From the Demented Felon:
The number of people who seem to be nodding their heads when the Administration says "these people were all bad guys, trust us, and no, we're not going to tell you who they are and what evidence we had against them" is both astonishing and depressing. That Americans can go so willingly along with what is clearly tyranny would seem to be a damning indictment of our basic values.
Sending people to a prison beyond the reach of the laws because "we found this old statute that nobody has used since we stripped American citizens of their rights and sent them to concentration camps, so shut up" is pretty damn horrific.
But this is who we are, now.
If you have the courage, ask yourself these questions: If the Trump Administration can grab a bunch of guys off the street and ship them to a foreign hellhole of a prison without a shred of due process, what prevents them from grabbing you, your friends, your family and doing the same to you?
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The declaration is interesting, if depressing, reading. Also: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. ... He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. ..."
I see that gay barbers with sissors are a threat to national security and you need 100's of militarized police to control them.
Seems failure to allow due process is a serious offense. For US
that is a serious high crime. Who is to be held responsible is
now the question. So I guess later prosecutions will hear
"just following orders".
Eck!
Murrow at the height of the McCarthy Red Scares
.His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind, as between internal and the external threats of Communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it -- and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
Good night, and good luck.
Hear it now...as it were...true now as it was then. Though our media now has precious little substance to compare with the straight from the shoulder gravitas of Murrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvEmkMNYHY
Yes. "Later prosecutions" may be after I'm dead. They are coming for all of us, the immigrants are just first.
"Later" may be too late for me as well. And comming for us is a reality
I try to not think of other than, I will not go quietly!
Like are host said, Told ya so. Now we are in the FAFO zone.
Eck!
We're about to find out who's fa'ing and who will fo. The current fa'ers are emanating a brittle, almost desperate vibe and their opponents are emboldened. If we're going to go with vibes, I'll go with the red state irate town hall/ Tesla takedown as the more accurate measure of where our collective head is at.
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