Comments on: UPDATED: The Despot’s Bag of Tricks

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:04:05 +0000

I went to a gun show in Tulsa today, Saturday, lots of nice people of all races represented and a booth for Ron Paul. The lady manning the booth was kept busy with visitors. He does well at gun shows.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:43:02 +0000

45 years of watching Republican “compassionate conservatives” Welfare Statists battling Democratic “humanitarian interventionists” Warfare Statists have left me quite disgusted with the entire “mainstream”.

I highly recommend Glenn Grennwald’s January 5th post on “Democratic Party Priorities” on how Barack CHENEY Obama has become the enthusiastic destroyer of Civil Liberties and the expander of War Powers:

http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

Sadly, MOST DEMOCRATS COULD CARE LESS. And the Republicans just egg him on.

Diana West writes how the Republicans are basically now following Obama’s foreign policy lead:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0112/west010612.php3

Ironically, I see some merit in her criticism of Paul there as well. Non-interventionism is definitely in America’s interest but I don’t feel it is necessary to give credence to any claims that Islam is very “peaceful”. At the risk of excommunication (from the Ron Paul movement), I feel it is feckless to think that Moslem kooks are ONLY violent because of our foreign policy – and I think Paul undercuts his own support by failing to acknowledge this explicitly (I think he believes too much of some of the extreme anti-Israel authors on Lew Rockwell). Still, Ron Paul is currently the only sensible alternative to the Warfare Inteventionist state – not Romney or Obama or Santorum.

By: Abelard Lindsey

Abelard Lindsey — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:49:07 +0000

I find this bill disturbing as well. Especially since it is totally unnecessary to fight the “War on Terror”(TM). The Geneva Convention allows for detainment of enemy soldiers as POW’s for the duration of the conflict. The only reason why the Bush and Obama administrations don’t like this is because they don’t want to treat the detainees as POW’s and thereby legitimizing the “War on Terror” as a legitimate military conflict (which it should be if the threat is real).

By: George Pal

George Pal — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:15:26 +0000

The Patriot Act. Homeland Security. TSA. New Homeland Security Headquarters. NDAA.

Slowly slowly, cathchy monkey.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:20:29 +0000

EVERYONE…PLEASE Call, Write, or Email your Reps about this situation. Ask just two questions:

1. Where does this power to enact such a process come from?

2. Ask them how soon you should have your “Guest Room(s)” ready to quarter the troops assigned to your district so they may more expediently round-up the miscreants going to Gitmo?

THINK: GOD. Does it really mean: GOLD ORDAINED DOLLARS? Get ready. The paper ones will be your future toilet paper and we’ll become the North Korea of North America lead by a group of Czars appointed by a Divine King of Kings.