The Republicans have forgotten the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which granted reparations for the internment of Japanese American. On February 24, 1983, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians issued a report on Personal Justice Denied which was a condemnation of internment of American citizens. The treatment of American citizens of Japanese heritage cost the United States taxpayer $1.6 Billion dollars being paid out to 82,210 American citizens. With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 we are paving the road of relocation and internment of Americans.
The Personal Justice Denied Report stated, “This policy of exclusion, removal and detention was executed against 120,000 people without individual review, and exclusion was continued virtually without regard for their demonstrated loyalty to the United States. Congress was fully aware of and supported the policy of removal and detention; it sanctioned the exclusion by enacting a statute which made criminal the violation of orders issued pursuant to Executive Order 9066. The United States Supreme Court held the exclusion constitutionally permissible in the context of war, but struck down the incarceration of admittedly loyal American citizens on the ground that it was not based on statutory authority.
All this was done despite the fact that not a single documented act of espionage, sabotage or fifth column activity was committed by an American citizen of Japanese ancestry or by a resident Japanese alien on the West Coast.
The exclusion, removal and detention inflicted tremendous human cost. There was the obvious cost of homes and businesses sold or abandoned under circumstances of great distress, as well as injury to careers and professional advancement. But, most important, there was the loss of liberty and the personal stigma of suspected disloyalty for thousands of people who knew themselves to be devoted to their country's cause and to its ideals but whose repeated protestations of loyalty were discounted…”
Back when Congress actually had a budget-- 2001, it was decreed in the budget that the ten sites on which the detainee camps were set up are to be preserved as historical landmarks: “places like Manzanar, Tule Lake, Heart Mountain, Topaz, Amache, Jerome, and Rohwer will forever stand as reminders that this nation failed in its most sacred duty to protect its citizens against prejudice, greed, and political expediency”.
Somehow those who have taken an oath to protect the Constitution have forgotten their oath. (Maybe this is the reason Congress is having such a hard time with the illegal immigration problem is because they don’t understand the Constitution?) As an American citizen we have the right NOT to have taken from us, “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law and no matter who we are-- the equal protection of the laws of this country.
As an American citizen I have the RIGHT to a fair and public trial conducted in a competent manner, to be present at the trial, to an impartial jury and to be heard in one's own defense. The laws must be written so that a reasonable person can understand what criminal behavior is.
The Constitution makes provision for those who give aid and comfort to the enemy; we don’t need more laws confusing the issue. The Constitution defines treason as specific acts, namely levying War against the United States, or in adhering to our enemies and giving them aid and comfort.
Merriam-Webster defines treason as-- 1: the betrayal of a trust: treachery. 2: the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government. .
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the sponsors of the the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, he actually said on the floor of the Senate, “It is not unfair to make an American citizen account for the fact that they decided to help Al Qaeda to kill us all and hold them as long as it takes to find intelligence about what may be coming next. And when they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’”
Sound like the betrayal of trust. He took an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of American- to hold in trust the Rights of We the People. His statement on the floor of the Senate sounds like treason to me. He, along with every supporter of the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 has openly shown their contempt for the Rights of the American Citizen, their disregard for the Constitution they swore to uphold and their failure in the most sacred duty to protect its citizens against prejudice, greed, and political expediency- no matter who they are or what they have done.
Maybe the driving force for the passage of was driven more by greed than political expediency? Could it be that we have the best politicians money can buy? Have they forgotten why they are serving the American people? The top Republican recipients from groups supporting the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 were: Rep. Eric Cantor VA-7 $99,950, Rep Kay Granger TX-12 $76,950, Rep. Geoff Davis KY-4 $61,600, Rep. Michael Rogers MI-8 $61,600, Rep. David Camp MI-4 $55,469, Rep. Vern Buchanan FL-13 $54,800, Sen. Robert Portman OH, $272,853, Sen. Richard Shelby AL $115,500, Sen. Mark Kirk IL $91,800, Sen. Roy Blunt MO $82,050, Sen. Patrick Toomey PA $80,050, Sen. Richard Burr NC $75,350. For ONE vote they received more money than the average American earns in a year!
On top of this, those who profess family values, and anti-gay policies voted to remove Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice which made it illegal to engage in sodomy. The vote to remove sodomy from military law comes less than a year after the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy for gay soldiers.
Not only are these Republicans wolves dressed as “conservatives” they are pushing the radical social agenda that is destroying America. Under military law sodomy is illegal, just as adultery is illegal, so they had to remove that prohibition against sodomy to push the social agenda of the left.
I am not a supporter of President Obama but there will be those who will blame him and the liberal Democrats for the passage of NDAA 2012 without accepting the fact that only seven (7) Senators voted against this bill and only forty-three (43) Republican Representatives voted against it. Don’t blame the liberal social progressives for this one, blame the “Conservatives”.
The loss of our Constitutional Rights and the moral values of our country have been damaged by the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. If you have not written your Congressman and voiced you outrage you are part of the problem in America and helping to pave the road to relocation and internment of Americans.
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