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USA Using Patriot Act Against Its Own Citizens
Wed, 05/06/2009 - 11:15am | posted by Shana Kluck
In August of 2007, several Ron Paul supporters attended a straw poll in Tuscaloosa, AL. One of the supporters carried a home-made sign that said, “Got Habeas Corpus?”. An older gentleman there questioned me about the sign, wanting to know why she was carrying it. As I began to explain the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, he became increasingly angry and beligerant, claiming that those acts were only to be used for military combatants, and that we believed in “aiding and abetting the enemy” if we didn’t agree with those acts. He refused to even listen to the fact that the acts were not limited as he believed and that US citizens were just as vulnerable.
Well, I hate to say, “I told you so”, but if he was here, I’d say, “I told you so.”
The wordings of the current oath of enlistment and oath for commissioned officers are as follows:
(http://www.history.army.mil/faq/oaths.htm)
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
“I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God.” (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
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I my humble opinion, every man and woman who as taken the above oath, has failed to perform their duty. They have not supported and defended the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic. It is high time that our men and women in uniform, who have vowed to defend our Constitution, begin to take their oath seriously.
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