Iran shows downed US drone: First video of RQ-170 Sentinel (video)
RT
December 8, 2011
Video courtesy: Press TV
Days after the Pentagon first denied and then admitted that it lost touch with a high-tech drone aircraft, authorities in Iran are now saying that they have the plane — and its condition is pristine.
S.1867: the end of the Constitution and America as we know it – Madison Ruppert of End the Lie on RBN (video)
Madison Ruppert
End the Lie
December 8, 2011
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Does the Indefinite Detention Bill Foretell Future? (video)
by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
December 7, 2011
Camp X-ray in The Land of the Free?
The recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (Senate Bill 1867), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Bill,” should scare the heck out of anyone who loves the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
This bill effectively hands over control to the military to arrest, torture and even kill terrorists on American soil. It also allows the military to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without a trial or due process.
This applies to both non-citizens and citizens of the United States! With this bill, you are not innocent until proven guilty. You are guilty until proven innocent, and you may never get a trial to defend yourself. There is surprisingly little written in the mainstream media about this Senate bill that passed 93 to 7 at the end of November.
Last week, Wired.com posted a compelling article on the “Indefinite Detention” debacle.
It said in part, “So despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial, the Senate bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without the burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end. And because the Senate is using the bill that authorizes funding for the military as its vehicle for this dramatic constitutional claim, it’s pretty likely to pass.
It would be one thing if the military was clamoring for the authority to become the nation’s jailer. But to the contrary: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta opposes the maneuver. So does CIA Director David Petraeus, who usually commands deference from senators in both parties. Pretty much every security official has lined up against the Senate detention provisions, from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to FBI Director Robert Mueller, who worry that they’ll get in the way of FBI investigations of domestic terrorists. President Obama has promised to veto the bill.” (The links in the preceding two paragraphs are impressive and need to be read.) (Click here to read the complete Wired.com post.)
My question is who decides who is a terrorist, and who checks to make sure the charges are valid?
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(hat tip: Activist Post)
Legal for U.S. Govt to Execute Citizens Without Trial Abroad, Coming to U.S. Soil? (video)
Youtube -TYT
December 3, 2011
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks discusses a new part of the Defense Authorization Act that makes it legal for the United States government to detain and in fact execute U.S. citizens abroad.
(hat tip: Activist Post)
‘Strike on Iran will not stop its nuclear program’ (video)
RT
December 9, 2011
On Thursday, US President Barack Obama said he’s “considering all options on Iran”. RT’s Reema Abu Hamdieh talks to former U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley on US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of US-Iran war.
Engineering the Eurozone Collapse – F. William Engdahl on GRTV (video)
Global Research TV
December 8, 2011
The leaders of the EU prepare for a summit this week as the Eurozone continues to spin out of control. But how did the collapse begin, and who will profit from it? Find out more in this week’s GRTV Feature Interview with F. William Engdahl.
Accepting FEMA Camp Prisons for Illegal Immigrants Justifies them for Americans
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
By Eric Blair
Activist Post
December 6, 2011
Illegal immigration is a very emotional subject, especially in the border states that are most affected. Illegal immigrants are easy scapegoats for politicians to pin their failures on for budget problems, the violent ramifications of the drug war, the lack of jobs for Americans, etc.
Hardliners want to arrest and deport all illegals and build a fence to keep them out, while sympathizers seek a path to citizenship. On both sides, politicians use extreme rhetoric to divide the public into their respective camps. The hardliners, who seem to be winning public opinion in areas along the border, attempt to dehumanize illegal immigrants, much like they do with any perceived enemy during war.
This is done because it’s easier for the public to then accept a wide variety of inhumane treatment for this population group. It happened in 1942 when about 110,000 Japanese living in America were brought to internment camps because the attack on Pearl Harbor and war propaganda made them appear dangerous to the public. 62% of those interned were American citizens.
More recently, the American public has accepted vile and inhumane treatment of Muslims like torture, detainment without charges, and even outright murder. This has even happened to several Muslim American citizens with hardly a whisper of complaint from the public as a whole.
In the so-called war on terror, it is now legal to assassinate American citizens, as well as indefinitely detain them without charges on the suspicion of being a terror threat. Even the military is now authorized to patrol the streets of America and make arrests of citizens. None of this would ever have been possible if would-be “terrorists” weren’t incrementally and thoroughly dehumanized in the eyes of the public.
The injustices done by the American government to those “over there” was bound to come to the homeland, because as Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” What happened to treating others as you would want to be treated?
The same principle applies as we learn that illegal immigrants from Mexico, whose only crime is coming to America to work, are being locked up in tent-city prisons that resemble the notorious FEMA detainment camps that are on standby for American citizens should civil unrest intensify. It would seem that if we are willing to accept these inhumane prisons for anyone, then surely anyone will eventually be sent there.
The video below shows Mexican immigrants inhumanely crammed into FEMA Camp-like tent prisons:
Below, Thom Hartmann, one of the only news men to cover this story, points out that the prison reaches 145 degrees Fahrenheit (62.8C) in the summer with little relief from the heat and wonders if the conditions would be the same if corporate criminals were thrown in there:
Mexicans are not less human than Americans; much like Muslims are not less human than Americans. Illegal immigration is a nonviolent crime and this is how they are treated. If the injustices of the war on terror coming home to roost in America is any indication, how could anyone justify this type of prison? It would seem to only enable a future where Americans will be detained in such a manner for nonviolent offenses.
