"I" am an Unlawful Enemy Combatant, come and get me punks.

[Philosoraptor]

I am a liberal, I hate bush, and I hate the republicans, I am for destroying this regime, utterly, completely, forever, I am against this government in it's current form, I will combat you assholes at every turn, so you may as well come and get my ass right now and send me to Gitmo to be tortured till I die, cause I ain't goin' away jerkoffs.

I am your enemy combatant, fight me here, so you don't have to fight me over there fuckers.

You don't have enough prisons or torture rooms to hold all of us enemy combatants dumb shits.

[malta blue]

1. me too

C'mon you Crawford Coward - come get me....

[grizmaster]

2. I'm an unlawful enemy combatant and proud of it too

It's like at the end of Spartucus when everybody steps forward and says "I'm Spartucus"

[Philosoraptor]

3. Kirk Douglas, meet Tony Curtis

[grizmaster]

5. in a hot tub no less

and for some of the first gay nooky ever filmed for a major Hollywood pic (even if the lusty bits got left out of the final cut).

[Brundle_Fly]

27. wasn't Tony

wearing a watch in that scene as well...

[vickitulsa]

4. I'm disabled and no longer young,

but they'll have to come get me too to stop me talking about how I feel about them, the cowardly pricks!

I can't fight them with my hands, but I can and do fight them with my mouth -- and I don't plan to stop!

They're disgusting and spineless at their core, and they're destroying my beloved nation and making the whole world hate it and us.

I despise them, I spit on them, and I want them all to pay for the ruination they've already caused.

I won't shut up.

There ARE too many of us for them to lock up and torture to death.

Sign me up gang...

[Ryano42]

6. Huuuah!

Over here!

I'm Spartacus! Come get me! :P

Over here! :patriot:

[Xenotime]

7. Knock, Knock!

[Philosoraptor]

9. who's there?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

8. I'll be there beside you ...

loudly and proudly singing ... "We shall overcome ... we shall overcome ..."

Let em try ... there is a slumbering giant that will awaken and devour them.

[havocmom]

11. Here's what I'm singing. Y'all remember this from grade school?

Yankee doodles replaced the words to that old British tune about saving the Queen:

Let me hear you belt it out, DU! And feel free to tweak a line or two if you don't like reference to diety. In fact, FEEL FREE!

1. My country,' tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims' pride,
from every mountainside let freedom ring!

2. My native country, thee,
land of the noble free, thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
thy woods and templed hills;
my heart with rapture thrills, like that above.

3. Let music swell the breeze,
and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song;
let mortal tongues awake;
let all that breathe partake;
let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

4. Our fathers' God, to thee,
author of liberty, to thee we sing;
long may our land be bright
with freedom's holy light;
protect us by thy might, great God, our King.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

13. Even better!!

Always loved that song ... lets dump the last stanza though, since this country belongs to us all.

[havocmom]

15. Yep, needs tweaking

but it's a goodie!

Liberty is my king. They can't take that away. They can take my breath, but I die without submitting to their authority to control what I say and think.

[The Rubicon]

10. Unlawful Combatants

Why LET them come get you? The 2nd Amendment isn't just for freepers you know.

[havocmom]

12. 2nd Amendment wiped off the face of the earth yesterday

If the president says you bad, you vanish. Rights? You don't have no stin-king rights anymore. All ya got is survival at the pleasure of the king.

It boils down to that.

Welcome to DU. Hope we are open for business long enough for ya to get comfortable with us rabble ;)

[The Rubicon]

18. 2nd Amendment

They would still have to physically come and remove you. So why not make that physical act as difficult and dangerous for them as possible?

[havocmom]

19. Already have that covered

Some liberals are not without means

[tkmorris]

37. Oh look! Bait! nt

[Ryano42]

14. Meet my buddy

John Garand. ;)

[newyawker99]

22. Hi The Rubicon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Skidmore]

16. V

[bdamomma]

17. what happens if they label those Democratic Senators as

being outspoken "enemy combatants". Would they try to take them away also?????

[midnight]

20. They have other means to ridding themselves of Senators

that threaten them. They embroil them in swift-boating, and media distortion.

[novalib]

21. FUCK YEAH!!!!

ME, TOO!!!

I'm also an enemy combattant.

I deplore the current regime/cabal of thugs!!

I WANT THEM DESTROYED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!!

THE PEOPLE UNITED CAN -->NEVER<-- BE DEFEATED!!!

[iamahaingttta]

23. No, you're not.

I am a lawful enemy non-combatant.
And, I suspect you are too.
I am a Patriotic American Dissident.
I am an enemy of the current regime, but not an enemy of America.
I do not and will not engage in terror or violence against other Americans.
I suspect this is true of you too.
Yes, the current regime is filled with jerkoffs and dumb shits and assholes and fuckers, and they should be destroyed utterly and completely and forever.
It's up to us to make sure that happens.
At the ballot box, in the courts and in the "media."
But, I am not (and I suspect that you are not) an "Unlawful Enemy Combatant."

Don't let your bluster get the better of you.
Use reason, it's much more becoming of a true philosoraptor.

And yes, I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!

[shadowknows69]

25. Well said and let me add to that

That I/We as Americans have taken our own oaths as citizens and believers in the rule of law that we will defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign or domestic. The difference is I believe the oath I made to myself and Bush lied in front of the world when he took his.

[mongo]

24. Ahem!.....

Those that fight and run away -- live to fight another day.

These aren't exactly good gueralla tactics.

Don't forget -- there was plenty of prison space for the jews. Once they are full, they will just make some more room.

[Nordmadr]

26. Remember, remember the 5th of November...

"...Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you..."

