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I was absolutely horrified when I read that Jose Padilla was found guilty on extremely vague conspiracy charges by a jury of his peers, fellow Americans. They found him guilty…all of them, on all charges.

The President and this jury believe that he possesses the power to imprison US citizens without charges, with no opportunity to contest the charges, without fixed or specified limit, indefinitely; simply by saying the magic words…”enemy combatant”.

I guess we should forget about the Supreme Court ruling about whether or not the President has the power to imprison U.S. citizens without charges.

It makes me cringe to think about how far from our pledge of “liberty and justice for all” we have fallen and how the Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the former law of the land are now laid to rest.

Amendment VI

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 defense.

All Denied to Jose Padilla.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Jose Padilla was tortured for 3+ years, why is that not cruel and unusual?

Welcome to the autocracy, once known for its freedoms, now fallen.

America. It is time for us to be very afraid.

Let’s go over a hypothetical story here. Like Dragnet, the religions have been changed to expose the guilty.

Let’s suppose you really support the Israelis, you know, God’s chosen people.

And the reason you are supporting them is because all the world is persecuting them and funding wars against them, they’re almost shoahed out of existence. For years your government has been encouraging you to do so, not to mention, there is an oil pipeline deal that needs to go through. Big money for everyone involved.

So, you travel to the holy land to show support for your brethren and enroll in a Hebrew school to better understand the sacred writings that you both adhere to. You become a proud member of the Yishuv Jewish Brigade and proudly make war with warring warlords that threaten the very existence of their state. You even go so far as to take on a Hebrew name of someone you admire, Adam Pearlman. But your friends just call you Gideon.

While you are there, a couple of multi-story buildings implode on themselves in NYC, and magically with the flimsiest of evidence, all fingers point to the Yishuv Brigade.

Your government, finally fed up with all the deceit and lying, finally fed up with AIPAC controlling the political discourse in the USA, votes to authorize the President to use force to coerce Israel to obey the 60+ UN Resolutions against it.

The Congress whips up a resolution known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force avoiding its responsibility to declare war and the president issues a Presidential Military Order giving himself the power to detain non-citizens suspected of connection to the “Yishuv Brigade terrorist organization”, as enemy combatants.

The attorney general defines an enemy combatant as “any individual who was part of or supported the Yishuv Brigade forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person who committed a belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces.

Meanwhile, you’ve completed your training and you are warring with the warlords in Israel, supporting your friends, (the former friends, now enemy of your government), completely unaware of the goings on in the police state formerly known as America.

By a stroke of the pen, you are an enemy combatant.

Meanwhile, following the attack on the two buildings, the warnings about potential attacks on American targets by the terrorists of the Yishuv Brigade, in all their vaguery, had begun to take its toll. Your government was beginning to be ridiculed in the press and all the color coded rhetoric in the world couldn’t save them.

And some suggested that maybe the sacrifices of our liberty demanded by the acts of the Patriots in Congress were not necessary.

Oh Adam, it’s a bad time to return home to see your mother.

You are stopped at the terminal, a red flag on Adam “Gideon” Pearlman. You are apprehended as a material witness to the two buildings in NYC that collapsed in their own footprint.

The FBI has been surveilling you and two days earlier, you were surfing the internet looking at the

pictures of the two buildings blown up in NYC. You followed a link to a similar building in Chicago where your mother lived and then followed a link to a demolitions company that was at the scene of the implosions. You saw a name you remembered from your rough child hood and followed a link to his shoe company…

…The attorney general interrupts his dinner and goes on national television to proclaim: “From information available to the United States government, I am pleased to announce today a significant step forward in the War on Terrorism. We have captured the known terrorist, Gideon, a high level Yishuv Brigade member, involved in planning future terrorist attacks including blowing up a Chicago high rise with a dirty nookular shoe bomb.”

“Because of close cooperation among the FBI, the CIA, Defense Department and other federal agencies, we were able to thwart this terrorist.”

Granted this information, via a waterboard and another guest of the detention team, was probably suspect and that a rigorous investigation by the FBI had turned up no evidence that you had begun any preparations for an attack on the homeland and little evidence to support the government’s contention that you received significant support from Yishuv Brigade officials.

One official even said that the whole idea that you are a linchpin in a plot to wreak havoc on an American city with a dirty shoe bomb was “blown out of all proportion.”

Nonetheless, a complete history of your troubled youth is paraded on national news and though you are never charged you are accused over and over and over.

The president says you are a bad guy and you should be detained.

You are put up in a fancy brig all to yourself because you are so dangerous. There is an electrical problem and the lights have to stay on 24hrs a day. Concerned that you might see or hear something to hurt your sensibilty you have to wear opaque glasses and earplugs. And they are concerned about your stress and so they force you sit in way to cure your stress condition.

And since you have been deprived of your senses, you somehow endure this for 3-1/2 years.

Finally, the courts say you get to have a trial. You are not fully aware, but you know a jury of your peers would never allow such an egregious act to go unpunished. The government will surely pay for depriving you of your senses and your habeas corpus rights.

Sorry, but that was before we declared war on terror. (I mean passed a resolution authorizing the commander-in-chief to use force against terror.)

There was only hearsay evidence. No Matter. Guilty. Life in prison.

End of story.

That scene just played itself out in America 2007. She has lost her soul.

The time to be very afraid is here.

I just came across another site of interest. A man after my own heart.
And I mean that in the manly way.

The Lang Report is the brainchild of Michael Lang and has a number of insightful articles. He shares my “driving need to confront and comment on a myriad of topics”.

His latest is “The Buffoon in the WhiteHouse”

When evaluating Mr. Bush, it is difficult to believe anything other than:

1) he is totally dishonest and is constitutionally incapable of facing and telling the truth, especially when it conflicts with his agendas

2) he is the ultimate hypocrite because his hypocrisy affects so many lives and sadly causes so many deaths,

3) he IS the moron that he portrays to be (and it’s not an act)

Make sure you stop by his site and sign up for his RSS feed.

Doing my part for the 1st Amendment and publishing news for we the people.

Why don’t you join the fight to impeach both Bush and Cheney? Before it’s too late.