Thoughts on Freedom: 220 Later

220 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified, Congress passes the #NDAA bill ‘legalizing’ the indefinite detention of individuals. 

Everything else you have done in the past or will attempt to do in the future has become completely insignificant at this juncture as you have attempted to destroy our guaranteed rights!

The fundamental tenants of the American Constitution have been circumvented and dismissed by your attitude of politics over principle, corruption & complete lack of leadership.

You clearly communicated via your votes over the past week that the opinion of the American People who you are mandated to represent do NOT matter.

You clearly communicated via your votes over the past week that the Constitution on which you took your oath to protect on behalf of the American People is not important when considering your actions.

You have completely dismissed educated opinions of SME's (subject matter experts including the FBI, the engineers of the internet) who have advised you of the dangers, constitutional illegality of the #NDAA & #SOPA as well as #wethepeople you have not listened. You did not even so much as miss a beat with #NDAA.

Clearly the agenda which you drive is not one to protect #wethepeople or the Constitution. 

Your lack of accountability in matters: as #madoff #mfglobal #lightsquared #Solyndra among many other potentially exposing high-level internal corruption, incompetence, illegality, mismanagement, waste fraud and abuse has not been the focus.

Instead your priorities have been focused on prosecuting 6 stolen cows with drones, raw milk from an Amish Family in PA, and a hacker who attempted to deface Gene Simmons website. This is indicative of an agenda which is systemically flawed and misguided.

You have betrayed us, the Constitution and the American public. 

#wethepeople and the #theworldiswatching 

Sincerely, Susan

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Thoughts On Freedom: NDAA

Thoughts On Freedom:  

Been thinking about NDAA all week...

Why the NDAA petrifies me on so many levels.

First a question: Why they are so quick to almost unanimously and without the usual partisan politics pass this bill so quickly? 

Flying it through both House & Senate... 

They haven't even been able to pass a budget for 2 years. 

But they can cross party lines & throw my rights out the window in record time?

Something doesn't smell right....Not in the least.

The detention, denial of due process is so UN-American (full stop) it ignores the fundamental protections (thoughtfully deliberated over MANY revisions, letters etc)

granted by design of the US Constitution & Bill of Rights.

An Example:

  Susan visits <XXXX> City in<XXXX> State

The Police, DHS <insert various agency here>  (violating Posse Comitatus :  (before SOPA gets rid of it here's a primer:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act)

"think" she is <XXXX, with a completely unclear definition of what XXXX is...What is, is?> 

OR may have relationship or association with <XXXX>

  

So they "snatch" her up to assumably PROTECT YOU (see next post for whistleblower rant).

"They" don't allow her to make a phone call, retain counsel etc.

(deny her due process:The Fifth Amendment provides in part that

No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law)

Detain her (Deny Her Habeas Corpus  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus),

for as long as they want, (she never has the opportunity to prove her innocence)

  She is denied due process, and essentially disappears.

There for as long they feel like it... That is barbaric, unjust and Un American. 

Regardless of if you are an American citizen or not. 

(This is what has set us apart on the International level for many years.)

If the suspect is not a US citizen deport to home country. 

On what grounds do we now stand on the international stage when hikers, corporate employees, international aid workers, your college age backpacking kids are snatched and imprisoned, they disappear?
Because they are suspected as "spy's" aka enemy combatants <insert that viscous XXXX here>....you, their parents, employers, NGO's argue for their release. The hikers in (Iran), the aid workers(various countries) were recovered.  

Until now.  

Please tell me, why would the KSA release a US citizen from their detention center when NOW you have detained their SUSPECTED citizen without any rights?

You will deny anyone who enters The US the same? Secret prisons for detention of ANYONE w/ out due process is WRONG!

So next time I travel, if I get picked up, thrown in "detention", potentially tortured (maybe raped, water boarded etc.) bcse I'm "suspect"of being a conscientious objector, spy, blonde, non believer, hiker, wrong religion etc it's OK for them to keep me detained?  Who will fight for me?

They will deny ME due process, a phone call, lawyer etc because that is what happens to their citizens in AMERICA when they come here! I have traveled to many places over the years.  Knowing that if I disappeared The US State Department had a good network and diplomatic relations to ensure I wouldn't just disappear and they would try to get out.

Where is that incentive the next time?

This is a complete atrocity on so many levels! This is not a solution this is a failure of statesmanship and society.

THIS is UN AMERICAN

Thoughts On Freedom: My Poor America

I believed in "you".

 

I fought for "you".

  I gave up everything for "you". 

I gave my heart. My soul.  Risked EVERYTHING, all I had. 

I STOOD firm for "you" when "you" called.

Yet "you" have turned "your" back on me.

More importantly on the collective "We" "The People". 

Where are the Statesman?

Where is "our" Representation?

"Your" actions speak louder than "your" words ever will.

"Your" words are from now on simply just that...

Empty meaningless words.

You have betrayed "me" and "we".

Sincerely, The Invisible Voter "Me"