United Liberty – by Travis Thornton
In case you missed it, Senator John McCain took the opportunity this Memorial Day to cross the Turkey-Syria border and hang out with Syrian rebels. These are the same rebels with ties to Al Qaeda. These are the same rebels cutting out and eating the hearts of dead soldiers. According to reports, Senator McCain wanted to go further into combat but was not allowed.
And he calls us wacko-birds.
The consequences of Senator McCain’s calls to intervene in Syria and meddle further in a civil war could be quite grave, as Russia is sending anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian regime. The use of chemical weapons has been reported – although it’s unsure which sideis using them – with more attacks reported over the weekend.
There are further reports that most of our aid to the region is going to “hard-line Islamic jihadists.” In fact, the same day President Obama announced our recognition of the opposition, rebel groups across Syria signed a petition pledging allegiance to the Jihadand asking America by name not to intervene. It’s hard to imagine that twelve years after 9/11, Senator McCain would be calling for US foreign and military aid be given to “the Jihad.”
For more on the consequences of meddling in other countries’ civil wars in general, seemy post here at United Liberty.
Violating NDAA
Interestingly enough, this is the same Senator McCain who championed NDAA 2012, which gives our government the right to indefinitely detain Americans for doing exactly what he did: supporting elements aligned with al-Qaeda. The provision from Section 1021 is as follows:
“Congress affirms that the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) includes the authority for the Armed Forces of the United States to detain a person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.”
We should remember that Senator McCain fought Senator Rand Paul a year later (in December 2012) to keep that language in the law. What’s more, Senator McCain worked to throw out the Lee-Feinstein amendment that would have protected citizens from unlawful detention. The amendment declared:
“An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States, unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention.”
In a December 2012 statement about this Amendment, Senator Paul blamed Senator McCain for killing the amendment:
“The decision by the NDAA conference committee, led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to strip the National Defense Authorization Act of the amendment that protects American citizens against indefinite detention now renders the entire NDAA unconstitutional.”
Paul went on:
“When the government can arrest suspects without a warrant, hold them without trial, deny them access to counsel or admission of bail, we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.”
For more on NDAA 2012, see this video from Reason TV.
So in an interesting twist, by meeting with and lending comfort to Syrian rebels aligned with al Qaeda, Senator McCain is validating their actions, and could be indefinitely detained by the very law he fought to uphold. He can’t have this both ways. Either the law should be altered – I recommend repealing AUMF in its entirety – or he should cease and desist with his activity with the Syrian rebels. Otherwise, we live in a country with one set of laws for the lawmakers, and another for the rest of us.
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/13815-mccain-hangs-out-with-syrian-rebels-violates-ndaa
Yep, when it is anyone else, they get prison time and indefinite detention, but when it is him or another elitist bastard, it doesn’t apply to them. I see how it is. Two sets of laws. These hypocritical, MOTHERF**KING BASTARDS!!! HANG ‘EM ALL!!! EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!!
Then they say, “well, he’s obviously an exception because he’s a politician so it doesn’t apply to him. He’s EXEMPT! Just like that cop in Temple, TX who said that he is “exempt from the law”. WTF is wrong with the people of this country. WAKE THE F**K UP AND START TAKING IT BACK!!! I’m so sick of this tyrannical bullshit!
My gosh NC, sometimes I wish you’d quit pussyfooting around and just let it out and tell us how you feel. (grin) I agree about the double standard. In Chicago a young man was arrested on federal charges for trying to fly to Syria and join the very people John “the Hanoi Songbird” McCain just met with. I would love to see a list of laws that P.O.S. violated. Perhaps it would force Obama to give the North Vietnamese ace from Arizona his SECOND Presidential pardon. Hell has a very special place for human vermin like him.
Yes! May the Trial & EXECUTION of Traitor, John McCain commence!
Giving Aid & Abetting the Enemy is nothing new to this POS. Just wonder how many border jumpers he passed while crossing he’ll snitch out.
