Civil Detainee on the Defense Authorization Act-Martin Armstrong

We want to thank Mr. Martin Armstrong of  Armstong Economics, Forecasting the World, for giving us permission to repost this article found here (pdf file). We consider this one of the best postings on the 2012 National Defense Authorization act.  It includes history,court rulings and even Bible quotations, that  illustrate how lack of forward thinking, emotional knee jerk reactions and apathy are leading us down the road to tyranny.  If we are not already there as our post Michigan replaces democracy with Autocracy leads us to believe. 

Mr. Armstrong understands what it is like to have his rights taken away.  He was held in U.S. prison for over 7 years on a "civil contempt" charge. Note, not a criminal charge, but a civil contempt charge! So to say it can not happen here is a lie. It can and it is!

 Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved December 11th, 2011(added emphasis UNDERLINED  or in red is ours):

The End is Near 

2012 National Defense Authorization Act 

I am almost without words. Anyone who is against this new 2012 National Defense Authorization Act is being called a “traitor” as is the case with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. The provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate last week, will allow the military to arrest terrorist suspects in the United States and detain them indefinitely without trial. But the definition of terrorist is anyone who disagrees with government. It might be safer in prison than out here right now. 

Occupy Goldman Sachs today results in arrests-12-12-2011

Up-date from Zero Hedge via Twitter posts on Occupy wall street forum:  Protesters entered the atrium of the World Financial Centre https://twitter.com/#!/PennyRed/status/146245871087001601 ...a little more than a block away from Goldman's 200 West Street building, and were arrested after police instructed them to leave. A NYPD spokesperson could not confirm the number of arrests yet or the charges, just that arrests have in fact been made. One tweeter for the protesters puts the number at 68...  

Https://twitter.com/#!/MarchDCJan17/status/146252907271041024 ...and the person manning the Twitter account for #OccupyWallStNYC has been arrested...https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallStNYC/status/146262497589071872 ...along with a livestreamer. http://bambuser.com/channel/Roastcauliflower/broadcast/2206210

Occupy wall Street is in full gear today as they go Squidding at Goldman Sachs.The term "Squid" refers to the Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone referring to Goldman as the "Giant Vampire Squid". More more information on Goldman Sachs see our post here: The recovery-A lie to insure bondage to the new Oligarchy and scroll down to the bottom portion i f you do not feel like reading the whole post.

Occupy Wall Street at Goldman Sachs, Crooks and Thieves Protected by Police

By Matthew Russell Lee

BATTERY PARK CITY, December 12 -- As police stood off in front of Goldman Sachs with Occupy Wall Street protesters, ultimately making arrests, the crowd chanted "Crooks and thieves, protected by police."

  A mock press conference was held, in which faux reporters holding Fox News signs asked a woman dressed as a squid about Goldman Sachs' business. Video here, and embedded below.

  When a final question asked about billions of dollars in bonuses Goldman has paid its executive after receiving bail out funds, the squid refused to answer. The crowd chanted, "Calamari." Inner City Press was threatened with arrest by the police.

  

Even before the financial meltdown in 2008, Bronx-based Fair Finance Watch had protested Goldman Sachs applications for regulatory approval, based on Goldmans' support for and securitization of predatory mortgage loans.

  When Goldman wanted a bail out, it was allowed by the Federal Reserve to form a bank on an emergency basis to receive the money, without any public comment.

 

  Inner City Press has asked senior Fed officials about this, only to be told they think that the time to review banks' Community Reinvestment Act record is not during mergers. But that's the only enforcement of the CRA.

#OWS Squid and police at Goldman Sachs Dec 12, 2011 (c) MRLee

U.S. dollars wasted in Iraq by someone who participated

ver the weekend we caught a repeat NPR interview with State Department Employee Peter Van Buren who wrote, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. Which of course, his State Department Employers are none to happy with. Following is a 39 minute radio interview with Mr. Vaan Buren.

You can read an excerpted chapter from the book here.

And an excerpt from a Rolling Stone Interview: