Upon writing a letter to President Obama regarding his gruesome and
unconstitutional drone policy, I feel it is paramount that I write a
letter to you warning you about what is to come; warning you – that if
you do not take action now – you will not be able to enjoy the life
pleasures you have been acquainted to.
Full letter and links posted below...
I know, from personal experience, that most of you
would rather be out partying, hanging out with friends, watching
television, playing video games, or hanging out with your
girlfriends/boyfriends than paying attention to politics. It is not hard
to see that social appearances top that of actual intelligence and
critical thinking. I understand that society has plagued you with a
considerable amount of pro-government propaganda and demoralizing
content. It is blaringly obvious that you rather have your friends think
you are “cool” than stand out from among the crowd and stick up for
your rights, as well as your morals. Lastly, I understand that not all
of you have fallen ill to the ignorance that has an insurmountable
stranglehold over our society. However, sad as this may be, we are in
the minority. That being said, I don’t mean to paint the matter with a
broad brush, but a majority of our generation are not critical thinkers
and are not the least bit interested in fighting against the
ever-increasing authoritarian state. Therefore, this letter speaks to
the majority as a warning, and it speaks to the minority as a motivator
to furnish new warnings to our generation and as an inspiration to make
us want to take further action.
In school, we have learned of the atrocities performed by the dictators
of the 20th century. We were taught how they conducted random
kidnappings, threw people – who went against the party lines – in
gulags, slaughtered civilians in firing lines, raped children and women,
and made the youth of their nation turn on their own parents by ratting
them out to the “authorities” if they criticized the state. Even more
mind numbing, the youth, at times, were forced to murder the people of
their own townships and their families (Mou’s regime). As a further
matter, without a doubt, we have all been taught that these sorts of
sickening acts of state aggression would never see the light of day in
America; that they would never come to fruition in the “land of the
free.”
What if I told you that the violent acts of state aggression in the 20th
century are, in fact, seeing the light of day in America?
In the 1990s, the United States Marine Corps crafted an urban warfare
training program called “Operation Urban Warrior.” This program’s
purported goals are to train the military for urban combat operations in
which there are large populaces, cultural differences, combat training
in urban environments “against a backdrop of civil unrest”, biological
attacks, and “to support the national military strategy of preparing for
the threats of a new century and a changing enemy.”
Here is the mission statement from the Department of Defense’s Urban Warrior page on their website:
To
support the national military strategy of preparing for the threats of a
new century and a changing enemy. To enhance domestic national
security. To conduct and refine disaster relief and humanitarian
assistance operations for use in the United States and abroad. To
conduct urban combat operations and ready Marines for the likelihood
that battles in the 21st Century will be focused in the world’s rapidly
expanding urban areas.
Here are their mission goals:
Using a sea-based, Navy-Marine Corps team,
provide humanitarian and disaster relief assistance to a large,
metropolitan city, including food, water, shelter and medicine.
Successfully conduct an amphibious landing, helicopter assault and mass
casualty drill in response to an incident involving chemical or
biological weapons, and in coordination with civilian police and fire
departments. Conduct a mid-intensity combat operation in an urban
environment against a backdrop of civil unrest, and restore order.”
Again,
just as the case is with the white paper regarding drone
assassinations, the federal government has not specifically defined who
the “enemy” is. However, you can figure out the said enemy they are
referring to when the following federal documents outline who you should
consider a terrorist or an enemy: The FBI’s Project Megiddo document,
the FBI’s and BJA’s Communities Against Terrorism documents, New
Jersey’s Department of Homeland Securities Terrorism and Awareness
Prevention document, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Hot Spots
of U.S. Terrorism document. Each and everyone one of these – as stated
in my drone letter – classify Americans as the enemy, “domestic
terrorists”, for supporting the Constitution, Ron Paul, liberty, the
Founding Fathers, the Second Amendment, for having goose bumps (no
joke), for being over dressed for the weather, for paying with cash or
credit cards, and for shielding our computer screen while in an Internet
café.
In closing, Operation Urban Warrior drills were conducted in San
Francisco’s East Bay and Chicago in 1998 and 1999. These urban warfare
drills are becoming more prevalent as each year passes by. In January of
2013, the military conducted unannounced urban warfare drills in Miami,
Houston, and a few other locations in cooperation with local
authorities. This is just one example of the growing authoritarian
police state. If the Founders had ever witnessed a military preparing
for civil unrest, which – in accordance to the Constitution – can be
considered a “standing army”, they would have spoken out with great
reproach.
The final examples of the growing authoritarian regime, which we have
all been taught would never come into fruition in the United States,
are: The PATRIOT Act, H.R. 347, the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2013, the drone policy, national disarmament, and the
National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order. Understandably,
these are vast topics which could take volumes to break down and
connect one thing to another, with parallels from the past and present.
However, in order to keep this warning letter short, I will give you a
brief overview of each issue mentioned above.
The PATRIOT Act
The
Patriot Act was signed into law on October 26th, 2001, by President
George W. Bush. The Patriot Act allows for unwarranted searches and
seizures on the basis of suspected terrorism. In addition, it allows for
the unwarranted wiretapping of communications. These actions are in
clear violation of the 4th Amendment. In short, it allows the federal
government to monitor and search any American citizen they want, simply
on a suspicion.
H.R. 347
H.R. 347 is more commonly known as the anti-protest bill. It makes it a
criminal offense to protest on federal building and grounds, despite the
fact that tax payers pay for those public servants and buildings. This,
in all actuality, makes them public grounds. The bill is also
unconstitutional in the sense that it violates your First Amendment
rights.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is military bill
previously signed into law before President Obama. However, on the 31st
of December, 2011, President Obama reauthorized it with Sections 1021
and 1022, contained in the military detentions section. These new
provisions allows for the indefinite detention of any American citizen
for being a “suspected terrorist.” It stops you of your right to due
process, a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, and the Writ of
Habeas Corpus. The lack of these rights under authoritarian regimes is
what leads to people’s unfortunate stays in political prisons and
gulags. As noted earlier, you can be a suspected terrorist for having
goose bumps. This means you are a potential candidate for being
indefinitely detained, among the many other reasons that classify you as
a “suspected terrorist.” It also declares the U.S. as a “battlefield,”
as Senator Lindsey Graham announced. No authoritarian regime in the past
has ever gone so far as to make a legal to kidnap the citizens of their
countries. They just did it.
Drone Policy
I hate to repeat what I said in my last letter, however, it is a must.
With respect to the Administration’s leaked white paper, you and I can
be drone bombed for being classified as an “affiliated terrorist group”
to Al-Qaeda. In regard to the documents mentioned above, Ron Paul
supporters are considered “affiliated terrorist groups.”
National Disarmament
Now, it hasn’t happened yet, but it’s on the verge of happening if we do
not do something. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Massacre, the
gun-grabbing agenda picked up pace. In response to the hysteria
surrounding the shooting, Senator Dianne Feinstein proposed gun
legislation that would virtually ban over 1,000 fire arms and would
require that all firearms, as well as their owner’s information, be
registered in a national database. The dictators of the 20th century
would have loved this idea of registering gun owner’s information in a
national database because it would have, when they dropped the iron
curtain down onto their nations, made their disarmament operations much
easier and much faster.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order
This
is an executive order that was signed by President Obama. It is one of
the largest federal usurpations of power any society has seen. “The new
Executive Order states that the president and his secretaries have the
authority to commandeer all U.S. domestic resources, including food and
water, as well as seize all energy and transportation infrastructure
inside the borders of the United States,” the Huffington Post reported
in an article titled, “Martial Law by Executive Order.” The article went
on to further its description of the power the federal government
granted itself:
“The Government can also forcibly draft U.S. citizens into the military
and force U.S. citizens to fulfill “labor requirements” for the purposes
of “national defense.” There is not even any Congressional oversight
allowed, only briefings.”
In a nutshell, the President can implement instant communism.
Pretty crazy, right?
I urge you to take action. We have hopped on board the train to
despotism and it seems as though it is charging full-speed ahead into
tyranny. I apologize for not being able to provide lengthy examples and
explanations as to why I purport that we are under authoritarian
control, but I hope the examples given did the job.
It is up to us to fight for the liberty we are using quickly. It is time
to put away the video games and focus on learning, on educating
yourself and others, and on understanding the philosophical ends of
liberty. It is time that we show the generation above us – who have been
warning us longer than we’ve been alive, in some respects – that we
will restore the individual and economic freedom which once made this
nation a wonder of the world.
I know that you do not want to live under despots. I would hope that the
issues listed above have frightened you, for that is the only way by
which we can begin to reverse these drastic issues our nation is faced
with.
That being said, we have two choices: Take action and attempt to regain
our freedom or be slaughtered by the authoritarian state.
I am a high school student myself. I am 16 years old and I have
sacrificed the typical things students our age are interested in because
I see our situation for what it is. It is a bone chilling situation,
which can take a sharp downward spiral at any time. Upon noticing, it
motivated me to take action; to stand up against the state. I plead to
you. Stand up against the state, as I and many others have. If we do not
do this, we will be left with no other choice: A revolution in
self-defense. I hate to say it, but that is the severity of the
situation.
For liberty,
Alec Scheer,
Founder of We Are 1776
