A Quick Read Of Fiction? Or Is It Foretelling RE: NDAA, Works Both Ways

[twyacht]

caught this on American Mercenary.

http://randomthoughtsandguns.blogspot.com/2011/12/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if-there-were-one.html

28 December 2011
Wouldn't it be nice if there were one set of rules that applied equally?

Senator Bacon felt the hood coming off of his head, and a single bare lightbulb, not CFL he noted airily, swung overhead.

The idea that a sitting US Senator would be kidnapped by terrorists was something that they all had to prepare for, but Senator Bacon wasn't prepared for the reality, his bodyguards going down with the muffled flashes of sub-machine guns, the black masked bad guys kicking him down and flex cuffing his hands behind his back.  The hood over his head was the part where he knew that it had to be terrorists.

"Do you know who I am?"  Senator Bacon demanded, sensing a presence behind him.

"Yes, we do."  A cold voice said.  A folder slapped down on the table in front of the Senator and pages of correspondence and photos of meetings with Saudi princes came out.  "You are a terrorism supporter.  There is no use denying it."

But Senator Bacon couldn't NOT deny it, his meetings with a Prince of the house of Saud was purely business! "I met with Prince Saud as part of official business!  I was part of the envoy to Saudi Arabia for the last energy deal!"  The Senator's voice held plenty of righteous indignation.  "What are you? Some sort of fringe homeland group?  Let me go now and I won't press charges."

There was nothing but laughter from multiple voices now.

"So you admit to having correspondence with a known terrorism support, you admit that the correspondence in front of you is actually yours?"  The voice held a hint of bitter humor.

"Of course it is, I was doing my job!  Let me go and I promise you immunity."  Senator Bacon began to feel that something wasn't right.  The desk in front of him was a simple field desk painted olive drab.  The bare light above him was powered by a faint generator noise he heard in the distance.  The room he was in wasn't a room at all, but a field tent.  The sound of helicopters in the distance told him he was close to an airport.

"We can't do that Senator, you've made yourself an enemy of the state and will be held without counsel until we decide what to do with you."  The voice was calm.

"Screw You, I AM the state!" Senator Bacon yelled, angry beyond reason.  "Nothing gets done in this town without my hand in it, NOTHING!"

"No one is above the law" The voice replied.  Silence followed.  Minutes ticked by.

"What do you want?"  Senator Bacon realized that bargaining and anger didn't affect his captors.

"Simply to do the job that you gave us to do."  The voice said.

"What job did I give you to do?"  The Senator asked, bewildered.  He may have known the Prince wasn't entirely a savory character, but that is just the cost of doing business in the Middle East right?  The Senator couldn't recall hiring the services of a terrorist cell or mercenary group to do anything....

Footsteps came slowly around until a man in uniform, three stars on his chest came into the light of the single bulb.

"We are to detain all who are suspected of terrorism and supporting terrorism."  The Lieutenant General smiled a weary smile.  "And you have already admitted to supporting terrorism.  Unfortunately I cannot let you have a phone call or access to a lawyer since it would tip of your terrorist buddies.  The good news is that this is all perfectly legal.  You made it so."

"I demand to see an attorney."  Senator Bacon felt dead calm.

"That is impossible Mr. Bacon."  The 3 Star replied.  "You will be held until we feel we have a case strong enough to go to trial."

"But that could take YEARS!" the Senator wailed.

"It took us years to get Jose Padilla, but we got him."

"But I'm up for re-election in 18 months!"  The senator couldn't imagine what was happening to him.  The law was supposed to PROTECT people from bad guys who wanted to blow them up, not a crooked politician who threw some business to a Saudi Prince who had arranged for several boys to entertain him on his last trip to Riyad...

"You are a terrorist supporter, not a sitting US Senator."  The 3 Star walked back into the shadows behind the former Senator Bacon.

"Stop Tape" The 3 Star said.  "Seriously Ben, what the heck did you think would happen when you turned the military into your personal attack dogs?  I told you it was a bad idea two years ago.  I'll let Melinda and the kids know you are all right but will be incommunicado for a while.  It is the best I can do.  Start Tape"

The 3 Star walked out.  Ben Bacon knew where he was now, in a field outside Fort Lee, in an impromptu detainee camp where thousands of others had already been processed.  Taken into custody and whisked away to Gitmo or some foreign country for interrogation.  Ben Bacon knew for the first time in his life true powerlessness.

