of feelings of worthless including heavy depression.
the rope her hands where tied with was hers as was the gun and bullets that penetrated the left lingual gyrus.
her decomposing body was found sealed inside her own suitecase.
according to a british mi5 and mi6 escapologist speciialist once she had tired her own hands she used her teeth to close the case zipper.
and used her big toe to commit suicide.
president barry stated.
this s a loss.it really is a terrible loss.
clearly we have lost a great american who was doing sterling work in the areas of national defence.
she died so we could all live safe and secure in are beds at night safe from the bogey men with long beards.
i have lost a friend a colleague a confidant.
she will be missed greatly by the famly my consigliere rahm has assured me that her disposal by helicopter at sea was in accordance with musselamic law.
Habeas Corpus. Produce the body. Protection from extraordinary rendition, torture, being held incommunicado, murder.
Brought to bear upon the british monarchy to prevent extraordinary rendition, permanent detainment without trial, torture, being held incommunicado, and murder in the twelth century and throught the middle ages.
A (the) fundamental basis of our lawful society.
There's nothing new under the sun. It's not "different this time". There can only be Constitutional rule of law.
Exactly, good citizen!
Since the president of the USA took an oath to obey and support and defend the US Constitution, as did the vice president, as the the member of the US Congress, as did the judges sitting on the US Supreme Court --- almost every single one should have been arrested by this point and tossed in jail.
Oops, forgot all we've got are those FBI guys dating Ann Coulter, or the Secret Service guys stiffing the escort services in foreign countries.
What fascist would thumbs down that comment.
THE OBAMA RECORD
Overturned: About a year and a month ago, President Obama went on national television supporting the firing of Black-American teachers in Chicago.
Fortunately, a federal judge ruled their firing to be unlawful termination.
Overturned: Sometime back, Shirley Sherrod was unethically dismissed from the Agriculture Department, and her unlawful termination was settled out of court to her satisfaction.
Overturned: The other week, Dr. Cate Jenkins, who was unethically terminated from the EPA under the Obama administration (she was a heroic whistleblower during the Bush administration), was reinstated to her position, with back pay, by a federal court.
Overturned: A U.S. District Court in New York has blocked provisions in last year’s Defense authorization bill that allow for military detention for terror suspects, throwing a wrench in the debate that will take place on the House floor Thursday.
District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled against the U.S. government and in favor of a group of civilian activists and journalists who had sued over the detention provisions in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, according to Reuters. The plaintiffs had said they feared being detained indefinitely by the law.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/17/ndaa-section-1021-coup-detat-foiled
Yes, President Obama has shelved that child labor law his administration has been working on the past three years, but at least he's sort of embraced that gay thing, huh?
And that Trans-Pacific Partnership to screw the workers, huh?
Each administration builds on the foundations of those before it.
Did John Aziz actually believe Obama was going to "change course" of our government?
Seems to me these horrible crimes against the Constitution are all really really old news.
Blame Ken Starr. That fucker so powerfully politicized the impeachment process that there is no longer any way to impeach a President--everyone's afraid it would look "political," rather than just corrupt. Fuck 'em all.
We oughta let Charles Manson out of prison and make him President just for hoots. Or maybe Kissinger, instead.
Don't get too excited. Your constitution is just another government law.
Are you talking about Constitution 2.0, put into effect somewhere around 1913?
Better go read it. Its not from any government you have ever seen. So it is in no way "just another".
Did EVERYONE have a say in its writing? Then it's just another law.
It certainly isn't the Koran or the Bible.
It sure would be nice to use the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) against real criminals on Wallstreet. Lock them up forever!
The Meltdownman
"As our Free American Army entered DC, Capt. Frank Smith led the assault on the WH. The Dicktaster was arrested, after being found in a hidden room with Korans, crack pipes, and 10-yr old naked boys in chains.
'It was disgusting,' Smith observed. 'The entire room was littered with empty 40s, crack pipes, zig-zag packs, and the floor was real sticky.'
Since the Dicktaster had been found to be in office illegally and could not be charged with treason, he was charged with criminal sexual child abuse and is now in a maximum security miltary prison, where he is being carefully guarded by NASCAR fans."
The end of the world is near... The ten plagues of Pharaoh “have been brought upon” the USA.
From the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007
http://eamb-ydrohoos.blogspot.com/2010/02/ten-plagues-of-pharaoh.html
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It is the absolute tragedy for the USA. The former illegal immigrants had become the masters of their land; the ultimate masters. The people who wanted to collaborate with the Jews to become “Pharaohs” had the same bad luck. The greedy “locust” of the Asiatic desert swapped the USA and left absolutely nothing standing. The formerly rich people of the New World have been drained of their money to such a degree that they have passed the point of poverty and are headed towards starvation. The Americans now experience desperation and trust in God. Poor and hungry people gather around the fire to warm and cast their eyes up to heaven as their last hope. These are the former planet leaders...
Authored by Panagiotis Traianou
Just one small example of the criminals in charge of the USA: Over 100k dead in Iraq. For fucking nothing. Nothing that they said it was for anyhow.
Still a huge amount of people think it was for a good cause.
The House just passed another amdt to the NDAA where now you're not entitled to habeas corpus immediately but would have to wait 30 days. AND the NDAA allows them to ship you off to a foreign land. Example: They take you to Saudi Arabia and release you. Now the Saudi govt arrests you and you never do get that habeas corpus. The fact that they would pass this amdt after the judge struck down Section 1021 is a pretty sure sign Obama admin will appeal the judges ruling on Section 1021.
One World Mafia
The House just passed another amdt to the NDAA where now you're not entitled to habeas corpus immediately but would have to wait 30 days.
H R # PLEASE, and LINK
I think this is the amendemnt mentioned. it PASSED
http://gohmert.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=296195
There was another amendment to limit the powers undr the NDAA ... it FAILED
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h269
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/political-potpourri/...
Its beyond comprehension that a section could be declared unconstitutional and an amendment to address this fails. Would that not be breaking their oath of office to support the Constitution.
bless her heart ; a real hero (& i'm proud to say, it's a WOMAN !)
Reporters discover lost Obama vacation picture:
http://funkyimg.com/u2/1705/371/583514tumblr_m3oh8m04fY1qjwq58o1_400.jpg
she did the moral thing.
she has to die.
she is not with the programme.
that programme will not be televised or reported.
because journalists are in the programme.
they put aborted baby parts in fizzy drinks and soups.
no mention of the padophile rings in westminster and washington.
they put cancer cells in vaccines and inject us when we are kids.
the horror will not be televised just ignored by the masses who will carry on
drinkin the baby part flavor cool aid.
Judge Forrest sounds like a national security threat. She better look out Obama will send a hit squad after her. IMPEACH OBAMA TODAY!!!
Without due process no citizen has any civil rights. NDAA is full blown tyranny and our treacherous congress passed it into law. Congress is a national security threat. Where is the outrage.
my fellow americans.
it is a sad day for america.
she had been depressed for some time.
sexual orientation issues we here.
lesbianism clinical depression and psychotropical drugs make difficult bed fellows for some.
with her passing i your simple honest president have lost a friend an ally a confidant.
fbi sources state that she was found dead in her own home.
it seems...
she tied her hands and legs with her own rope.
got inside her own suitecase sealed the suitecase from the inside.
used her own gun firing into the left lingual gyrus,the hollow point blasting out the
occipital lobe, calcarine sulcus and the posterior part of the collateral sulcus.
are brothers in arms over the pond at mi6 have run escapology tests with us and we have concluded her own teeth where used on the suicase zipper.
and her own big toe fired the kill shot.
no other parties where involved.
this great lady like all of us in government worked night and day protecting simple folks like you from the men from iran with beards,who hate us for are freedoms.
on my instructions my consigiliere rahm of the chicago family has had her body, helicopter buried at sea in traditional musselamic style.
this american hero truly now sleeps with the fishes.
"Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever."
Michael to Fredopartying on our dime(s)
Exclusive: 9th Circuit Takes Plush Maui Vacation At Taxpayer Expense, As Others Cut Back
The letter cites the 2010 version of the Ninth Circuit's annual judicial conference that cost taxpayers over $657,000 in travel costs alone, along with $860,000 in combined travel costs for the Ninth Circuit's 2008 and 2009 annual conferences in Monterey, California and Sun Valley, Idaho, respectively.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/19/Exclusive-9th-Circuit-Takes-Another-Plush-Maui-Vacation-At-Taxpayer-Expense-As-Others-Cut-Back
she won't be fired. she'll be promoted to something much higher level.
Lets also thank Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky for bringing the suit in the first place.
