History Shows Illegal Detentions and Dictatorships are Nothing New to America

              I know people are up in arms with the National Defense Authorization Act because it gives the Military jurisdiction to arrest Americans without cause at the discretion of the President. This is nothing new in our history for an out of control President. It is not the first time the Chief Executive abused its powers overreaching beyond what the Constitution authorizes the President to do. In the past what Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and FDR did was so egregious, we must remember from history or we are doomed to repeat it. Obama and Bush were only basing their actions on their predecessors.

              President Abraham Lincoln  was not the honest Abe we learned in schools. He was a tyrant suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus. He jailed many journalist,politicians, state legislators and dissidents in the north using the excuse them being southern sympathizers. This President using the military for law enforcement reason to arrest his political enemies was the act of a dictator. The President defied the Supreme Court's order of the right of Habeas Corpus for people held without charge or reason. Only congress can suspend Habeas Corpus.

              In in the early 20the century, President Woodrow Wilson who signed the Federal Reserve act into law and who used his secretary of state to declare the 16th and 17th Amendments ratified without three fourths of the states concurring. This man pulled us into World War one and jailed many Americans illegally who opposed us being in this war to end all wars. This President was labeled the worst and first fascist commander and chief. I think Lincoln and Wilson are tied for the that designation.

              Then we have FDR who many Democrats and Republicans hail as a great President has a poor record for civil liberties. After Congress declared was on Japan. He had Japanese Americans put into internment camps. He used the US census data to many Japanese Americans without charge which was supposed to be kept secret. They had not right to Habeas Corpus or Due Process under the Constitution. President Reagen apologized to the Japanese Americans saying it was a big mistake. FDR abuse of power should be a lesson for today.

               Even since President Lincoln to now the Barrack Obama. The Executive branch has been usurping powers away from the courts and congress. President George W Bush has used the September 11th event to justify holding American citizens in jail without the right to a lawyer and the right to habeas corpus. This false flag attack was used to create a dictatorship were congress is only ceremonial. President Bush signing the classified PD-5, were congress has no access to the document.The Military Commissions act and the John Warner Defense Authorization Bill gives the executive branch has too much power it can abuse at will to shut down congress as they did threatening Martial law in October 2008 if the bailout to the banks was not passed.

                It is my hope is that Ron Paul be elected President so he can strip all these powers from the executive branch it never had under the Constitution. We should never allow one man the power to declare war and detain people on his own will. This why we have a congress and the courts to keep the president in check. The sad thing is the courts and congress are too much in agreement with the President. This is why we the people will have to restore our republican form of goverment because the servants who we entrusted have failed us. If we do not take back the reins of power. History will repeat itself, and that we cannot afford to see