Ninja Bureaucrats on the Loose | Cato @ Liberty.
This article makes pretty much anyone want to weep at about the same time they want to find someone & punch their lights out.
Under the so-called “Patriot Act,” however, if there’s anything to link you as an actual or potential terrorist, no matter if you’re totally innocent & someone has framed you, the Government can suspend your civil liberties, because they have promised the American people that, unless they do this, there will be another 9/11.
Ben Franklin had it right:
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.”
We have a really great Constitution. But we’ve allowed our government, over the past century, to erode it, & now the erosion is speeding up. Homeland Security lists, as potential right wing terrorists:
- Our returning war vets from Iraq & Afghanistan
- Peaceful tax protestors
- Anyone carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution
- Anyone who “passes along misinformation about proposed/actual healthcare legislation”
- And apparently anyone who disagrees with the current administration.
That means any of those people could be:
- Detained without a warrant,
- Denied the right to know what charges are being brought against them,
- Denied the right to face their accuser(s)
- Denied legal representation,
- Denied that one phone call you’re supposed to get when you’ve been arrested,
- Arrested at any time & any place,
- Taken to a secret location,
- Denied access to a phone to advise their family about what’s happenning,
- Held indefinitely under those conditions,
- Interrogated for as long as their captors desire,
- Denied food & water,
And then, when the charges are dropped, be advised that if they tell anyone, or attempt to sue, that not only will no one believe them, but that they will be re-apprehended with no hope of release.
Does this sound like America to anyone out there?
Hear that sound? That rumbling in the distance? I think it’s 2 things:
- The Founding Fathers are spinning so hard in their graves that it could trigger that East Coast earthquake that would be so devastating
- There is a groundswell of people from all walks of life who are getting really fed up with Federal shenanigans & the erosion of their Constitutional rights.
We have a good Constitution. And a wonderful country. Not perfect – but for anyone who says, “What makes you think the U.S. is so wonderful?” I’d like to point to the sheer number of legal & especially illegal immigrants who come from countries with very strict laws against almost any kind of immigration.
If we’re so evil to those who come here to live, I have one piece of advice: GO HOME & MAKE YOUR OWN COUNTRY BETTER. Otherwise, SHUT UP.
