Entrapment on Black Ice
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Politics
In the beginning they told us 9-11 was an expected but unpredictable eventuality. Then we found that it was preventable but no one tried. Then we were told the only means of preventing a recurrence was to institute national ID cards, traveling papers and a Gestapo.

After people began to SLOWLY wake to the insanity of these measures and their requisite destruction of American Civil Rights, we were told the scale and scope of these measures would be reduced and only known terrorists would be targeted.

When the issue of using FISA came up, we were told that all civilian and joint operations would be run through FISA but purely security related issues would go through a set of secret operations that are only the purview of military intelligence acting under the authority of the commander in chief and that it would never entail criminal prosecution. (except it would first go through FISA then get renamed criminal after the searches, seizures and incarceration had already been an accomplished fact and the fruit of the poison tree was extant)

Then we hear that the new greatest evil is child molestation and we have to suspend the constitution to get pedophiles. No one except a pedophile wants to be associated with a pedophile and, certainly, NO one else would want to defend their crimes. But here lies the sticky margin of the proverbial slippery slope.

If one crime can be singled out for peculiar measures, and then a second more heinous crime can be singled out for peculiar measures, then inertia can begin to drag the whole country into the cesspit of National Socialism or effective oligarchy. One step at a time, it?s dragging us down to a point where people are imprisoned in there own homes just as they were in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

The Postal inspectors were heard on CSPAN telling us that "preemptive searches" had been upheld in court as being constitutional. Now the thing to remember is that the only court with the authority to judge a law, regulation or practice as being constitutional is the Supreme Court of the United States. Whatever court they went to, it hadn't the requisite authority to TELL them they were OK.

The other issue is that a lot of people are telling us, the American people, a lot of things that the American People object to are constitutional. This is the most troubling trend of all. The constitution is the written down (codified) will of the people made into the highest law of the land. This law stands supreme above treaty law, Federal Law, UCMJ, State Law, and County and Municipal Codes, and verbal or written orders of the executive or of a lawful military superior. There is no higher law, except perhaps canon law, governing the lives of American Citizens and any Rights that we have not specifically ceded to the Federal Government or the State government in writing belong to us as individuals and corporately. Another way of saying that is, you have the right to do ANYTHING unless your constitution or state constitution expressly forbids it.

Now, the constitution was framed as a way of protecting the people from the ravages of big government and of organized movements. And it was framed in the common language instead of legalese. The ever expanding US Service Code and the ever expanding body of Executive Orders and departmental regulations are at odds with the purpose and lawful function of the Government.

The People, not their Representatives or their president, are the ultimate arbiters of policy. And when Policy opposes the will of the people it is a crime. Some would argue that the will of the people is in line with the activities of the government today.

"No one likes childmolestors. No one likes a 'terrorist'"

But really the threat of terrorism is not new. It was here in the seventies. In fact in the 1970's communists were constantly hijacking aircraft and going to Havana for coffee. The fact is, the current hysteria over terrorism and over child protection is nothing more than a ploy used to disarm the American People of their greatest weapon for self preservation: conscious will.

By splashing the Media and Internet with a constant flow of propaganda and lies, the government has left the people fearful and feral. In that state, people are willing to accept measures that are insanely beyond the pail of OUR Constitutional WILL.

The founding fathers insisted that the people be able to rise up with weapons and militia, not only to defend the country from invaders and terrorists, but also to defend against the formation of Gestapos and the imposition of taxation without representation (for example British Sales Tax on liquor and cloth).

Fred