Wow. People if you don't know this is going on, please wake up. The mainstream media is generally not talking about this, and I was so surprised to hear this question come up in the debate last night. I have not had a chance to watch the whole thing, but this part of it floored me.
I have been contemplating my choices here. Many Ron Paul supporters say they can't support anyone else in the general election and say they would write-in Paul's name if he isn't the nominee. I strongly believe that we shouldn't just settle for the lesser of two evils and that it's wrong to vote against your conscience; however, I have been trying to rationalize because yes, I would love to get Obama out of the White House. I figure if Ron Paul doesn't win, it's safe to say that Romney will be the nominee based on the polls. I am fighting 100% for Paul to win but also thinking ahead to the general elections and what I would do in case he doesn't. I was starting to possibly consider voting for Romney because, well maybe he isn't that bad. Last night's debate just made this really hard for me.
So, what happened exactly?
Ok, for those of you that don't know, the NDAA is a bill that allows the military, under direction from the President, to detain American citizens indefinitely without a trial on suspicion of terrorism. The 4th Amendment has been effectively destroyed through the Patriot Act, and now the 5th Amendment has effectively been destroyed through the NDAA which was passed from Obama's Hawaiian getaway on New Year's Eve. The media is bashing him for the recess appointments he made (also unconstitutional) but not saying hardly anything about this Constitution-destroying piece of legislation. Jon Stewart is one of the only ones in the mainstream who has made a big deal about this as far as I can tell.
Point of the story - Mitt Romney would be just like Obama. We can't keep letting them use the war on terror as an excuse to take all of our freedoms away! They are destroying America from the inside, and because of that, the terrorists are winning! I can't word it better than Jon Stewart does in the above link, it just kinda makes me sick that he's joking about it, but at least he's getting it out there. Romney justifies his support in a couple ways. One, that it's treason to join al Qaeda - that's arguably true, but even treason is a crime people should all have the right to be tried and hung for, especially American citizens on US soil! We tried and hung Saddam Hussein - what's so hard about capturing criminals and giving them the right (or writ) of habeus corpus (established in 1215 by the Magna Carta I believe - pre-American, pre-Constitution even!) and trying them and then sentencing them instead of assasinating or locking them up forever without any charges or trial?? People, this could be you! This flier was produced by the FBI and Bureau of Justice Assistance to notify members of the community who could possibly be considered a terrorist. Of course as a disclaimer on the flier, it says, "some of the activities, taken individually, could be innocent and must be examined by law enforcement professionals in a larger context to determine whether there is a basis to investigate." Too bad this new law takes away your right to a trial so you're at the mercy of the law enforcement, unprotected by a jury trial of your peers. My writing of this blog (which really is my first amendment right and motivated by a love for my country), combined with purchasing a year-supply (more than seven days to be exact) of food (Mitt just sold out his fellow Mormons!), paying with cash (we try to avoid debt that may come with a credit card), and my husband shaving his beard for a wedding this weekend could lead to him being locked up as a terrorist without trial, for however long the military feels he is a threat!
Another thing Romney says to justify his support is that the people should elect a President they feel is moral enough to not abuse the power this law gives them. These days, I wouldn't trust anybody with that kind of power, let alone the people to be aware enough to elect a person that strong. No offense, Newt, but you aren't exactly the most moral person and you still garner a lot of support from Americans. And I guess Mitt trusts Obama with that power. "In questions of power...let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. The founders went through all this tyranny that we're seeing and constructed a government to protect their posterity from having to be subject to it. They did the work for us, we just have to be diligent in standing for it! Why are people applauding Mitt's answer? Do they not know that he just said, in effect, "Yes, I would like to help destroy the Constitution just as Obama and many people in power before him did." Where do we draw the line?
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