sábado, 19 de octubre de 2013

WHO LEADS THE TERRORIST WAR AGAINST THE US?



WHO LEADS THE TERRORIST WAR AGAINST THE US?

I GUESS THE FASCISTS INSIDE OUR GOVERNMENTS…   
This means that we have to go beyond the dirty couple democrats and republicans and create a United Peoples FRONT against fascism to re-build our country.  

Let’s check this in case we miss it

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AMERICANS HAVE LOST VIRTUALLY ALL OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS : “WAR AGAINST US”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/americans-have-lost-virtually-all-of-our-constitutional-rights.html    Posted on October 16, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog     
       


HOW MANY CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS HAVE WE LOST?
This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right.  (This is an updated version of an essay we wrote in February.  Unfortunately, a lot of information has come out since then.)

FIRST AMENDMENT

The 1st Amendment protects speech, religion, assembly and the press:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Supreme Court has also interpreted the First Amendment as protecting freedom of association.

However, the government is arresting those speaking out … http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/keeping-our-heads-down-increases-the-danger.html and violently crushing peaceful assemblies which attempt to petition the government for redress.  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/government-and-big-banks-joined-forces-to-violently-crush-peaceful-protests.html
 
A federal judge found that the law allowing indefinite detention of Americans without due process has a “chilling effect” on free speech.  http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-permanently-blocked-2012-9 And see this http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/03/hedges-ndaa-is-chilling-the-practice-of-journalism/ and this.  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/28/helping-chris-hedges-lawsuit-ndaa
 
There are also enacted laws   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanine-molloff/trespass-bill_b_1328205.html allowing the secret service to arrest anyone protesting near the president or other designated folks    http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/01/does-hr-347-the-trespass-bill-change-any (that might explain incidents like this   http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100406 .

Mass spying by the NSA violates our freedom of association.  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/nsas-spying-on-our-metadata-violates-our-freedom-of-association.html
 
The threat of being labeled a terrorist for exercising our First Amendment rights  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/u-s-government-may-on-a-whim-label-any-american-a-terrorist.html  certainly violates the First Amendment. The government is using laws to crush dissent,   http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/government-uses-anti-terror-laws-to-crush-dissent-and-help-big-business.html  and it’s gotten so bad that even U.S. Supreme Court justices are saying that we are descending into tyranny. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/2-u-s-supreme-court-justices-and-numerous-other-top-government-officials-warn-of-dictatorship.html

 
For example, the following actions may get an American citizen living on U.S. soil labeled as a “suspected terrorist” today:
And holding the following beliefs may also be considered grounds for suspected terrorism:  OPEN: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/government-uses-anti-terror-laws-to-crush-dissent-and-help-big-business.html
Of course, Muslims are more or less subject to a separate system of justice in America.
And 1st Amendment rights are especially chilled when power has become so concentrated that the same agency (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-on-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets-assassinated-by-drones.html)  which spies on all Americans also decides who should be assassinated.


SECOND AMENDMENT

The 2nd Amendment states:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Gun control and gun rights advocates obviously have very different views about whether guns are a force for violence or for good.


But even a top liberal Constitutional law expert reluctantly admits that the right to own a gun is as important a Constitutional right as freedom of speech or religion:  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/top-liberal-constitutional-law-expert-gun-ownership-is-an-individual-constitutional-right-as-important-as-freedom-of-speech-or-religion.html


Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda.

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It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right. It is true that the amendment begins with a reference to militias: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Accordingly, it is argued, this amendment protects the right of the militia to bear arms, not the individual.

Yet, if true, the Second Amendment would be effectively declared a defunct provision. The National Guard is not a true militia in the sense of the Second Amendment and, since the District and others believe governments can ban guns entirely, the Second Amendment would be read out of existence.

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More important, the mere reference to a purpose of the Second Amendment does not alter the fact that an individual right is created. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is stated in the same way as the right to free speech or free press. The statement of a purpose was intended to reaffirm the power of the states and the people against the central government. At the time, many feared the federal government and its national army. Gun ownership was viewed as a deterrent against abuse by the government, which would be less likely to mess with a well-armed populace.

