From: http://www.whitehous...6/sectionV.html
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Strategy for Winning the War on Terror.
To wage the battle of ideas effectively, we must recognize what does and does not give rise to terrorism:The terrorism we confront today springs from:
Subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda.
To wage the battle of ideas effectively, we must recognize what does and does not give rise to terrorism:The terrorism we confront today springs from:
Subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda.
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Defeating terrorism in the long run requires that each of these factors be addressed. Effective democracy provides a counter to each, diminishing the underlying conditions terrorists seek to exploit.
In place of a culture of conspiracy and misinformation, democracy offers freedom of speech, independent media, and the marketplace of ideas, which can expose and discredit falsehoods, prejudices, and dishonest propaganda.
In place of a culture of conspiracy and misinformation, democracy offers freedom of speech, independent media, and the marketplace of ideas, which can expose and discredit falsehoods, prejudices, and dishonest propaganda.
O.K. Let me try to graps this. Terrorists recrcuit more effectively if there are expressed doubts as to White House version of events. This could be construed to mean that anyone who challenges the White House version could be "aiding the enemy."
But we can stop terrorism by a free and open debate, as long as the free speech, the media, and the marketplace of ideas supports the White House version of events? I guess it's considered "free" because we don't have to "buy" it?
Now take the above and compare it to this:
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Subsection 4( (26) of section 950v. of HR 6166 - Crimes triable by military commissions - includes the following definition.
"Any person subject to this chapter who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States, or one of the co-belligerents of the enemy, shall be punished as a military commission under this chapter may direct."
"Any person subject to this chapter who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States, or one of the co-belligerents of the enemy, shall be punished as a military commission under this chapter may direct."
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By Bruce Ackerman, BRUCE ACKERMAN is a professor of law and political science at Yale: The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights
So if you add 2+2, you get the idea that if you don't support the official White House version but instead question there offerings, you are in fact aiding terrorism, which then makes you an "enemy combattant" and subject to punishement by a military tribunal where you cannot expect a trial by peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights. And the President makes the determination of who and who is not an enemy combattant.
The last bastion left is The U.S. Supreme Court. If that fails....
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another....