Alright, if you are NOT awake yet America...it is time to AWAKEN! Under the name of Homeland Security (and more attacks on Americans freedoms) we now have more elected officials throwing away the Constitution of the United States of America.
I was talking to my Uncle in Canada on Thursday and he was telling me about what MY US congress was proposing and I had not heard a word about it...not until a friend posted this link:
Freedom Watch. Seems that in secret John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) have passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a sing hearing a new bill that declares that the entire United States of America is a Battlefield for the Military with the Military Detention of AMERICANS! Chris Anders (Legislative Counsel for the ACLU) warns us that the worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday (today) for the beginning of debate.
Anders states that the Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself. People WAKE UP! Your Congressmen need to hear from you. I don't think the “battlefield” should be in my front yard. Who are the "good" guys and who are the "bad"? And more importantly, WHO GETS TO DECIDE?
Ok, we all understand that Americans can be criminals and that they can even be criminals against our very fibers as Americans so our founders defined a class of criminals as "domestic enemies" in the "United States Constitution" for such a thing, but here today and OUR Congress is trying to pass laws that will make ALL American's loose our Constitutional rights! HELLO - anybody out there??? Time to be CONCERNED!!!
"The homeland is part of the battlefield and people can be held without trial whether an American citizen or not." - Sen. Linsey Graham (R- S.C.). Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) declared that the bill is needed because “America is part of the battlefield.”
The senate is to vote on this TODAY and they will define the whole of the United States as a "battlefield" and allow the US Military to arrest American citizens ANYWHERE, without charge or trial!
I am reminded of Hamen and the gallows. What? You don't know who Hamen is? He was an Agagite nobel who lived around the 5th Century BC and was a vizier (a high-ranking political advisor in Muslim government) of the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus or better known as Artaxerxes II (King Xerxes). Hamen was a descendent of Agag, the king of the Amalekites. Ringing any bells yet? Hamen grew to hate the Jews, all Jews and especially he hated Mordecai and he crafted a plan to have his boss, King Xerxes help him rid the planet of Mordecai and all Jews.
King Xerxes was the ruler of a massive Persian empire. Here is the back history. Xerxes holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants. He orders the queen (his wife) Vashti to "appear" at the party to show her beauty before the guests. She refuses. Worried all women will learn from this, the King removes her as queen and has her killed. He then issues a royal decree sent across the empire that men should be the ruler of their households and should speak their own native tongue. He then orders all beautiful young girls to be presented to him, so he can choose a new queen to replace Vashti.
One of these beauties is Esther. She had no parents and was being cared for by her cousin Mordecai (remember from above - the Jew). Esther finds favor in the king's eyes, and is made his new queen through Mordecai's instructions. Esther, of course is also Jewish but she does not reveal this to the King who ADORES her.
Mordecai discovers a plot to assassinate the King. The conspirators are apprehended and hanged, and Mordecai's service to the king is recorded. Now fast-forward to when Xerxes appoints Hamen as his new prime minister. Mordechai, who sits at the palace gates, falls into Haman's disfavor as he refuses to bow down to him. Having found out that Mordechai is Jewish, Haman plans to kill not just Mordechai but all the Jews in the empire. He obtains Xerxes' permission to execute this plan, against payment of ten thousand talents of silver, and he casts lots to choose the date on which to do this—the thirteenth of the month of Adar. On that day, everyone in the empire is free to massacre the Jews and despoil their property.
When Mordechai finds out about the plans he and all Jews mourn and fast. Mordechai informs Esther what has happened and tells her to intercede with Xerxes. She is afraid to break the law and go to the King unsummoned as she remembers what happened to the last queen. To go to the King without a summons would incur the death penalty. Mordechai tells her that she must. She orders Mordechai to have all Jews fast for three days together with her, and on the third day she goes to Xerxes who stretches out his scepter (allowing her to come in) to her which shows that she is not to be punished. She invites him to a feast in the company of Haman. During the feast, she asks them to attend a further feast the next evening. Meanwhile, Haman is again offended by Mordechai and consults with his friends. Now Haman listens to his wife's suggestion, and so he builds a gallows for Mordecai.
That night, Xerxes suffers from insomnia, and when the court records are read to him to help him sleep, he learns of the services rendered by Mordechai in the previous plot against his life. Ahasuerus is told that Mordechai has not received any recognition for saving the king's life. Just then, Haman appears, to ask the King to hang Mordechai, but before he can make this request, King Ahasuerus asks Haman what should be done for the man that the king wishes to honor. Thinking that the man that the king is referring to is himself, Haman says that the man should be dressed in the king's royal robes and led around on the king's royal horse, while a herald calls: "See how the king honours a man he wishes to reward!" To his horror and surprise, the king instructs Haman to do so to Mordechai. After leading Mordechai's parade, he returns in mourning to his wife and friends, who suggest his downfall has begun.
Immediately after, Xerxes and Haman attend Esther's second banquet, at which she reveals that she is Jewish and that Haman is planning to exterminate her people, including her. Overcome by rage, Xerxes leaves the room; meanwhile Haman stays behind and begs Esther for his life, falling upon her in desperation. The king comes back in at this moment and thinks Haman is assaulting the queen; this makes him angrier than before and he orders Haman hanged on the gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordechai. The previous decree against the Jews cannot be annulled, BUT the king allows the Jews to defend themselves during attacks. As a result, on 13 Adar, five hundred attackers and Haman's ten sons are killed in Shushan, followed by a Jewish slaughter of seventy-five thousand Persians, although they took no plunder. Esther sends a letter instituting an annual commemoration of the Jewish people's redemption, in a holiday called Purim (lots). Xerxes remains very powerful and continues reigning, with Mordechai assuming a prominent position in his court. (The whole writing is found in the book of Esther.)
What does this have to do with this new law? These conservative law-makers are like Haman. They are
building "gallows" to deal with law-breakers but those LOOSELY defined laws will become the very laws used against them in the end. I don't want my government "arresting" citizens and not giving them "due process" and having them subject to a military style court. I want the CONSTITUTION for ALL people, FOREIGN and DOMESTIC! This is NOT a liberal or conservative issue - this is a NATIONAL FREEDOM of ALL AMERICAN'S issue!
To the right of this story is a list of links called IMPORTANT LINKS TO REMEMBER. Find your representatives both at the local and national level and SPEAK UP! Let your voice be heard and start ringing the bells and sounding the alarms!
Further reads on the subject:
Arrest McCain and Levin Now
Media's Blackout of the National Defense Authorization Act
Iron Curtain begins Descending onto the USA
