By Richard D. Fry
Friday Forbes ran an excellent OP/ED calling to task Sen. Lindsey Graham for calling for the declaration of the “Boston Marathon Suspect” as an “enemy combatant” and thereby nullifying his constitutional rights. Yes it’s the application of the “law of war” to a U.S. citizen within the U.S. as contemplated by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
One of our most fundamental principles in this Republic is that of one being “innocent until proven guilty” and another is affording one fundamental unalienable rights to ensure they are not denied Life, Liberty or Property without due process of law. Sen. Graham’s proposed principle is that of “hang them and then give them a fair trial”.
The Forbes article did not mention that the NDAA 2012 has been found unconstitutional by a federal District Court.
The damage to the Republic done by the cowardly Boston Bombing is nowhere close to the danger that Sen. Graham’s heretical proposals and actions pose for the Republic. In essence the NDAA Act calls for the selective application of martial law to citizens at the discretion of the Executive Branch. This is an action only possible by converging the legislative , judicial and executive power of the government on one person, the President. Of this James Madison said:
” The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
The next step has already been declared available. Under the New Republic being established by the globalist Grahamites the Executive has the authority to call for the targeted killing of the “Boston Marathon Suspect”. The Executive did not do this but only because it chose not to do it. The timing simply was not right. Under Graham’s Brave New Republic “We the People” must rely upon the Government’s noblesse oblige not to abuse us rather than the rule of law.
Germany had its “Leader” #Der Führer# and now it appears we will have our Der Ausübend #Executive#.
Senator Lindsey Graham is an apostate of fundamental American principles and one of the most dangerous persons to our Liberty. He and his Gang of Apostates, Senators John McCain, Carl Levin, Kelly Ayotte should be politically sequestered and dealt with for their violations of their oath to protect the Constitution before their cancer spreads further. In the words of Chief Justice John Marshal they have committed “treason to the constitution. ”
Lindsey Graham and his gang are enemies of the Republic.
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