I warned you about the new suspend-all-of-your-rights-and-liberties label otherwise known as “enemy combatant”.  Using this ingenious retardation of American ideology and abstract violation of our Constitution, “[Jose] Padilla was designated an ‘enemy combatant’ and held for 3 1/2 years without charge by the Bush administration shortly after his May 2002 arrest. He was accused then of plotting to detonate a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ in a major U.S. city.”  Despite being an American citizen, he was held without arraignment, counsel, or rights until being “added as a defendant in the Miami terror support cell case last year amid a legal struggle over President Bush’s authority to hold him indefinitely.”

The government would not charge him.  They would not face him in a court of law to substantiate their accusations and defend their right to violate all of his constitutional liberties and protections (remember, he’s an American citizen).  Now they can’t even present enough evidence to convince a judge that he might be possibly related to the terrorism charges to which he was eventually linked when the Feds realized his illegal and unconstitutional detention on the dirty bomb charges would likely be overturned by a federal judge.

Lacking sufficient evidence to even suggest a terrorism link to the seemingly imaginary dirty bomb plot, our government chose to submerge his case in a different terrorism accusation in Florida.  That “indictment does not mention the ‘dirty bomb’ allegations.”  Apparently there was no way to convince anyone that was true or even a reasonable suspicion.

Randomly thrown into this completely separate case unrelated to his detention and the suspension of his rights as an American, another judge has challenged the government “prosecutors to turn over more evidence to back up allegations that Jose Padilla and two co-defendants conspired to kill, injure or kidnap people overseas as part of a global Islamic terrorist network.”  Unconvinced by the indictment which she called “very light on facts”, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke requested more information because there appeared to be nothing substantial that could link any of the defendants to acts of terrorism or victims thereof.

Assistant U.S. attorney Brian Frazier, when questioned about the victims or intended targets of the hypothetical terrorism plot, said, “What is terrorism but a random act of violence? It means anyone could be a victim at any time.”  The government is apparently saying that they can claim you want to hurt someone somewhere at some unspecified time, and that we must accept this vacuous proclamation as unambiguous and unarguable.  I suppose, as long as they officially tagged you with the “enemy combatant” moniker, this logic dictates we should not argue or question the evidence.

This is the country we live in, poppets.  It is the new world order for America.  If someone says you’re a bad person and a danger to the rest of us, your rights get thrown out the window, the impetus to provide evidence against you is unnecessary in order to hold you indefinitely, lacking the ability to convince anyone you might be guilty of an accusation does not hinder you from subsequently being held on completely unrelated charges which also are unsubstantiated and unconvincing, and it takes but a single label arbitrarily applied by an unseen and unchallenged person for you to become a nameless, faceless enemy “rendered” less than human, less than deserving of the rights to which you as an American can rightfully lay claim, and forever relegated to the extra-constitutional process now in place for this McCarthyist accusation-is-all-you-need system of justice.