Yes, I know it’s afternoon. I was up around 10 (slept at a friends house instead of one of the churches), but today I had the luxury of showering and eating breakfast. I took my time. I look almost human!
I have to talk about something serious: I woke today to the disgusting news that President Barack Obama is going to renege on his promise to veto the National Defense Appropriations Act, the incredibly Orwellian bill just passed by the Senate (just shy of unanimously if I’m not mistaken, just a little something for those of you who think a new election would change anything significant in this country), that would enable indefinite detention of American Citizens without charge or trial or right of Haebeus Corpus on any suspicion of terrorist activity or simply being associated with an organization suspected of supporting any entity labeled “terrorist” by ourselves or any of our allies. Please recall that Saudi Arabia is one of our “Allies”. Recall that the London Police Department has declared #Occupy London a terrorist organization, and that Britain is one our allies, and therefor, since I am an organizer for #Occupy, and I publish this weblog, and you are reading it, YOU COULD BE JAILED FOREVER, JUST FOR READING THIS PAGE!!! There would be no judicial oversight, no right of appeal, they would not even have to acknowledge they had you. They could execute you, and dump the body in the ocean from a helicopter as was done by the Pinochet regime in Chile in the ‘70’s to their opponents, and they too, were our allies.
Human Rights Watch has a press release on this matter. Go take a peek.
Tonight, after the Private Danny Chen March at 6 O’clock, which I’m going to, I’m going to introduce a resolution at GA condemning this, but more, calling on #OWS to publicly state that, while we do not endorse candidates or legislation, we will actively oppose Obama’s re-election if he signs this, and that passage of this bill will result in an officially adversarial relationship between #OWS and the Democratic Party.
There are many in the Democratic Party seeking to claim they side with us, or that they support us, or that they understand or sympathize with us. I would like to remind everyone, especially these politicians, that if you voted for this filth, and something like 49 of the Democrats on the hill did, YOU DO NOT support us. YOU ARE WHO WE CAME HERE TO PROTEST. Nothing you do in the future, nothing you have done in the past, will undo the enmity you have sown through voting for this filth. I am also, moving forward, going to seek to drive through a resolution calling on #Occupy Legal, to pursue trademark infringement litigation against any politician who claims to be an advocate or supporter of #OWS while voting for vile poison like this bill.
If it seems to you I’m using to harsh language in using words like “filth” and”vile poison” to describe this sort of legislation, I’d like to draw your attention to this little piece of legislation. I find NO MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE between the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2011 and the Enabling Act of 1933 in Germany. Go read it. It seems so minor, doesn’t it? None of the horror it would unleash seems implicit in it’s language, does it? It never does. Not here, in the Patriot Act or in the NDAA, nor then in the Enabling Act. Neither body of law seems to mandate the establishment of a totalitarian state, yet all do.
This you moment of truth, dear reader. I will publish #OWS’s resolution here as soon as it is published on nycga.net. I will also ask you to link to it, and to propagate that link to the best of you ability, and to pressure every person you know into doing the same, and into making a public pledge to oppose the re-election of every single politician who helped to make it law, regardless of any other actions they may take or may have taken. If you supported this, you opposed all of us. That simple.
Who had the courage to stand against it? Heh! Who do you think? Senator Bernie Sanders. Senator Tom Harkin. Senator Rand Paul (I guess he’s getting some chicken feed from me after all) Senator Thomas Coburn (another Republican - so much for partisanship) Senator Jeff Merkley, Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Mike Lee (and another Republican). Every single other Senator in America Voted for this. Here’s a link to the roll call. Read it. Both of my Senators from New York voted for this. I guess I’m voting for Jimmy McMillan this fall (Why? Because the rent is too damn high!), so-called progressive Senator Sherrod Brown voted for this (I was in on the beginnings of the NetRoots movement. We got you elected, shit head. Never again), and I hope he and every other Senator who accepted money from netroots activists, swearing to fight for our agenda, reads this little post I made during the Dean campaign in 2004: Paybacks are a Bitch. Believe me, as I breath, there will be some serious paybacks if this passes.
