"Senator Joe Lieberman is sponsoring a Bill with Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown called the "Terrorist Expatriation Act" that would strip terrorist suspects on their citizenship. The bill applies to any American that supports a foreign terrorist organization or any organization that is deemed a supporter of terrorism by an ally of the United States. The bill gives the State Department the power to determine who is a terrorist and strip away their citizenship."
Examiner.com
So, for all the Obama supporters that seem to think the state of Arizona is so evil for trying to enforce federal immigration laws, how does this one work for you. Senators Lieberman and Brown would like to have the authority to remove your God given rights from you without your having any recourse to legal protection. Some bureaucrat can simply declare you a supporter of terrorism based on whatever he pleases and suddenly your rights go bye-bye. This turns American law and understanding of our rights and their origins on its head. Rights become subject to the whims of the government instead of standing apart from it. We'll no longer have rights, just privileges.
What's that you say? The President would never go along with this? Kiss the Fifth and Sixth Amendment good bye:
"President Obama’s legal advisers are considering asking Congress to allow the government to detain terrorism suspects longer after their arrests before presenting them to a judge for an initial hearing, according to administration officials familiar with the discussions.
If approved, the idea to delay hearings would be attached to broader legislation to allow interrogators to withhold Miranda warnings from terrorism suspects for lengthy periods, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. proposed last week.
The goal of both measures would be to open a window of time after an arrest in which interrogators could question a terrorism suspect without an interruption that might cause the prisoner to stop talking. It is not clear how long of a delay the administration is considering seeking.
...Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, assailed the Obama administration for considering such ideas. He noted that the administration of President George W. Bush, which was heavily criticized by civil-liberties groups, never proposed such modifications to criminal procedures.
“It’s highly troubling that the Obama administration might propose to lengthen the time in which a potential defendant would come before a judge,” Mr. Romero said. “Both proposals would severely undercut the Obama administration’s assertion that they believe in the rule of law.”
...There is a federal rule of criminal procedure that requires law enforcement officials to take a prisoner to a judge for an initial hearing “without unnecessary delay.” But specialists in criminal law said it would be a fairly simple matter for Congress to pass a statute exempting terrorism cases.
But they said it would be trickier to get around a Supreme Court precedent that governs when people must get initial hearings before a judge in cases in which the police have arrested someone without a warrant. The court has ruled that such prisoners must generally get a hearing within 48 hours to ensure there is probable cause to believe they committed a crime.
...The Obama administration’s consideration of the proposal comes against the backdrop of Republican attacks for its decision to handle some terrorism cases in the criminal justice system instead of declaring the suspects to be “enemy combatants” and holding them in military detention."
New York Times
But we're not just talking about enemy combatants any longer, are we Mr. President? Now we want to abolish the rights of American citizens without a hearing, based on a complaint filed by a government employee. That's just a bit different than someone captured on a battlefield.
Oh, and don't forget; never let a crisis go to waste:
“We now find ourselves in 2010 dealing with very complicated terrorism matters,” Mr. Holder said. “Those are certainly the things that have occupied much of my time. And we think that with regard to that small sliver — only terrorism-related matters, not in any other way, just terrorism cases — that modernizing, clarifying, making more flexible the use of the public safety exception would be something beneficial.”
New York Times
All of this echoes earlier periods in American history; the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson and the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Alien and Sedition Act passed during the administration of John Adams, not to mention Abraham Lincoln and the suspension of Habeas Corpus. We are going to see our rights reduced if not destroyed in the very near future. It's happened before and it will happen again.
Think this through and figure out what your reaction will be. Inform everyone you know. Don't worry about sounding crazy or being laughed at; you will be, it comes with the territory. This information is too important to just disregard. Our country is about to change forever.
This is just the beginning. Guns will be next. After all, why would the government want a well armed and hostile populace at its back.
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