In reply to “Setting the Trap,” by Andrew P. Napolitano, 12/01/11:

Let the record show that Mr. Napolitano is only partly right when he claims that the last time the government “regularly” used the military against civilians was in 1876.

Shall we quibble over the use of the word “regularly” and forget Kent State or the Bonus March in our national capitol? In point of fact, there have been numerous instances when our government has used the military against citizens. Again, shall we forget Waco?

Spencer Shepherd

In reply to “Setting the Trap,” by Justin Raimondo, 11/30/11:

In addition to the Patriot Act, the NDAA is perhaps the most vile, anti-American legislation that has ever been conceived in the history of this country. Congress has declared war against American citizens.

Every congressman-woman, every Senator has taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

That “oath” has been clearly and categorically violated by every single member of the House and Senate who signed on to this hideous legislation that is straight out of the pernicious laws of Nazi Germany. Senators McCain and Levin have committed treason. I understand why these two traitorous senators tried to keep their Stalinist-Orwellian NDAA anti-American bill secret: I repeat, it is a declaration of war against us, against the citizens of the United States of America .

It certainly is timely — given the OWS protests. Congress has only 8% approval ratings. They see uprisings taking place here and abroad — so what do they do? They write laws that allow them to arrest American citizens as if we were in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. They have made us the enemy. We — the citizens of the United States of America — are now seen as “insurgents” to be arrested at any time, any place, without any constitutional protections whatsoever under this anti-American legislation.

If that isn’t treason, and a categorical abuse of power, I don’t know what is.

Jackie Marcus

In reply to “Showdown at Neocon Central,” by Justin Raimondo, 11/25/11:

The law does not prevent crime and therefore is useless against terrorism.

The American people seem willing to exchange some of their liberty for safety. To prove that, ask the guy standing next to you.

I’m a big Ron Paul fan, but one major terrorist act perpetrated during his presidency will finish him.

That’s the problem. You can complain about our loss of freedom all you want while nothing is happening, but will you continue the diatribe when your neighbors are dying?

Bring the troops home, we can’t afford these wars anymore, but it won’t stop terrorism.

So what do you want to do?

David Zavracky