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Dannielle Blumenthal PhD
1) Military tribunals are legal even without martial law. Therefore, QAnon is correct when saying they can occur. The following is my response to Gingrich_of_PA. I leave it up to Gingrich_of_PA whether he will admit that QAnon is not a LARP.
2) Q: What do the following conflicts have in common?
-Revolutionary War
-Mexican War
-Civil War
-Spanish-American War
-WWI
A: Military tribunals.
3) “While not so familiar to lawyers generally, it is a commonplace to the military and international lawyer that a body of criminal law exists for the punishment of offenses committed in time of armed hostilities in violation of the laws of war.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25714912?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
4) “As a part of the law of nations it is a part of the available law of all nations.”
5) What follows is valid despite the Ex parte Milligan case (1866).
6) In that case, “The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunals_in_the_United_States#cite_note-autogenerated1-1
7) An exception to Milligan occurs where we are dealing with an active war zone.
8) “Military commissions were also used in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War; as these were used in an active war zone as an expedient of war, they did not fall afoul of Milligan.” (Bradley & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law, 2nd Ed, 2006, p.266.)
9) The United States, right now, is an active war zone.
10) One definition of a war zone is: “a zone in which belligerents are waging war broadly: an area marked by extreme violence.”
10) One definition of a war zone is: “a zone in which belligerents are waging war broadly: an area marked by extreme violence.”
Definition of WAR ZONE
War zone definition is - a zone in which belligerents are waging war; broadly : an area marked by extreme violence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20zone
11) “In 2012, the U.S. Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with relatively little attention from the media;despite the freedoms it obliterated. The NDAA was enacted to empower the U.S. military to fight the war on terror.”
Dear Americans: This Law Makes It Possible To Arrest And Jail You Indefinitely Anytime
Terrorism may not be the worst threat to freedom that we face.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-americans-this-law-makes-it-possible-to-arrest_b_57c9b648e4b06c750dd9cd6f
12) “But buried in this law are two provisions (Sections 1021 and 1022) that authorize the indefinite military detention, without charge or trial, of any person labeled a “belligerent” -including an American citizen.”
13) “The Supreme Court has expounded the nature of the applicable international law as follows:
14) Source: Coleman vs. Tennessee and Dow v. Johnson.
Source: Trial of War Criminals by Military Tribunals, Major Willard B. Cowles, American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 30, No. 6 (June 1944), pp. 330-333, 362,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25714912?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
15) “The question here is, What is the law which governs an army invading an enemy’s country? It is not the civil law of the invaded country: It is not the civil law of the conquering country: it is military law, the law of war.”
16) “The fact that war is waged between two countries negatives the possibility of jurisdiction being exercised by the tribunals of the one country over persons engaged in the military service of the other for offenses committed while in such service.”
17) “The laws of the state for the punishment of crime were continued in force only for the protection and benefit of its own people….But their continued enforcement is not for the protection or control of the Army, or its officers or soldiers.
18) “These [individuals] remain subject to the laws of war, and are responsible for their conduct...to...the tribunals to which those laws are administered.”
19) “If guilty of wanton cruelty to persons, or of unnecessary spoilation of property, or of other acts not authorized by the laws of war, they may be tried and punished by the military tribunals. They are amenable to no other tribunal.”
20) “The officers or soldiers of neither army could be called to account civilly or criminally in those [the ordinary] tribunals for such acts, whether those acts resulted in the destruction of property or the destruction of life;”
21) “nor could they be required by those tribunals to explain or justify their conduct upon any averment of the injured party that the acts complained of were unauthorized by the necessities of war.”
22) QAnon is telling us about military tribunals, because the people who are being tried in secret, or who will be tried publicly, are unlawful enemy combatants, civilians who are engaging in terror against their own Nation, as part of a larger invasion by a foreign nation.
23) Or nations working in concert, with or without nation-states or other entities not formally recognized as such.
24) This is the reality that we face. And you can spend your time attacking each other, or spend your time learning, preparing and supporting our Nation for the difficult years ahead, as we reconcile the facts with what we were told for so long.
(End.)
Let me respectfully disagree with the author of this piece.
We do not become an "active war zone" unless there is an insurrection defined by the Insurrection Act of 1807. It will occur when Black Lives Matter and Antifa take up arms and succeed in holding territory. It will occur when city and state police forces engage in firefights when confronted by federal law enforcement authorities enforcing federal law.
We aren't there yet.
Good stuff!
The President and the Q team are laying the groundwork for exposing the 100+ secret war the evil bankers have been engaged in, trying to take down this nation. Once more Americans, who were asleep on this, come to this realization, military tribunals will be more than justified in bringing the traitorous perps to justice.
It’s great to be in our digital bunkers helping in this effort to expose it all!
WWG1WGA!!!
CGato
NXIVM background.
Here’s a long-ish article from 2015 that details some of the earlier charges against the NXIVM cult that never really seemed to go anywhere.
As promised yesterday, this is the one that ties the cult to hacking Edgar Bronfman’s computer on which he was exchanging emails with hillary and other world leaders.
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Records-NXIVM-hacked-billionaire-s-emails-with-6576310.php
Ms Keefe has basically gone into hiding. She was a member who claims she started having second thoughts after a while and began spying on the cult. She claims she fled with a trove of documents showing illegal activities.
Some argue that Keefe was simply smart enough to get out while the getting was good. I’m inclined to believe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I do think the evidence she has would be of high interest to prosecutors.
Other notable updates:
- Lauren Salzman’s allocution is posted over on Frank Report https://frankreport.com/2019/04/01/lauren-salzman-signs-cooperation-agreement-with-feds-admits-she-imprisoned-mexican-woman-lied-to-women-about-dos-being-led-by-a-man-raniere/
- The prosecution has submitted a draft list of questions for potential jurors. Frank Parlato has the whole document posted, and has highlighted some excerpts here https://frankreport.com/2019/04/02/branding-rich-folks-people-who-dont-pay-taxes-views-on-having-multiple-sex-partners-are-on-jury-questionnaire-for-nxivm-case/
- Initial jury pool selection is scheduled to start Monday, April 8th. The trial is planned to take place in the Brooklyn courthouse of the Eastern District of NY ( https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/ )
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