Precious Liberty

Today is Memorial Day. Today we remember countless patriots who died and fought for those freedoms our president tells us we must abandon. . . in the name of "freedom."

It is supposed to be a day to honor the men and woman who died fighting for our freedoms. When in fact, our freedoms have been systematically taken away from us.

Specifically through the Patriot Act.

Actually, most Americans only know of Memorial Day as a day for getting drunk, partying, and BBQ’s.

The fact is, there is no "War on Terror,” it is just smoke and mirrors, leading most Americans to live in fear, not ever realizing that there is a "war" on the U. S. Constitution.

All you hear about in the headlines is about the huge step backwards Arizona took by passing a Draconian Law that targets a minority group “within” the United States.

If you really think about it, the United States of America, really isn't so united.  Similar to common sense, which turns out, isn't so common.

Most Americans are not even aware of the North American Union (NAU) which was established behind our back by the Bush Administration.  Essentially, the NAU dissolves the united states sovereignty. 

Therefore dissolving our borders.

This has a lot to do with why the Federal Government is doing nothing about protecing our borders. We have no borders. We are one union with Canada and Mexico.  It's a smoke and mirrors attempt to cause more separation and division between the people.

United we Stand –Divided we Fall.

After September 11, 2001, we’ve learned that we can take a sucker punch and moved on. We’ve faced far worse threats to our national survival in our history – the Civil War, the War of 1812, World War II to name a few – but we never abandoned our Constitution.

Terror is an emotion. Emotions are part of human nature and cannot be eradicated. A "War on Terror" is therefore a war on humanity. The Bush administration exploited the fear and shock of a nation in the wake of a surprising and dramatic act of violence to whip national fear and paranoia into a constant boil.

Why?

The evidence suggests the whole point has been to seize power and steal.

The New York Times analysis put it in describing the rationale behind the Administration’s violations of the Foreign Intelligence Security Act, pursuant to which it has been secretly spying on the communications of American citizens without judicial warrants:

A single, fiercely debated legal principle lies behind nearly every major initiative in the Bush administration's war on terror, scholars say: the sweeping assertion of the powers of the presidency.

From the government's detention of Americans as "enemy combatants" to the just-disclosed eavesdropping in the United States without court warrants, the administration has relied on an unusually expansive interpretation of the president's authority.

As the Times reports, Bush's claim to absolute executive power has its origins principally in one document:

A Sept. 25, 2001, memorandum [by the Justice Department’s John Yoo] that said no statute passed by Congress "can place any limits on the president's determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing and nature of the response."

The notion that one of the three branches of our Government can claim power unchecked by the other two branches is precisely what the Founders sought, first and foremost, to preclude. And the fear that a U.S. President would attempt to seize power unchecked by the law or by the other branches – was the driving force behind the clear and numerous constitutional limitations placed on Executive power.

It is these very limitations which the Bush Administration is claiming that it has the power to disregard because the need for enhanced national security in time of war vests the President with unchecked power. [read more]

So the one thing you should remember this memorial day –how many of our children died for our freedoms to be taken away?

We are witnessing a creeping coup in the United States, the overthrow of the idea, promulgated by our founders.

"But where says some is the king of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal of Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is." –Thomas Paine

The Bush administration has explicitly denied claiming unlimited executive power under the president’s war powers against civilians and citizens. The president is not your "Commander in Chief" if you do not serve in the armed forces.

On the contrary, he works for you, and he works for your representatives in the Congress.

There is a war on the law, a conscious destruction of the U. S. Constitution. This is not the first time right wing interests have attempted to overthrow the U. S. government.

How quickly people point their crooked finger and call us “conspiracy” theorist, which in fact, this nation was built on conspiracies, and traitors. Let’s not forget the attempt that was thwarted during the FDR administration. Then as now, America’s greatest enemies come from among the ranks of America’s ruling master class.

Bush has enslaved Americans into a psychological reign of "War on Terror" that amounts to a criminal protection racket. Obama on the other hand, continues where Bush left off, and tells us we must be afraid. That is, we are told we must live in terror. [read more]

All this...to protect us from terror. Then, because we feel terrified, we must give up our freedom – freedom to write what we believe without fear of reprisal, freedom of due process and habeas corpus protection, freedom from secret intrusion into our private lives by government.

The United States Congress openly debated whether the federal government should begin imprisoning journalists who publish stories containing information which the administration wants to conceal. At a House Intelligence Committee hearing, several Republicans expressly urged that our country start throwing reporters in jail.

The criticism focused on articles in The New York Times concerning a National Security Agency surveillance program and, to a lesser extent, on disclosures in The Washington Post about secret C.I.A. prisons overseas.

Some Republicans on the committee advocated the criminal prosecution of The Times. Their comments partly echoed and partly amplified recent statements by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that the Justice Department had the authority to prosecute reporters for publishing classified information. [read more]

"I believe the attorney general and the president should use all of the power of existing law to bring criminal charges," –Rick Renzi, Republican of Arizona.

If there were really a "War on Terror,"  Wes Craven would be hiring a lawyer.  The "War on Terror" is a sham.

The only thing that changed after September 11th, was that we, the people of the United States, forgot how strong we are.

We gave in to fear, when the only thing we should have feared was fear itself. The government wants you to be afraid. There is no Osama bin Laden to fear, and there never has been.

I know I’m not alone when I say, I’m an American and I’m not afraid. I know I’m going to die. I accept that I’m going to die, no problem.

What I do not accept and will not accept is the notion that I must live as a slave to fear for the purposes of craven, cowardly men who, in their time, pissed the bed rather than fight an actual war, later to become powerful and use that power to line their pockets with my tax dollars.

Give me liberty or give me death. Take your "terror" and shove it.

We went after the criminals who attacked us when we invaded Afghanistan, then quickly abandoned any pretense of being concerned with actual terrorists by fighting a ginned-up war of aggression against a tin-pot dictator for whom our chickenshit president and his buddies have always had a hard-on for.  If the U. S. were serious about thwarting terrorism or about minimizing our exposure to acts of violence designed to make us afraid, we would have rigorous port security and massive international goodwill and cooperation in the lawful identification of anarchic, violent networks. But we don’t have that. We have our sons and daughters fighting to maintain bases in the sand near oil fields, sacrificing their lives, bodies and minds for a pack of lies.

Ann Coulter and other right wing totalitarian cheerleaders like to talk about traitors to America. George Bush was the traitor. He betrayed America, the actual laws of America and the very idea of America.

And we have the very sick society of Arizona crying out.  A perfect political springboard for Obama to redeem himself by ordering a presidential repeal of the draconian law.  Also a perfect springboard for his opponents to use against the administration....hellooooo Palin.  

Do you see how the government uses you as pawns? 

On this Memorial Day, as we remember of our sons and daughters who have sacrificed their lives in the blistering sands of Iraq, it does their memory due honor to point this out.

Noble men and women fallen, their blood cries out for lawful justice. In each of our minds lies the beginning of our return to freedom.

Please, repeat after me:   "There is no ‘War on Terror.’"

It’s high time for America and it’s people to remember our strength as one. We need not be divided by petty differences. We need not be afraid. When we surrender to fear, we lose our country, we lose our faith in each other, we lose our future and we lose our freedom.

The best way to honor the sacrifices of our nation’s men and women killed in battle is to embrace, once and for all, that precious liberty. [source]

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