The truth of the matter stunned Senator Bacon into silence.  The light went out, and Senator Bacon was thankful for the darkness so he could weep unobserved.  Unobserved save for the IR camera recording his every tear.

[tombogan03884]

I wish .
But if they exempt themselves from Obamacare you can bet your life they will exempt themselves from this .

[fightingquaker13]

Should have been mandatory reading for every jackass who voted for this. Sad thing is, no matter who we elect next year (unless its  Paul) it will never be repealed.
FQ13 who would be half tempted to vote for Paul on this issue alone. Add in ending the Drug War, repealing the Patriot Act, and repealing the Gun Control Act of '68 and I'd send him money if I thought he stood a snow ball's chance. 

[r_w]

I am hoping "Unintended Consequences" is less fiction, but I don't think our ending will be as clean or painless.

[tombogan03884]

I am hoping "Unintended Consequences" is less fiction, but I don't think our ending will be as clean or painless.

"Patriots" is more likely.

[Sponsor]

[twyacht]

Verizon came out 48 hours ago, and said they were going to charge a "convenience fee" of $2...For customers that pay their bill online...

Two Bucks!!!!!

The outrage, uproar, tweets, posts, phone calls, emails, to Verizon HQ, made them rescind the fee. Like mui pronto.....

I guess folks will get pissed and flaming mad, and damn near revolt for two dollars,....but that pesky Constitution and those insignificant Amendments,.?? ah,,,,,screw em'.....

Where's the ACLU on this one? Except Montana, this had better get to the candidates as a direct question......

With this Law, if enforced as written, if parts of the citizenry are targeted as "threatening" by some tweet, blog, posting, the slippery slope has become a free fall., and the Constitution becomes bird cage liner...

But hey,....charge me two dollars..   We'll riot....

Bullsh**...

[Pathfinder]

But hey,....charge me two dollars..   We'll riot....

Bullsh**...

That's why I don't think it matters a tinker's damn who we elect next year - the fix is in, the damage has been actively done since JFK, and damn near irreparable at this point, and the establishment has decided who will and will not be candidates. We are to vote for the "lesser of 2 evils" yet again, pay our taxes for the 51% of this country who will not work like good little serfs, shut up about it, and go back to watching Dancing with the Stars Gun Stories.

[tombogan03884]

That's why I don't think it matters a tinker's damn who we elect next year - the fix is in, the damage has been actively done since JFK, and damn near irreparable at this point, and the establishment has decided who will and will not be candidates. We are to vote for the "lesser of 2 evils" yet again, pay our taxes for the 51% of this country who will not work like good little serfs, shut up about it, and go back to watching Dancing with the Stars Gun Stories.

Long before JFK.
The real decline started with that POS FDR.
Do you notice no one is seriously talking about "gun control"?
That's because they have realized that as long as gun rights themselves are not threatened all the other rights they were intended to protect can be erased with impunity.
You take a sheep and graft on razor sharp claws and big sharp tusks, you still have nothing but a f*cking sheep.

[alfsauve]

[Pathfinder]

Long before JFK.
The real decline started with that POS FDR.
Do you notice no one is seriously talking about "gun control"?
That's because they have realized that as long as gun rights themselves are not threatened all the other rights they were intended to protect can be erased with impunity.
You take a sheep and graft on razor sharp claws and big sharp tusks, you still have nothing but a f*cking sheep.

True.

If you want, you can go all the way back to Adams' Alien and Sedition Act. But that was an anomaly and that makes it different.

Lincoln was a huge violator of the Constitution, and TR did us no favors by allowing the Federal Reserve to come into being. As much as he tried, Wilson was more of a pain than a real threat with his precious League of Nations, although it set the precedent for the UN.

FDR got hammered by the courts over the illegality of what he was doing so badly he tried to expand the SCOTUS to 15 members and stuff it with his own lackeys.

However, it was not until after WWII and then JFK's assassination that the perversion of the process, co-option of the kongress kritters, and the wholesale stampede toward curtailing our rights - "for the children" you know - really took off. IMHO the destruction of this country had to do with military and economic powerhouse we had become after WWII, which interfered with other folks' plans for the world. It's just taken the better part of 70 years to pervert everything to get us to this point.