The real war on America has not been fought by terrorists who resent our “freedoms.” Unfortunately, we have a track record against nations whose dissidents bloomed in response to our politicians destroying their freedoms and countries. That is in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Libya, for starters.
We have a record of violent wars started often for veiled reasons in order to gain oil, gold, minerals or strategic real estate for U.S. bases—or for regime change, during which we resorted to excessive violence against other nations’ internal politics, backing those outriders who favored our “support.” Those like Kaddafi who did not desire our input were brought down as the CIA imported battalions of unemployed alleged Al-Qaeda members to cement the illegal “revolution.”
But more than that, given the recent, overwhelming approval of the National Defense Authorizations Act (NDAA) by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, this also involved a tagged-on bill that tears up the U.S. Constitution for indefinite military detentions provisions, which include U.S. citizens who can be held without reason or proof, a trial or lawyer. This one act puts American citizens in the same category with the so-called enemy combatants and detainees of Guantanamo. Not that their status is much more legal. They were activists, soldiers for the causes of their nations in conflict with ours. The fact that they didn’t wear uniforms or look like “official soldiers” is a slender legal ploy to deny their rights as “prisoners of war” under the Geneva Conventions.
Also, the larger purpose of the National Defense Authorization Act was to hammer out a budget for defense in the coming year, which ended up as $662 billion, not small change. The indefinite military detentions provision was an add-on, hopefully to be overlooked in the eagerness to order more weapons by Congress, but should have been, in all legal fairness, a separate bill discussed in depth as to its constitutionality and viability on its own merits or negatives. This was a traditional congressional technique at obfuscation, burying smaller pork bills in larger, higher ticket bills. Ergo, we can fairly say that the U.S. Congress itself is at war with America’s people to have done something like this. But this is not new.
