Conservative and Libertarian Support Moving Gitmo Detainees To Illinois

There is an interesting article posted on the Huffington Post featuring a joint statement from David Keene, founder of American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and former representative and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr, who head a new initiative called the Constitution Project, who advocate closing down the prison at Guantanamo Bay Cube and to moving the facility to Illinois. It is very interesting perspective in light of President Obama’s similar call.

Here is the entire statement from Norquist, Keene and Barr:

As it moves to close Guantanamo and develop policies for handling terrorism suspects going forward, the government should rely upon our established, traditional system of justice. This includes our system of federal prisons, which have repeatedly proven they can safely hold persons convicted of terrorism offenses.

We are confident that the government can preserve national security without resorting to sweeping and radical departures from an American constitutional tradition that has served us effectively for over two centuries.

Civilian federal courts are the proper forum for terrorism cases. Civilian prisons are the safe, cost effective and appropriate venue to hold persons convicted in federal courts. Over the last two decades, federal courts constituted under Article III of the U.S. Constitution have proven capable of trying a wide array of terrorism cases, without sacrificing either national security or fair trial standards.

Likewise the federal prison system has proven itself fully capable of safely holding literally hundreds of convicted terrorists with no threat or danger to the surrounding community.

The scaremongering about these issues should stop.

Using a state of the art but little used prison facility like the one at Thomson, Illinois – with any appropriate security upgrades our law enforcement professionals deem necessary – makes good sense for the tax payers who invested $145 million in the facility and who are seeing millions wasted every month at the costly, inefficient Guantanamo facility. It makes sense for the community which will benefit from the related employment and has absolutely no reason to fear that prisoners will escape or be released into their communities.

But most of all it makes sense for America because it is a critical link in the process of closing Guantanamo and getting this country back to using its tried and true, constitutionally sound institutions.

SIGNATORIES:

Bob Barr, Member of U.S. Congress (R-GA), 1995-2003; CEO, Liberty Strategies, LLC; the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy, the American Conservative Union, 2003- 2008; Chairman, Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances; Practicing Attorney

David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union; Member, Board of Directors, National Rifle Association

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

*Affiliations are listed for identification purposes and do not imply the endorsement of the organizations with which the signatories are affiliated.

Liberal Can’t Get Beyond Left-Right Paradigm

I read an article today, via BlogNetNews, “Why We Can’t and Shouldn’t Send More Troops to Afghanistan,” from the Ohio blogger Stubborn Liberal, calling attention to a clear fact that if Obama sends in additional troops to Afghanistan, levels between 30,000 to 40,000 troops, our country will be without a reserve needed to defend us from another threat.

So while this is very true, the writer has a great opportunity to highlight Obama’s obvious lie committed in contrast to his supporters beliefs, instead the writer takes a swing at Republicans. Stubborn Liberal writes that no matter what Obama does “Republicans will complain” (wah my diapers wet). Yet in the concluding statement, and what can only be called weak dribble, the writer concludes “[t]he President needs to bring everyone home.” Well no kidding.

If people can’t get beyond all of this left verses right democrat verses republican bull crap, we are going to be led further down this road of misery by the single party of oligarchs who inhabit Washington City. It’s all a lie, it’s really one party! Your Obama is looking much like their Bush.

Let me clue you in Stubborn Liberal, there are a lot of people out here, republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and democrats who want the endless war to end! Stop being divisive and start trying to call attention to the issues-to the problems. Stop causing divisiveness. Stop the promoting the left-right paradigm.

Truth Behind American Police Force

I posted two stories about the mysterious circumstances taking place in Hardin Montana and the town’s weird relationship with this company called American Police Force. Thanks to Infowars the story has gotten out into the mainstream media. It looks like it is really starting to unravel.

More Information on American Police Force

Here is another article discussing this private company working behind the scenes in a Montana community, and has connections with the Department of Homeland Security.

This is something we really need watch. While I say this, it is becoming more urgent that we get more support for the 10th Amendment movement.

What Do Leftists Really Smoke?

The comment written on the bag of coffee says, “Obama’s bringing you home! Yay!”

I received this picture from a friend over in Iraq. He thought it was pretty funny how the lefty really thought Obama meant what he said during the campaign. While it was a great gesture, one my friend really appreciated, the simple fact is the person who sent the coffee must be smoking something.