V for Vendetta

[iamahaingttta]

29. Remember, remember, the 7th of November...

You want a revolution?

STOP USING YOUR FUCKING CREDIT CARDS!!!

Stop borrowing their money to buy crap you don't need anyway, and then paying interest on it when you pay it back to them!
Interest is how wealth is created, and most of it goes right to the top.

While you're at it,

STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS!!!

They are evolution's gift to us, and are so much more useful if we don't burn them!

Of course, nobody listens to me. It's just too difficult. Besides, crashing the entire economic system might be a little uncomfortable.

Never mind...

[bulletsandspikes]

28. ATFQN and myself will stand by your side

I'm glad I live in a state with open carry because with a gun on my side they'll think twice about just taking me in.

If they kill me I died fighting and not in some shitty ass prison.

[blues90]

30. I don't have a gun

I don't live in a state where I can carry one but I would if I had one . I too will die fighting , I am not going peacful to some torture camp . Screw these freaks and their dictatorship law , we can make our own laws too .

[Philosoraptor]

31. bring it on punks

[caledesi]

32. If we win the House and Senate, can we do something about

the "tearing up" of the Constitution?

[Dragonbreathp9d]

33. Bring 'em on!

[Philosoraptor]

34. -------------------

[roguevalley]

35. I think I love you, Philosoraptor. :)

[Philosoraptor]

36. Who among us qualifies for Gitmo? We are 'enemies of the state'

[vickitulsa]

38. So glad to see this one still building steam and gaining

professing adherents! Goodonya, Philosoraptor, and all those who are keeping it going. :) :patriot:

I just now read once-friendly Iraqi blogger Zeyad's post for Monday at his Healing Iraq website, and it broke my heart, for his sake AND for all of Iraq's -- and for OURS.

Monday, October 16, 2006
Another close friend of mine has been killed in Baghdad. We had lunch together in Baghdad just days before I left.

I can't concentrate on anything any more. I should not be here in New York running around a stupid neighbourhood, asking people about their 'issues'.

I now officially regret supporting this war back in 2003. The guilt is too much for me to handle.

# posted by Zeyad : 10/16/2006 12:36:00 AM

I added the emphasis, because as someone who's been reading Zeyad's postings ever since he began them in 2003, I know he reluctantly supported the U.S. invasion and then the occupation, though he had grave misgivings the whole time. He has believed that the United States ridding their country of Saddam and offering democracy would eventually bring positive results.

To see him finally state emphatically what he did in that last sentence is a big deal.

As he noted, Zeyad is now in the U.S. -- one of over a million Iraqi refugees displaced either externally (as to Jordan and Syria) and internally (shifted about within Iraq). He, like so many, was finally compelled to flee from his torn nation that's just too dangerous for them to remain.

Zeyad is a (non-practicing) Sunni, lived in a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad as a practicing dentist before the U.S. invasion. He worked sometimes in Basra as well. But his own home and family were in an area of Baghdad that became a "contested zone" soon after the American invasion.

It was in large part due to his support for the U.S. in 2003 and then afterward, even though his doubts and outrage steadily grew, that Zeyad was offered a chance by some Americans to come here and continue studies in journalism at a NYC college. Now he is so frustrated at having left his family in a dangerous area, fearing for their lives, unable to protect them or get them out to safety.

They had accompanied him to Jordan when he began his journey to America, but Jordan's government was going to make them go back to Iraq and may have done so by now.

I just wonder how long it will take an astute, intelligent, observant young man like Zeyad to realize that he is now living in a country which is moving toward totalitarianism? Imagine what he must feel at what he sees and learns here!

When will something very bad happen to him here because of his nationality and mere presence in the U.S., something that will shake him rudely awake to the dangers he faces HERE where he was expecting to be FREE?

When he does recognize the threat here, I suspect he will be one of many immigrants who, if they cannot return to their homeland, draw the line in the sand alongside us Americans who are drawing our own line and refusing to "stand down"! Their line can extend logically out from ours, in fact.

And together, united, the people living in America who do not recognize the present government as legitimate or in any way good for our nation and 99% of those who reside in it CAN and I believe WILL put a STOP to the march toward authoritarian rule here.

What is almost more frightening to me than anything, in terms of a possible outcome of this strife, is that our BEST hope, in the short run at least, may be the prospect of having a shattered, divided country with no clear direction and very uncertain times when the rule of law is either suspended or simply ineffective.

Now that this criminal administration with its delusions of grandeur and global domination has wrecked Iraq (and Afghanistan), will they be allowed to do the same thing to the "homeland" they themselves have told us we must support and defend?


You can read Zeyad's other excellent writings (and comments by his many respondents) at his Healing Iraq website.

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com

I realize that the stand we must take here isn't solely about Iraq, of course. But it's uncanny how much we now have in common with that country, isn't it?

I'm so thankful for DU as a place to vent and organize at this critical juncture we all face in our nation's history. This is the CUSP, folks, and we're ON IT. Again, as Philosoraptor so appropriately noted, our lives do depend on what we decide to do RIGHT NOW.

It's my firm belief that the ONLY thing holding many people back from declaring themselves against this government is the FEAR it has promoted so relentlessly. OUR FEAR WORKS FOR THEM.

But if we can somehow shed that fear, even for a little time so we can think 100% clearly, I believe we'll realize we must not let ourselves be cowed by it, or else we are doomed.

Long may DU survive and thrive, and the same for our sweet land of liberty! Without the liberty, it's just another sad case of the wealthy manipulators of world politics destroying the great promise of a nation before it has a chance to be fulfilled....

:patriot: NO FEAR!! :patriot: