Podcasts about military commissions act

The black letter law and articles on this topic: Jack Rives’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee (August 2, 2006) as TJAG https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rives_testimony_08_02_06.pdf Declassified memos from military lawyers, including Jack Rives, criticized interrogations techniques https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/politics/militarys-opposition-to-harsh-interrogation-is-outlined.html Military Commissions Act of 2006 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/PL-109-366.pdf Military Commissions Act of 2009 http://www.mc.mil/Portals/0/MCA20Pub20Law200920.pdf UCMJ Article 90 and Article 92 on obeying lawful orders https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/890 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/892 A report on the US Military Commissions by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/ABAMilitaryCommissionsWorkshopFINAL.authcheckdam.pdf Jack Rives is the Executive Director of the American Bar Association https://www.americanbar.org/groups/leadership/aba_officers/rives.html Join the ABA today https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join_and_renew.html Or visit the ABA career board https://jobs.americanbar.org/jobseeker/search/results/

Police State or no Police State, there is no longer a question here at Mic Check Radio.  It's here.  For example from the NYPD: spying on activists and Muslims, Stop & Frisk, DNA database, Retna scans, Commissioner Kelly telling 60 Minutes they can take down a plane with their firepower.  On a National level: Warrantless Wire Taping, PATRIOT Act, NDAA on NYE, Enemy Belligerent Interrogation Detention Prosecution Act of 2010, Military Commissions Act of 2006, HR 347 (Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011) and a brand new NSA facility to store all of the data from our phones/e-mails/texts/tweets/status updates and podcasts.

This week Visibility 9-11 welcomes Constitutional expert Michael Badnarik.  Mr. Badnarik ran for President of the United States in 2004 and was actually arrested when he dared to cross police lines in protest of being excluded from the Presidential debates of 2004.  He also teaches an 8 hour class as an introduction to the Constitution and has written a book about the Constitution titled Good to be King; Foundations of Freedom.  For more information, visit Michael's website at Constitution Preservation.This interview includes a frank discussion about the usurpation's of the Constitution since 9-11 through the USA PATRIOT Act and the Military Commissions Act, George Orwell, and some of Mr. Badnarik's doubts about the official story of 9-11 and his support for a new investigation.  Intermission music by Lynn Ahrens.Ending music by High-C.

Wayne Madsen, of http://waynemadsenreport.com, is a courageous investigative journalist and syndicated columnist whose articles have appeared in publications such as In These Times, The Miami Herald, and the Village Voice. Madsen has appeared on 20/20, 60 Minutes and Nightline. He is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 and the Handbook of Personal Data Protection. He was a former Officer in the US Navy. He writes from Washington, DC-"inside the Beltline". In this interview Madsen speaks about the extensiveness of pedophelia in the church and among politicians. In the Navy he was involved in prosecuting someone but it was covered up. It has been and continues to be an on-going problem for the Republican Party though and there have been many scandals. Now we have Mark Foley misusing his office and soliciting under age pages while hiding behind his cause of lost children. This scandal which includes the Speaker of House and other top Republican Staff officials and Senior Staff members in the Republican Party Scandal is not over and is going to continue into the Office of RNC Chairman and into the White House itself and into some of the offices of top advisors of Pres. Bush.Madsen mentions that there are many "conspiracies" and that, like the US Government gets the Mafia for "conspiracy", we should be able to get the government for "criminal conspiracy", including murder. It is said that the Republicans are in such control that the Democrats in Congress don't even know where the committee meetings are being held and decisions are being made. Madsen cites an example of Democrats making a caucus and the Sargeant of Arms calling police to break up the meeting and threaten to arrest them. The records will show shocking things about how Congress has been eroding our rights rather than protecting them. He points out that the Patriot Act which was pushed through Congress right after 911 is very similar to the Enabling Act invoked in Germany after the Reichstag Fire which was set by the German government and was the beginning of WWII. It takes away our rights as does even more the Military Commissions Act which takes away even our right of habeus corpus which we've had since 1215 under Magna Carta and is as basic a right as there is. Madsen thinks that the present US Government has gone even farther than Hitler in that it invokes the divine right of kings. Bush can declare anyone in world an enemy combatant and call them before a military commission and have them executed like in Nazi Germany. There are attempts to Since the media is so key in creating what people think it is most important that we are using the independent media-- radio, community television, films, podcasting, the Internet, DVD circulation, the underground press, etc. which "we, the people" control and it's difficult for the state to stop. We can educate people until they see that the "US Government has no clothes".

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When George Bush signs the Military Commissions Act, will the US President have the "privilege of kings?"  Conservative scholars are among those saying the new law will violate the Constitution and overturn legal principles that date to the Middle Ages. We hear both sides. Plus, US response to North Korea's announcement of its first nuclear weapon's test, and the latest on the September 11 blame-game between the CIA and the White House.