TRUST NO ONE!

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Did you see this 'stuff'?

-Michael J. Panzner

Everywhere and anywhere, those seen as rejecting even a small measure of an America-centric perspective will be labeled undesirables, subversives, and even “enemy combatants,” whether or not evidence supports the assertion.

--Chapter 11, "Social," Financial Armageddon

Although I predicted as much in my 2007 book, even I am shocked and unnerved at how quickly the U.S. is abandoning principles that once defined our nation as "the land of the free and the home of the brave." In "Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection," Naked Capitalism highlights a recent development that should frighten the wits out of any American who is still capable of thinking:

Reader Walter passed along this distressing sighting from Chris Floyd’s blog. American civil liberties were gutted last week, and the media failed to take note of it.

The development? If the president or one of his subordinates declares someone to be an “enemy combatant” (the 21st century version of “enemy of the state”) he is denied any protection of the law. So any trouble-maker (which means anyone) can be whisked away, incarcerated, tortured, “disappeared,” you name it. Floyd’s commentary:

After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president’s fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” They will simply cease to exist as a legal entity. They will have no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever — save whatever modicum of process the government arbitrarily deigns to grant them from time to time, with its ever-shifting tribunals and show trials.

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You may read the full article here Shocked and Unnerved if you dare...

It is unbelievable, to me, that our 'Supreme' Court has decided that the government may, at it's discretion, arrest and hold indefinitely any American citizen 'they' choose simply by calling them a by a name different than 'they' call others... “suspected enemy combatant”? The 'Supreme' Court has just ruled that the administration has the unfettered ability to call any 'Patriot' 'they' choose, for any reason 'they' choose to do so, a “suspected enemy combatant”. Again, quoting from the article [with] "no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever"

*My* question now would be... What makes our 'Supreme' Court so much different than the 'Mullahs' in Iran??? And their 'Supreme' Leader...

In *my* opinion, it is PAST time to be very afraid of what is going on in Washington these days...

Does anyone out there really think 'they' are going to lay out and explain their 'plans' for ANYTHING to the American people?! 'They' are laying the groundwork for something HUGE right now... USNORTHCOM, new detention centers around the country, see text of H.R. 645, our military is powerful enough to contain anything and everything... Apparently including even us...

And now this...

I do not 'mean' to be an 'alarmist'... but when you see all the pieces of the puzzle falling into place what is one to think?

I fear police state, civil war...

I CANNOT imagine an American soldier putting a bullet into the head of an American citizen...

But so much of 'war' today is a video game... drones/robots controlled remotely... And what if... just what if... that 'American citizen' has been 'called' a “suspected enemy combatant”? By someone... by nearly anyone now...

Greg