Don’t forget McInsane is totally incompetent in combat. It was he who accidentally shot off a missile attached to his aircraft while onboard that aircraft carrier during Vietnam killing 150 and nearly sinking the entire ship. Then when he finally gets his ass airborne and has a mission, he gets shot down by some North Vietcong housewife shooting a 50 year old rifle. Any asshole can get himself shot down, he’s no hero. He lives vicariously through the ghost of his father, the Admiral, always trying to do better, always trying to prove himself. His old man commanded an entire fleet and had a chest full of ribbons, his son crashed his jet and was a prisoner for 7 years eating rice. So when McCain pulls his stupid stunts like visiting Syria and kissing terrorists just take it with a grain of salt. Just recognize who he really is. A military industrial complex bribed Senator who failed in the military and wants to wear daddy’s pants.
Joe in JT : You’re right, but there’s more. POS McCain is no hero : the asshole collaborated fully with his Viet captors and sang like a canary in return for medical treatment of his injuries got while crashing. The grateful bastard then turns round when he gets stateside and says they tortured him. What a fucking liar and coward. The Viets even gave him his own private ward and nurse. They have the full record, video audio and written, of his treachery. He now plays the military hawk to cover up his gutless cowardice and treachery.
I spent a month on the USS Forrestal in 1976.
I slept in the same “berthing area” where so many young men died. We weren’t told about John McCain back then. It was just a horrible tragedy. They played a short video of “the accident” every day on the ship’s CATV, just before they screened “Big, Bad Mama.”
I was just a dumb-ass in those days. It wasn’t really my fault. I was a brainwashed Jarhead.
Maybe the senate is exempt, just like insider trading, regardless, he’s a bottom feeder and he doesn’t care if the world knows. One man’s terrorist is another man’s “freedom fighter”, so onward to syria for freedumb!
This is the guy behind the “iraq liberation act” and “the surge” after all.
Maybe he’ll take a trip to Chechnya next, I hear the neocon disciples of deceit aka “noble liars”, love those freedom fighters from Chechnya, especially if they’re willing to go to Syria…I wonder if Jihadi John would support the same freedom fighters if they went to Boston?
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1)the Chechen extremists feel such a strong kinship with the US-allied insurgents in Syria, that many of them have made the trip to Syria to fight alongside their fellow Jihadis.
2) The Chechen extremists with whom the alleged bombers are allied, have strong allies among the neo-conservatives in the United States:
“[T]he leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled ‘distinguished Americans’ who are its members is a rollcall of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusastically support the ‘war on terror’.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/136305.html
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Hey look everyone, it’s another zionist partisan looking to make a buck off american blood and treasure, cloaking it in apple pie and jingoism. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Next stop for Jihadi John and the Disciples of Deceit? Iran is a threat in 5,4,3,2…
“[We] should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this as in the country from which we derive our origin will have seized the heads of government and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people and make them pay the price. Human nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic and will be alike influenced by the same causes.” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIII, 1782. ME 2:164
“[When] corruption.. has prevailed in those offices [of]… government and [has] so familiarized itself as that men otherwise honest could look on it without horror,… [then we must] be alive to the suppression of this odious practice and… bring to punishment and brand with eternal disgrace every man guilty of it, whatever be his station.” –Thomas Jefferson to W. C. C. Claiborne, 1804.
Back during the 2008 campaign didn’t Bush call McCain to the WH in the middle of his campaign to vote on the “To Big to Fail” bail out of the S&L’s. Right after that meeting Obummer started to get traction in the election. We have the results of that meeting today. I believe Bush told McCain to loose the election at the insistence of the Zionist pigs. Why? you ask?, McCain was 72 and not in good health. Palin, (another Zionist shill) was being hammered by the left and the Jews did not a women in the Presidency if McCain kicked off.
The country is even more under the thumb of the Zionist scum, using the weasel McCain to ready the take over of Syria in their quest for NWO. The last three living presidents are traitors to this country along with their cronies.
If the law applies to one it must apply to all.