They are all front men now, that’s just the simple fact.

How Serial War Became the American Way of Life

Thanks to the good folks at The Future of Freedom Foundation.

America’s Wars
How Serial War Became the American Way of Life
By David Bromwich

For two centuries, Americans were taught to think war itself an aberration, and “wars” in the plural could only have seemed doubly aberrant. Younger generations of Americans, however, are now being taught to expect no end of war — and no end of wars.

Read the complete article here and think deeply about this issue. This is telling and distressing…and one facet of our post modern, post industrial, or whatever age you want to call us that needs to change.

The `Military Industrial Complex’ Danger: A Presidential Warning

Oath Keeper: Protectors of the Constitution

I heard about this group, Oath Keepers, last week on The Alex Jones Show and I wanted to share this with you. This is a movement of law enforcement and US military who affirm the US Constitution. Here is their formal pronouncement:

OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

As a former soldier, I fully support this and I think you should as well. All peace officers and military take an oath to uphold the US Constitution and need to remember that fact. If you know someone who is a peace officer or military, send the link to Oath Keepers to them and ask them to read the information on the site. This is too important not to.

Washington’s War Cry for Iranian Blood

Pat Buchanan’s final post for February spotlighted the renewed cry for war with Iran. Make no mistake about this, there is a concerted effort among many in Washington, the self-aggrandizing that believe they are above us commoners, to spill young American blood for the further conquest of the Near and Middle East. To be assured, the two main political parties are joined at the hip with this perpetual war policy. (It’s time for a new way, a new party!)

PJB said:

For, unlike Israel, Pakistan and India, none of which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and all of which ran clandestine programs and built atom bombs, Iran signed the NPT and has abided by its Safeguards Agreement. What it refuses to accept are the broader demands of the U.N. Security Council because these go beyond the NPT and sanction Iran for doing what it has a legal right to do.

Moreover, Adm. Dennis Blair, who heads U.S. intelligence, has just restated the consensus of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that Iran does not now possess and is not now pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Bottom line: Neither the United States nor the IAEA has conclusive evidence that Iran either has the fissile material for a bomb or an active program to build a bomb. It has never tested a nuclear device and has never demonstrated a capacity to weaponize a nuclear device, if it had one.

Why, then, the hype, the hysteria, the clamor for “Action This Day!”? It is to divert America from her true national interests and stampede her into embracing as her own the alien agenda of a renascent War Party.

None of this is to suggest the Iranians are saintly souls seeking only peace and progress. Like South Korea, Japan and other nations with nuclear power plants, they may well want the ability to break out of the NPT, should it be necessary to deter, defend against or defeat enemies.

But that is no threat to us to justify war. For decades, we lived under the threat that hundreds of Russian warheads could rain down upon us in hours, ending our national existence. If deterrence worked with Stalin and Mao, it can work with an Iran that has not launched an offensive war against any nation within the memory of any living American.

Can we Americans say the same?

No we can’t; we have misused the tremendous might this country has at it’s right hand. We have wielded our great power for everything other than “defense.”

The call must go out to every citizen to rebuke the Washington insiders march to war. We must demand our congressional representatives exercise their constitutional authority and stop this maddening march to war. Congress decides where, when and if we go to war, not the self-annointed aristocracy, or some Caesar.

U.S. Army To Buy $6 Million Of Riot Equipment

Steve Watson writing at Infowars has an article about the US Army’s plan to buy $6 million of riot gear. I am not really sure this equates to a concerted effort to suppress Americans because $6 million dollars spread over the entire force is not really a lot of money.

However what it tells me is that there are no plans to scale back “nation building” and our forces will continue to engage in police style engagements while being forever mired in peace keeping operations in the middle east, for that matter around the world. Considering the creation of the new Africa Command we can expect our forces will be toppling third world dictators for years to come, especially with Obama as president, so they will need this “police gear.”

With that said, folks should be asking their friends and families in the National Guard if they are receiving new riot control equipment as described in Watson’s article, because if they are, and in large quantities, then this is a good indicator that we may moving in the direction Watson states. The National Guard will be the first military employed for any domestic civil suppression.

But let me be clear, I do know that many in the military defense establishment, both in the government and private sectors, are planning to suppress this country. Watson may not be connecting the dots exactly, but he is seeing the end result clearly.