Fidel Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 The following is an interesting analysis of what could... in fact what is likely to happen to people like you and me over the coming years as a result of the Bush admin's latest Military Commissions legislation. This really is f**ked up. These people have to be stopped. Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the "war on terror" Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 17 2006 Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don't believe the government's explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives against the new breed of perceived "enemy propagandists," bloggers, journalists and online activists who dissent against the "war on terror." As Raw Story reports, CENTCOM announced earlier this year that a team of employees would be "[engaging] bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information." So when you're wasting your time arguing the finer points of the collapse of Building 7 or the quagmire in Iraq with someone who seems unable to grasp basic principles, your foe could well be sat behind a plush U.S. government desk in a uniform. CENTCOM is infiltrating blogs and message boards to ensure people, "have the opportunity to read positive stories,"presumably about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on terror really is about protecting Americans. The CENTCOM website features a useful section, "What Extremists Are Saying," which provides a full catalogue and showcases the diatribes of US government agents Abu Musâ??ab al-Zarqawi, Ayman al-Zawahiri and their sympathizers - rhetoric that CENTCOM hopes surfers will seek out in order for them to grasp a true understanding for the necessity of bombing the shit out of another broken backed defenseless country in the name of "freedom." The jaw-dropping hypocrisy of a regime and its military attack arm that has engaged in the most gargantuan of deceit and propaganda purges against the American people then pointing the finger at inquisitive bloggers for "aiding the enemy," is alarming to behold. The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target American citizens for propagating information harmful to the interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v. of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Bush's own strategy document for "winning the war on terror" identifies "conspiracy theorists," meaning anyone who exposes government corruption and lies about major domestic and world events, as "terrorists recruiters," and vows to eliminate their influence in society. In a speech given Monday, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills." Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool. How long before influential online writers, bloggers and journalists like Greg Palast, who was charged with aiding the terrorists when filming "critical U.S. infrastructure," are arbitrarily gunned down on the street like in Russia or the newly "free" Iraq? The Bush administration's media mouthpieces have also been mobilized to stereotype any kind of critical thinking as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy," a recent case in point beingFox News' Bill O'Reilly calling for the FBI to investigate the 9/11 Scholars organization for possible ties to terrorist organizations. Will we witness a "night of the long knives" to silence any and all dissent as the official dictatorship is announced or does the chilling effect of simply threatening to treat bloggers and journalists as terrorists go far enough to intimidate enough people to keep their mouths shut? A combination of this chilling effect and moves to license websites, impose "hate speech" restrictions and kill off the old internet in favor of a government regulated, China-style "Internet 2" are the tools in the arsenal of the neo-fascists who wish to continue their domestic and imperial bloodletting under the mandated consensus of total obedience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 I guess we are in trouble then...oh well, see you in the Guantanimo detention camp... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzz Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 The death of habeas corpus The president [bush] has now succeeded where no one has before._ He's managed to kill the writ of habeas corpus._ Tonight, a special investigation, how that, in turn, kills nothing less than your Bill of Rights. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 The president [bush] has now succeeded where no one has before. No, no Lincoln and FDR did the same long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzz Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 I think the implication is that this president has gone further than Lincoln or Roosevelt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 An exerpt from msnbc: Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President (Ulysses S. Grant) suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At it's worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone â?? US citizen or not â?? an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the founding fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen all under the guise of the War on Terror. Video-WMP Video-QT Jonathan Turley, joined Keith to talk about the law that Senator Feingold said would be seen as "a stain on our nations history." Turley: "People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is for the American system.â??The strange thing is that we have become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. The Congress just gave the President despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing With the Stars. It's otherworldly..People clearly don't realize what a fundamental change it is about who we are as a country. What happened today changed us. And I'm not too sure we're gonna change back anytime soon." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 This worries me because, although I am not a US citizen, every time the US government says "Jump" my government and many others say "How high?". Also, the new MC acts applies to non-US citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzz Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 An exerpt from msnbc:Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President (Ulysses S. Grant) suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At it's worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone â?? US citizen or not â?? an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the founding fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen all under the guise of the War on Terror. Video-WMP Video-QT Jonathan Turley, joined Keith to talk about the law that Senator Feingold said would be seen as "a stain on our nations history." Turley: "People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is for the American system.â??The strange thing is that we have become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. The Congress just gave the President despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing With the Stars. It's otherworldly..People clearly don't realize what a fundamental change it is about who we are as a country. What happened today changed us. And I'm not too sure we're gonna change back anytime soon." Thanks for the post -- I was watching this earlier this evening on TV and wanted to post but couldn't find on WWW. I should point out that Jonathan Turley is a Professor of Constitutional Law at George Washington University in DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Download and watch the MSNBC piece here . Americans on this board often hit back at criticism of their fellow Americans by asking "What can we do?" and asking others for suggestions. My question is, what have Americans done? Why aren't millions of people out protesting on the streets, defending the US constitution and their rights and freedoms? See you all in Gitmo. Your fate is in the hands of your now all powerful "Commander in Chief". USA RIP. Fidel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 I guess we are in trouble then...oh well, see you in the Guantanimo detention camp... Errr, no I think you've got some rights OH, it's us non-Americans that are in the real deep shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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