“What you assert is the power of the military to seize a person in the United States, including an American citizen, on suspicion of being an enemy combatant?” Judge William B. Traxler asked.
“Yes, your honor,” Justice Department lawyer Gregory Garre replied.
In our time, when people are saying we must sacrifice liberty for security, that scrapping the Constitution is necessary to win the “war” against terrorism, I would suggest that you take your choice of genocides in the past 100 years and remind yourself what happens when people buy into the false proposition that the end justifies the means. People who preach that are always more interested in the means than in any end.
The only safe environment for a human being is under a weak government with very restricted powers. Normal people don’t need much to be happy – food, shelter, dignity and freedom from marauders. They need a rule of law that applies to everyone equally and at all times and in all circumstances. In established societies, legislators should meet rarely – perhaps once every two or three years – because a continuing cascade of new laws will eventually drown freedom.
The Founding Fathers, whether through luck, wisdom or divine guidance, gave us an almost perfect form of government, and we’ve been busy ever since trying to take it apart. Human beings are dangerous predators and cannot be trusted with power over their fellows. Many Americans have forgotten that the power of government comes out of the barrel of a gun. Governments coerce; they don’t persuade.
There are people living among us at this very moment capable of the cruelty so evident in the Holocaust. All they are waiting for is the opportunity. No greater opportunity exists than when a government enlists such people and says whatever you do is now justified for the sake of the “greater good.”
This is wrong. Period.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7387629.stm
Regardless of whatever these people were suspected of doing they did not deserve this treatment. Anyone not protected by a badge who did this would not get any benefit of doubt. But the law only applies to people, not to state enforcers.
As usual, William N. Grigg, has cut right to the heart of the matter.
What we see in the video clip above is a phenomenon I’ve named a “Thugswarm.” This isn’t an example of peace officers protecting the public from lawless violence. This is an assault carried out by an armed gang, just as surely as if the assailants had been wearing the colors of the Hell’s Angels. (Come to think of it, didn’t that biker gang insist that the bloodshed at Altamont was no big deal because they were feeling a bit “on edge” owing to the size of the crowd?)
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/05/one-of-these-things-is-just-like-other.html
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