Posted on 11/16/2001 1:22:57 PM PST by shuckmaster
Boonie Rat
MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
Sorry,I'm not with this.
I believe this was originally a call for vengance against Lincoln.
Can't agree with that,but thanks for the ping.
Joking aside, this person is correct that the powers that be in D.C. are assuming roles that they are not entitled to assume, under the pretext of war, which has not been formally declared by Congress.
Law and Order types need to stop sniffing the ink of the Legalist and start paying attention. Their chants of "law and order" mean nothing as the law is now officially an @ss.
Either Congress needs to declare war, now, or these powers that the monsters on the Hill are assuming are invalid and illegal. Heck, even in time of war most (but not all) of the things they are doing now would be illegal and un Constitutional. Without that declaration, they are plain criminal.
Move to where you have no ties to bind... be free as the wind blows... go buy and island... start a revolution... create your own tyrany or anarchy, whichever best suits you... or just post on the internet.
Boonie Rat
MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
To the author, and fellow handwringers....So let's see. If all comes to pass that is requested by the FedGov, and there is no sign that anything will be thwarted, the following items will transpire or are already authorized to transpire.
National ID cards.
Secret searches of private residences without notifying the occupent of the premisis to be searched.
Judges being forced by law to rubber stamp any request for a warrant that the police demand.
Indiscriminant blanket wiretapping without a warrant.
Internet tracking of individuals without a warrant.
Secret courts where the defense is not allowed to see the evidence against the accused.
The A.G. being able to declare any person or group as "terrorist" without the slightest shred of evidence, thus erasing that person/groups rights to a trial by jury or even a trial.
Face scanning cameras on every street corner.
Individuals being declared as terrorists for questioning the authority of government (check out the FBI pamphlet which was released in Arizona and quickly covered up detailing that "super patriots", aka most people on this site, are suspected "terrorists" for speaking out against the government or citing the Constitution).
Congress being given bills to pass without being given the details of the bill (see Ron Paul's complaint on this issue), and expected to rubber stamp the legislation.
And don't even get me started about the nice little designs the Feds are trying to push on the local State govs, in the form of plans to confiscate private property, commandeer Nurses and Doctors and force relocation to stadiums to receive mandatory, untested and potentially dangerous immunizations.
And this is only the start. But yeah, sure, we're handwringers. Either Congress needs to officially declare war and get on with its business or we need to seriously evaluate what is going on in this nation and not turn a "non critical" cheek to these actions just because we happen to like the current occupent of the Oval Office.
I was born in New Jersey, but raised in Florida (since I was two).
I went to FSU, located in Tallahassee, FL, the only Southern capital not to fall to the invaders in the War of Northern Aggression.
I have always considered myself Yankee by birth, Southerner by the Grace of G-d.
Just don't shoot me...
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