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October 10. 2001. HR 3076.

A BILL

To authorize the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal with respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the future.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds the following:

(1) That the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 upon the United States were acts of air piracy contrary to the law of nations.

(2) That the terrorist attacks were acts of war perpetrated by enemy belligerents to destroy the sovereign independence of the United States of America contrary to the law of nations.

(3) That the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks were actively aided and abetted by a conspiracy involving one Osama bin Laden and others known and unknown, either knowingly and actively affiliated with a terrorist organization known as al Qaeda or knowingly and actively conspiring with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, both of whom are dedicated to the destruction of the United States of America as a sovereign and independent nation.

(4) That the al Qaeda conspiracy is a continuing one among Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and others known and unknown with plans to commit additional acts of air piracy and other similar acts of war upon the United States of America and her people.

(5) That the act of war committed on September 11, 2001, by the al Qaeda conspirators, and the other acts of war planned by the al Qaeda conspirators, are contrary to the law of nations.

(6) That under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, Congress has the power to grant letters of marque and reprisal to punish, deter, and prevent the piratical aggressions and depredations and other acts of war of the al Qaeda conspirators.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF PRESIDENT.

(a) The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in his judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001, and for any planned future air piratical aggressions and depredations or other acts of war upon the United States of America and her people.

(b) The President of the United States is authorized to place a money bounty, drawn in his discretion from the $40,000,000,000 appropriated on September 14, 2001, in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorists Attacks on the United States or from private sources, for the capture, alive or dead, of Osama bin Laden or any other al Qaeda conspirator responsible for the act of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, under the authority of any letter of marque or reprisal issued under this Act.

(c) No letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued by the President without requiring the posting of a security bond in such amount as the President shall determine is sufficient to ensure that the letter be executed according to the terms and conditions thereof.

One of two Bills introduced by Dr. Paul to go after Terrorists.

Note: Dr. Paul also wants a SECURED border which is something President Bush is unwilling to do. Kind of makes the sitting President the one you should be directing your idiotic vitriol towards. After all, Bush wants to build a "democracy" in the middle of the terrorist Nations. Ron Paul wants to kill the terrorists no matter where they hide.

Get over your blind hatred of Ron Paul. Seriously. It makes you look stupid. The guy isn't Presidential material, but that does not mean he isn't RIGHT on a great number of issues.

>> Dr. Paul also wants a SECURED border which is something President Bush is unwilling to do. <<

Funny how 20 years ago, Ron "Deport Illegals" Paul was perfectly happy to not only join a political party that openly espouses OPEN BORDERS, but to serve as their candidate on TOP of the NATONAL ticket and cheerlead for them. Check the Libertarian Party platform and you'll discover they're as supportive of Border Security as Madonna is to chastity. Free Movement of People has long been a key element of libertarianism, and they're so bad on this issue they make Mel Martinez look like a saint.

So Ron, who now claims to be of the minutemen mindset, marched in lockstep with the biggest open borders party in the U.S. 20 years ago.

What's next, Kate Michelman seeks the nomination of the Right to Life Party and promises to end abortion?

Will those going after ObL be allowed to use anything more modern than flintlocks and blunderbusses? Did you know that Old Ironsides is still a commissioned ship of the US Navy at Boston Harbor and occasionally sails? Will our 21st century pirates have to wear tri-cornered hats and eye patches and have a parrot on each soldier??? Will they dance the minuet only at formal balls of those holding letters of marque and reprisal??? Anyone who loves our country knows enough to despise paleoPaulie and anything else paleo. He is unbalanced. He is a farce. Paleowhateverism is NOT conservatism.

What is needed is our professional REGULAR military and it needs to be significantly expanded and lavishly equipped and well compensated and it does not need to be deployed as F Troop or as the Keystone Kops on the border while comic opera modern pirates try to do the heavy lifting in the Middle East Islamofasciststans. The Mexicans are here and the overwhelming majority are NOT going back. Get over it. When history is written, Dubya will look like a prophet and his opponents will look, well, embarrassing. The issue is dead and the border obsessives have lost. We are making up for 50 million sliced, diced and hamburgerized innocent babies. When the Junior League, the polo club or the yacht basin change stances and resist further abortions or "gay" "marriages" or support the RTKBA be sure to get back to us. Libertoonianism and conservatism are clean different things. I reserve the right to change my tack on this if the Mexican president continues to imagine that he can dictate policy to the US.

If paleoPaulie WERE presidential material, that would be proof that America is finished as a nation. Happily, he isn't and the US has fine prospects under adult leadership.

Now, it is also true that whether paleoPaulie is "right" on an issue doesn't matter one bit since he is unwilling to DO anything about any important issue. The litany of his two-faced ideological dishonesty is too long to be repeated here in detail but a few keywords for the trip down Memory Lane: treasonous weaselry in being an Al Qaeda spokesthing; disingenuous whining about declarations of war (when did ANY nation declare war since WWII and is there a reason why not like the UN Charter???); shrimpin' earmarks, troley earmarks, bus earmarks, many other earmarks. Kerry tried to be for things before he was against them and vice versa. PaleoPaulie wants to take both positions simultaneously.

I would bet that my IQ is a LOT higher than yours. Proof #I: I know what it is and you don't. Proof #2: You support the paleosurrendermonkey and I don't and you even regard the silly twit as a conservative.

Avast, Matey, all aboard the gunsloop Paleo for adventures in Islamofasciststan!!!