Considering the Framers and their own traditions of hunting and self-defense, it is clear that they would have viewed such ownership as an individual right — consistent with the plain meaning of the amendment.

None of this is easy for someone raised to believe that the Second Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark ages of American culture. Yet, it is time to honestly reconsider this amendment and admit that … here’s the really hard part … the NRA may have been right. This does not mean that Charlton Heston is the new Rosa Parks or that no restrictions can be placed on gun ownership. But it does appear that gun ownership was made a protected right by the Framers and, while we might not celebrate it, it is time that we recognize it.

The gun control debate – including which weapons and magazines are banned – is still in flux …


THIRD AMENDMENT

The 3rd Amendment prohibits the government forcing people to house soldiers:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

While a recent lawsuit by a Nevada family – covered by (Mother Jones, Fox News and Courthouse News – alleges violation of the Third Amendment, this appears to be an isolated incident and an aberration.

So we’ll count this as an Amendment which is still being honored! Score one for We the People!


FOURTH AMENDMENT

The 4th Amendment prevents unlawful search and seizure:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

But the government is spying on everything we do …  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/security-expert-the-details-matter-less-and-less-we-have-to-assume-that-the-nsa-has-everyone-who-uses-electronic-communications-under-constant-surveillance.html  without any real benefit or justification. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/spies-can-now-for-the-first-time-monitor-everything-about-us-and-they-can-do-so-with-a-few-clicks-of-a-mouse-and-to-placate-the-lawyers-a-drop-down-menu-of-justifications.html

Indeed, experts say that the type of spying being carried out by the NSA and other agencies is exactly the kind of thing which King George imposed on the American colonists … which led to the Revolutionary War. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/nsa-spying-is-exactly-the-kind-of-thing-which-caused-the-revolutionary-war-against-king-george.html

And many Constitutional experts – such as Jonathan Turley  http://jonathanturley.org/2013/04/29/the-pavlovian-politics-of-terror/ – think that the police went too far in Boston with lockdowns and involuntary door-to-door searches.  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/did-the-military-and-police-go-too-far-in-locking-down-boston-and-conducting-involuntary-door-to-door-searches.html


FIFTH AMENDMENT

The 5th Amendment addresses due process of law, eminent domain, double jeopardy and grand jury:

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.

But the American government has shredded the 5th Amendment by subjecting us to indefinite detention  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/scandal-alert-congress-is-quietly-abandoning-the-5th-amendment/266498/  or assassination http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html It obviously violates the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial. In both cases, the defendants is “disposed of” without ever receiving a trial … and often without ever hearing the charges against them. [This is] taking away our due process rights. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/governments-indefinitely-detaining-citizens-in-psychiatric-wards-without-due-process-of-law.html

The government claims the right to assassinate or indefinitely detain any American citizen on U.S. citizen without any due process. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html And see this.  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-on-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets-assassinated-by-drones.html

As such, the government is certainly depriving people of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

There are additional corruptions of 5th Amendment rights – such as property being taken for private purposes. http://www.ij.org/new-london-connecticut-release-7-12-2005

The percentage of prosecutions in which a defendant is denied a grand jury is difficult to gauge, as there is so much secrecy http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/u-s-government-claims-that-the-situation-is-so-complicated-and-dangerous-that-it-must-act-on-secret-information-just-like-the-nazis.html surrounding many terrorism trials. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/911-military-trial-judge-frustrated-by-government-censorship-like-the-911-commissioners.html

Protection against being tried twice for the same crime after being found innocent (“double jeopardy”) seems to be intact.  Hey … that’s two Constitutional rights which are still intact!


SIXTH AMENDMENT

The 6th Amendment guarantees the right to hear the criminal charges levied against us and to be able to confront the witnesses who have testified against us, as well as speedy criminal trials, and a public defender for those who cannot hire an attorney:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Subjecting people to indefinite detention or assassination  [see Fifth Amendment above] obviously violates the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial. In both cases, the defendants is “disposed of” without ever receiving a trial … and often without ever hearing the charges against them.