I am a Canadian and the hoops we have to jump through to satisfy the USA homeland security bullshit tells me that our government and yours are in cahoots and if the people allow it, they have no one to blame but themselves. Americans and Canadians have been friends for a long time, but these governments have to go.
Complacency is worse than terrorism as it allows terrorists to win, and they have won. Ask all the dead and wounded in Iraq who won the war?
Liberty, my ass.
Obama and Bush should be held to account for war crimes
As an American, please let me extend the hand of friendship with my sincere statement that I and many like me, could not agree with you more.
There is now an MOU permitting use of Canadian troops and NORTHCOM to operate in each others' countries.
Canadian troops could be used to suppress Americans and vice versa.
I love Canada, but if their troops come down here in the woods, they are going home in bags.
I would hate to see it.
I would hate to see US soldiers shot by Canadians, but if our Dick-Taster, The Gay President, sends them up north, You Canucks can feel free to shoot.
I hope the soldiers on each side will refuse to be played.
Fascism as defined by an old Webster's collegiate dictionary from 1978 was defined as a highly nationalistic government with a close cooperation between government and corporations, a stratified society, intense repression and retaliation to dissent, etc.
She just delayed the revolution by 2 minutes.
john - your indignation was delicious and righteous....you, george washington, smartknowledgeu, mike kreiger, charles hughes smith, and probably other overlooked heroes, are warriors for freedom whom i salute - and so is the judge in this case....god bless you all.....
obama is a wicked man doing the lord's will.....
www.obamacrimes.com
At some level I do take issue with be asked to thank a Judge for doing her job. The only thing more disgusting than the bill itself was that one of the authors is John McCain, a former POW. Really John?
what was the topic? oh, yeah...... go girl!
Couldn't agree more Mr. Aziz and further, every legislator involved in bringing this bill up and voting in favor should at best be impeached and at least be voted out of office.
We the people should not stand for "representatives" who knowingly attempt to institute laws which make a mockery of our Constitution. I'm glad the judiciary did it's job and agree Ms Forrest is a hero, but what if she had buckled?
At this delicate time in our nation's history we cannot run the risk of letting crap like this go down without a fight.
Torture doesn't work, because everyone has a breaking point where they will just lie and admit they did something in order to stop the pain.
If I repeatdly rip your toes off one by one and I tell you that im not going to stop until you provide me information, you are going to lie and tell me what I want to hear just to get a moments rest from the pain.
Torture does not work unless you 100% know the guy is guilty to begin with, in which case its pointless because you already have the guilty party under custody.
What we need is laws that protect and make public such interogations so that the will of the people can determine a the fate of the accused instead of the will of the government (who rarely reflects the will of the people).
Everyone should have the right to make a public statement and be tried in a court before being mamed or otherwise imprisoned or harmed.
Without such basic laws, the Government could easily kidnap you just because you were running for president and blame it on someone else, a president could stay in power forever simply by illiminating his oposition.
I'm voting against every one who supported this Hitler-written fascism.
This is a great piece. Thanks, ZH.
I might only quibble with Aziz's phrasing, "and the Obama administration," toward the end. I haven't noticed I'llbombya's admin dismantling the Patriot Act or PD 51: This type of legislation is often around for years or decades, permanently transferring power to both parties, removing power from civilians. So I'd say it applies to critics of our government, period.
I can't understand, either, why so many people buy into the occultist dialectic (my phrase for the false left-right dichotomy pushed by the mm). I'm disgusted with it. A former friend of mine recently asked me "What rights have you lost?". Amazing. Of course, if a Repugnicunt admin had done this, he would be screaming bloody murder.
It's clear to me that one of the solutions is for people to stop watching television. Clearly, this is not going to happen, so the problem is just going to get worse. Most folks are programmed to a hopeless degree of helplessness. They are powerless to see the l/r false paradigm for what it is. They are incapable of admitting that a treasonous government of collaborators is behind this and instead heap the bulk of their frustration on one party or the other, in divisive fashion, just as programmed.
I am disappointed that people cannot see the government for what it is. But then I grew up listening to stuff like this. Maybe they should have. As Simonon asks in this tremendous skank,
When they kick in your front door,
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
It seems to be one of the classic, eternal questions, made all too frighteningly real by legislation like this. Aziz's analogy to the Taliban is apt. I don't know anything else about this judge, but I'm glad someone is saying something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQoq-wqZxg
Or here they do it live, on Fridays (the old TV show, yes), with Joe on bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8QzO6m2zIU