I’ve been saying this ever since I first heard about the Jose Padilla case a couple of years ago—whatever the Bush administration has done to him, particularly given the fact that he’s only accused of supposedly having *planned* a terrorist act, they are conceivably capable of doing to any other American citizen. To make matters worse, the recent passage through Congress of the Military Commissions Act (which some people believe was intentionally designed as an end-run around the Supreme Court decision in 2004 regarding Padilla’s case stating that Padilla must be charged or set free since he was not arrested on a field of combat or anywhere close to one) only makes this even more possible. The first fact by itself *should* be enough to scare the fertilizer out of most Americans, yet it hasn’t. In fact, by and large, the American people seem to have bought into the fallacy that “the only people who shold be worried are those who have done something wrong” suggesting that anyone who the government detains surely *must* be guilty (so much for presumption of innocence)—a fallacy which Martin Niemoller ("First they came for the Jews...") could put paid to.

Another thing which disturbs me about this case is that according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least one non-Islamic domestic terror plot has been uncovered post-911—yet these have gone virtually unreported in the national media. The SPLC even obtained the draft of a DHS document which made no mention of the risk from potentially violent right-wing terror groups within the US such as white supremacists but only mentioned potentially violent left-wing groups such as animal rights organizations. According to an article in USA Toay which details some of the cases uncovered by the SPLC (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-14-domest ic-terrorism_x.htm), many of the people who were arrested as a result WERE CHARGED AND TRIED. What does it suggest when American citizens without any ties to Islam are charged and tried for having plotted to commit terrorist acts within the US while another American citizen likewise suspected of plotting terror but who does have ties to Islam is labeled an enemy combatant and is kept in prison for years without charge and without trial in violation of his Constitutional rights? What it suggests, quite frankly, is a double standard—as well as the possibility that in the eyes of the Bush administration, the *real* source of Padilla’s alleged crime is not plotting an act of terror but being a Muslim.

The purpose of the consitution is not to ensure democracy but to bring about domestic poltical stability by making sure that political and economic levers of control stays with the ruling elite.

fake president
fake southern accent
wants to torture those vulnerable as if they were the younger siblings he tortured, as if they were the small brown people striving for a better life that vampires like negroponte torture.
so he tortures his younger baby boom brethren.
and the PCP is a big clue-boy george had some of the CIA version of that shit back when he was awol, picking up that fake football coach patois at Klan meetings. PCP shuts off the right and left brain hemispheres, and leaves you running on the lizard brain. Lots of boomers ruined their lives by doing this just once, you see them every day on city streets. i can name you a few. but boy george is the richest punk in the world, and he was born so psychotic, he LIKES what PCP did for him.

The Gestapo isn’t coming to the United States of America.  It is already here.  I’d ask how did we come to this, but I already know.  It was the fervent desire of the Radical Right and religious Right to institute a fascist.

It is time to impeach Mad King George, remove him from office and charge him at The Hague as a war criminal and for crimes against Humanity.

Before the Constitution is COMPLETELY burned as kindling we need to STOP Mad King George and his band of Merrie Fascists and the BEST way to do that is VOTE DEMOCRATIC on November 7!