More and more commonly, the government prosecutes cases based upon “secret evidence” http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/u-s-government-claims-that-the-situation-is-so-complicated-and-dangerous-that-it-must-act-on-secret-information-just-like-the-nazis.html that they don’t show to the defendant … or sometimes even the judge hearing the case.

The government uses “secret evidence” to spy on Americans, http://www.hofstralawreview.org/2012/05/15/secret-evidence-is-slowly-eroding-the-adversary-system-cipa-and-fisa-in-the-courts/ prosecute leaking http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1011/Judge_OKs_secret_evidence_for_CIA_leak_trial.html  or terrorism  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/08/judge-secret-evidence-ok-in-iraqi-in-terror-case/ charges (even against U.S. soldiers http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/19/manning-hearing-moves-into-secret-sessions/ )  and even  to assassinate people http://www.salon.com/2011/10/06/execution_by_secret_wh_committee/  And see this http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=67898   and this http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/27/970634/-Wikileaks-Documents-Reveal-Hazards-of-Blindly-Relying-on-Secret-Evidence#  .

Secret witnesses http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/08/opinion/a-new-court-for-terrorism.html [this makes reference to the case Oklahoma] Regarding secret witnesses see: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/27/970634/-Wikileaks-Documents-Reveal-Hazards-of-Blindly-Relying-on-Secret-Evidence# are being used in some cases. And sometimes lawyers are not even allowed to read their own briefs. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/americans-have-lost-virtually-all-of-our-constitutional-rights.html

[It is no clear why they used this reference!!! I GUESS SOURCES OF THIS DOCT HAS BEEN ADULTERATED. IS THIS ANOTHER VICTIM OF US FASCISM?] http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/08/well-known-lawyer-discusses-justice-department-shenanigans.html or this other one See A New Court for Terrorism (case Oklahoma) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/08/opinion/a-new-court-for-terrorism.html ]

Indeed, even the laws themselves are now starting to be kept secret. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/weve-gone-from-nation-of-laws-to-nation.html And it’s about to get a lot worse  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/06/international-treaty-negotiated-in-secret-even-hiding-the-terms-from-congressmen-with-every-reason-to-see-them-threatens-to-destroy-national-sovereignty.html

True – when defendants are afforded a jury trial – they are provided with assistance of counsel. However, the austerity caused by redistribution of wealth to the super-elite http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/the-stunning-truth-about-inequality-in-america.html  is causing severe budget cuts to the courts and the public defenders’ offices nationwide.

Moreover, there are two systems of justice in America … http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/america-is-a-failed-state-with-a-dual-justice-system-one-for-ordinary-people-and-then-one-for-people-with-money-and-enormous-wealth-and-power.html one for the big banks and other fatcats, and one for everyone else.

The government made it official policy not to prosecute fraud, http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/obama-prosecuting-fewer-financial-crimes-than-under-either-bush-presidency.html even though fraud is the main business model adopted by Wall Street. Indeed, the biggest financial crime in world history, the largest insider trading scandal of all time, illegal raiding of customer accounts and blatant financing of drug cartels and terrorists have all been committed recently without any real criminal prosecution or jail time.

On the other hand, government prosecutors are using the legal system to crush dissent  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/government-uses-anti-terror-laws-to-crush-dissent-and-help-big-business.html  and to silence whistleblowers. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/obama-has-prosecuted-more-whistleblowers-than-all-other-presidents-combined.html

And some of the nation’s most powerful judges have lost their independence … and are in bed with the powers-that-be. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/11/does-the-justice-system-actually-dispense-justice-or-does-it-just-serve-the-powers-that-be-like-the-other-branches-of-government.html


SEVENTH AMENDMENT

The 7th Amendment guarantees trial by jury in federal court for civil cases:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
As far as we know, this right is still being respected (that’s three rights still being followed).
However – as noted above – the austerity caused [anarchy] http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/its-not-a-fiscal-cliff-its-the-descent-into-lawless-anarchy.html by redistribution of wealth to the super-elite http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/the-stunning-truth-about-inequality-in-america.html  is causing severe budget cuts to the courts, resulting in the wheels of justice slowing down considerably.

