A lot of people are saying that The Military Commisions Act of 2006 was the death knell of America.
Perhaps.
The United States has been killing America one piece at a time for 230 years.
When George Washington sent troops to put down tax protestors; when Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana; when the Supreme Court unilaterally decided that they would have the final word on what the Constitution means; when Lincoln used war to force the Confederate States back into the United States (and used income taxes, and forced [enslaved] troops to do the fighting); when the Second Amendment was tossed aside for the NFA in 1934; when ....you name it. There are too many to even scratch the surface.
And the pace of these abuses of federal power have been increasing for decades.
Make no mistake: the worst threat America ever faced was the United States. The US won and America lost.
I believe America lost the first time a federal employee or bureaucrat committed a violation and was permitted to live, and continued to hold office. The Constitution and Bill of Rights should have had an enforcement clause.
If we want anything resembling America to exist again, we need to put teeth into our liberty, and have the determination to USE them.
