Do we pray?
Do we wait for the knock on the door?
Do we look away when the neighbor is taken?
Senate Bill 1867. The National Defense Authorization Bill of 2012.
It says that the 'Homeland' aka the United States of America, is part of the battlefield of terror and Americans can be treated as combatants. This bill that makes United States citizens eligible to be enemy combatants, that retires posse comitatus, that hammers a spike through the coffin of our liberty.
Stunned, I watched CSPAN as Senator Rand Paul took the floor and spoke, in tandem with Senator Mark Udall, spoke in vain, to try and pass Udall's amendment to remove the worst elements: those that target Americans.
Indefinite detentions.
Suspicion of anyone with firearms, food stored, 'extreme political views.'
Senator Mark Udall tried to stop this with his amendment. He failed.
On March 11, 1938, Hitler marched into Austria to 'liberate' the 'ethnic Germans' from the Austrians. His Nazi operatives had infiltrated Austria for months prior to the invasion, and immediately afterward, on March 12, 1938, the Nazis began arresting 'enemies of the state.'
How did they know who they were?
20,000 people were arrested in a matter of days.
How did they know who they were?
Because where a small group gathered, where a trio of friends played cards, where a number of women gathered in a park with their children, where neighbors shared a meal, there was always a spy.
We are witnessing the framework. We are seeing the face of this action. It is right here in our towns. Did you know that IBM made it possible for Hitler to account for all of the people murdered in the death camps? IBM was an American company and could not, by American law, do business with the enemy. So what did they do? They formed a German subsidiary.
Everything Hitler did was legal. Yes, the Nazis made the laws and then obeyed them. They did everything legally.
Senate Bill 1867.
You who think that our Homeland needs protecting by mining the border, think again. That border will be used to keep you in. You who think that the enemy is out there, look around you, it is here. You who believe that it is necessary to restrict private property rights, civil rights, liberties, for our own good, watch your back. Because your masters will use you and then take you away. Read your history before they erase it from your electronic books. Hitler purged his own Brown Shirts. Stalin killed his own Revolutionaries. Mao. Pol Pot. Do you think that pretty pastel utopia is for you? It's an illusion. A manipulation. Agenda 21 is a success. The Agenda for the 21st Century. It's speeding up now. You can see it. LOOK.
Senate Bill 1867. The National Defense Authorization Bill of 2011.