EIGHTH AMENDMENT

The 8th Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Indefinite detention and assassination are obviously cruel and unusual punishment.

The widespread system of torture carried out in the last 10 years – with the help of other countries  http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/cia-renditions-aided-54-countries-014932627.html   violates the 8th Amendment.[Is America still a Nation of Laws?:  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/is-america-still-a-nation-of-laws.html Debating torture: Many want to bring it back … or at least justify its past use. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/debating-torture-is-like-debating-whether-rape-is-good.html

While Justice Scalia disingenuously argues that torture does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment because it is meant to produce information – not punish – he’s wrong. It’s not only cruel and unusual … it is technically a form of terrorism. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/torture-is-a-form-of-terrorism.html

And government whistleblowers are being cruelly and unusually punished with unduly harsh sentences meant to intimidate anyone else from speaking out. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/government-protects-criminals-by-prosecuting-whistleblower-who-expose-wrongdoing.html


NINTH AMENDMENT

The 9th Amendment provides that people have other rights, even if they aren’t specifically listed in the Constitution: 

[[What about Economic and Social Rights?  See  http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/econ/deflation/deflamain.html Are we protected from inflation, deflation and fraud from banking institutions?

Was Thomas Jefferson right when said : "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks (and corporations that will grow up around the banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson, 1802 - Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin]]
[[I added the statements in brackets above. Haz]]

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

We can debate what our inherent rights as human beings are. I believe they include the right to a level playing field, and access to non-toxic food and water. You may disagree.

But everyone agrees that the government should not actively encourage fraud and manipulation. However, the government – through its malignant, symbiotic relation with big corporations – is interfering with our aspirations for economic freedom, safe food and water (instead of arsenic-laden, genetically engineered junk), freedom from undue health hazards such as irradiation due to government support of archaic nuclear power designs, and a level playing field (as opposed to our crony capitalist system in which the little guy has no shot due to redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the super-elite, and government support of white collar criminals).

By working hand-in-glove with giant corporations to defraud us into paying for a lower quality of life, the government is trampling our basic rights as human beings.


TENTH AMENDMENT

The 10th Amendment provides that powers not specifically given to the Federal government are reserved to the states or individual:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Two of the central principles of America’s Founding Fathers are:
(1) The government is created and empowered with the consent of the people
and
(2) Separation of powers

Today, most Americans believe that the government is threatening – rather than protecting – freedom.  We’ve become more afraid of our government than of terrorists, and believe that the government is no longer acting with the “consent of the governed“.

And the federal government is trampling the separation of powers by stepping on the toes of the states and the people. For example, former head S&L prosecutor Bill Black – now a professor of law and economics – notes:

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the resident examiners and regional staff of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [both] competed to weaken federal regulation and aggressively used the preemption doctrine to try to prevent state investigations of and actions against fraudulent mortgage lenders.

Indeed, the federal government is doing everything it can to stick its nose into every aspect of our lives … and act like Big Brother.


CONCLUSION: While a few of the liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights still exist, the vast majority are under heavy assault.


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OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS … AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In addition to the trampling of the Bill of Rights, the government has also trashed the separation of powers enshrined in the main body of the Constitution.

The government is also engaging in activities which the Founding Fathers fought against, such as taxation without representation (here and here), cronyism, deference to central banks, etc.

As the preamble to the Declaration of Independence shows, the American government is still carrying out many of the acts the Founding Fathers found most offensive:

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. [Background]

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. [Background here, here and here]

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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: [Background]

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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences [Background]

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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. [Background]  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/u-s-started-backing-syrian-opposition-years-before-the-uprising-started.html

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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. [Background here, http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/spies-can-now-for-the-first-time-monitor-everything-about-us-and-they-can-do-so-with-a-few-clicks-of-a-mouse-and-to-placate-the-lawyers-a-drop-down-menu-of-justifications.html
 
here  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/daniel-ellsberg-obama-bush-cheney-rumsfeld-and-senators-voting-for-indefinite-detention-are-enemies-of-the-constitution.html  

 and here http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/did-the-department-of-justice-really-say-that-the-government-would-not-assassinate-americans.html]

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