After a while, it gets fairly redundant trying to think of things to write about. Clearly, the pros are very talented. Walter Williams, Krauthammer, George Will, Perry Willis, Jim Babka, and J. Hornberger – those are all brilliant thinkers and writers.
That being written, on the cusp of the 2012 election, what is that you need to get off your chest? Please feel free to write it here. No matter how seemingly trivial or insignificant that you think it is, post it here.
This link is to the running comments posted in response to an article titled, “Ron Paul Disavows…Ron Paul?” written by Thomas Schaller.
I find the smear campaign and online exchange to be utterly fascinating as well as a clear indication that people see an obvious and contemptible effort underway by the government-military-media-industrial complex to discredit Ron Paul as a legitimate candidate supported by a majority of conservative taxpaying Americans.
The House of Representatives is set to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 on Wednesday 12/14/2011.
http://democrats.rules.house.gov/112/text/112_hr1540conf_txt.pdf
Sect. 1022 on page 657 contains the below verbiage which will permit the President to waive (as he/she sees deems necessary to protect the national security interests) a requirement of the Act that states the power of the military to detain a person does not extend to U.S. Citizens.
(4) WAIVER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY.—The
6 President may waive the requirement of paragraph
7 (1) (emphasis added) if the President submits to Congress a certifi-
8 cation in writing that such a waiver is in the na-
9 tional security interests of the United States.
10 (b) APPLICABILITY TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS
11 AND LAWFUL RESIDENT ALIENS.—
12 (1) UNITED STATES CITIZENS.—The require-
13 ment to detain a person in military custody under
14 this section does not extend to citizens of the United
15 States. (emphasis added)
As conservatives, we all put a high premium on National Defense, but I think you would all agree, that we don’t do so at the expense of sacrificing the protection of the Bill of Rights. As United States citizens, we are always supposed to be free from illegal search and seizure from our U.S. government. As United States citizens, we are always supposed to have a right to due process in a U.S. court of law. The Congress cannot arbitrarily change our Constitution and eliminate our Bill of Rights under any circumstances – even in pursuit of a war on terror. Congress cannot let the President and our military violate these citizen rights even in support of well intentioned acts such as trying to protect national security.
Please contact Congressman Wittman’s (or your representative’s) office ASAP and let him/her know that this particular provision MUST be amended so as to not permit the President an opportunity to wage war against and detain us U.S. citizens in violation of our rights to peaceably protest our government via the exercising of free speech and other means afforded to us in the Constitution.
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