Text 10021, 53 rader
Skriven 2009-03-09 13:36:48 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 9981 av JOHN FITZGERALD (1:123/140)
Ärende: STATE OF EMERGENCY
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Replying to a message of JOHN FITZGERALD to BOB ACKLEY:

 JF>>>   I tend to agree, but there have been exceptions that were
 JF>>> justified. ie.Curfews.   Right after 9/11 all airplanes were ordered
 JF>>> down.   One could argue that this violated people's Constitutional
 JF>>> rights.

 BA>>>  Nnt really.  The constitutional right to travel freely    
 BA>>>  doesen't include a specific right to fly to one's destination. 
 BA>>>  It certainly inconvenienced a lot of people,though.

 JF>>   What about curfews?   Are they constitutionally permitted 
 JF>>   during  states of emergency?

 BA>>   The Constitution gives the feds no such power.  AFAIK states 
 BA>>   and localities are perfectly free to enact curfews and other 
 BA>>   similar restrictions.  Omaha has a law on the books that 
 BA>>   makes 'cruising' illegal; 'cruising' is defined as passing 
 BA>>   the same point on a street several times over a very short 
 BA>>   period of time.  

 JF>      What if I want to cruise back and forth from NYC to Boston?
 JF> Just kidding, but it seems the fed can take matters into their own
 JF> hands whenever they please...and it would appear they are capable of
 JF> doing so. FEMA is more than a national 'care package'. I have heard,
 JF> though I can  not confirm, that the institution of FEMA has many
 JF> prison camps across  the country, currently empty, and capable of
 JF> housing many many thousands  of people in one location alone, if the
 JF> occasion should arise.        Apparently they are more than ready to
 JF> suspend the Constitution,  whether it is 'legal' to do so or not.

Those rumors about thus far unoccupied concentration camps have been
around for over a decade.  IMO at least a few do in fact exist.

 JF>    Was it legal for Janet Reno to send tanks into a religious compound
 JF> at Waco?   No, but she did so anyways.

And nobody was ever prosecuted.  Lyin' Bob Ricks on several occasions made
statements to the press that contradicted what he'd told them the previous day
*and nobody ever called him on it.*  At one of his first 'briefings' a reporter
asked him if this was the beginning of an American police state; the reporter
was arrested and briefly jailed for asking the question.

 JF>   Also, doesn't the IRS have its own military force at its disposal?

There are over 100 separate agencies of the US government whose employees
are authorized to carry arms against the American people.  The FDA even has
it's own SWAT team it uses to raid pharmacies and supermarkets.  Those types
of people *LIKE* to put on their body armor, black uniforms, and combat boots
and carry their assault rifles out to terrorize ordinary Americans.

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