Into the Dark

It’s been over a year since we’ve seen or heard from Moisè

A year since that night.

Without warning, the Secret Police came and burst through the door with a battering ram, guns drawn, angrily shouting orders for everyone to lie down on the floor. Then, one slightly older man in an impeccably tailored black uniform, stepped in over the remains of the door, then tracked salty mud onto the heirloom rug. He clearly was the one in charge. With controlled intensity, he asked, “Which one of you is Moisè Goldberg?”

Moisè answered, and started to turn to face him.

“Don’t move! Sergeant, take him into custody!”, the man barked.

Father asked, “On what charge?!”

The man in the black uniform shouted, “Silence! Or I’ll have you arrested for obstructing justice!”

They took Moisè away.

Just a week before, Moisè had attended a rally at which a new organization was demonstrating for reforms to the government, such as protecting civil rights, lower taxes, and less government control over our activities and businesses. We had told Moisè not to go, because we had heard members of the party denounce this organization as subversive and a threat to national security, and it seemed like a risk to be there. But Moisè scoffed at our concern, thinking it was nothing but political hyperbole.

We’ve tried calling local and national law enforcement, courts, jails, and elected officials, but they all gave us essentially the same answer, that is, no answer at all about the whereabouts, status, or condition of Moisè. We even tried the newspapers, but they told us that what we asked was very dangerous, and that they were themselves barred from any information. We hired a lawyer, but he too was denied any information at all.

We’d heard rumors of camps to where certain people had been taken, but had no way of knowing if they really existed, much less if Moisè was there.

We don’t even know if Moisè is alive.

Is this a story from Nazi Germany? The Soviet Union?

No. This is a scenario that could easily occur in the United States of America if President Obama signs the “National Defense Authorization Act” (NDAA) that was overwhelmingly passed by the US House of Representatives, and just yesterday overwhelmingly passed by the US Senate.

Under the NDAA, the government would be authorized to arrest and imprison, indefinitely, American citizens on American soil on mere suspicion of terrorist activity or suspicion of having some affiliation with a terrorist organization. Furthermore, under NDAA, no evidence need be produced, no charges need be filed, no hearings need be held, no writ of habeas corpus need be responded to, nor any trial date set indefinitely, all in complete, comprehensive, and egregious violation of every constitutional guarantee of due process.

Under NDAA, any government official could manufacture “suspicion”. Remember just last Summer, Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano publicly and clearly stated that Tea Party activists could be “terrorists”. On this basis alone, someone who attended a Tea Party rally could be arrested and locked up with precisely no recourse and no hope.

Don’t like the Tea Party and don't care if they get arrested? What if a politician decided that OWS, or other organization you might support overtly or passively, was declared 'a potentially a terrorist organization'? This is an even easier fabrication since some people at OWS events have committed violent crimes, including throwing incendiary devices. You were there? You're a terrorist. No? You publicly expressed support of the movement? You’re a terrorist. Good bye!

Obama has indicated he will sign this bill of overt tyranny into law, reversing an earlier threat to veto it.

Please call and write to President Obama and tell him NOT to sign this blatantly unconstitutional, egregious violation of constitutionally protected (supposedly) civil rights.

If he signs it, support organizations and lawyers who will sue against the NDAA in federal courts, maybe even the Supreme Court. Write to newspapers, TV stations, web sites, etc, then vote Obama and all who voted for this, Republican and Democrat, out of office.

Of course, because of doing so, you could in turn be called by a tyrannical government official, a “terrorist”.

This is no joke. Act now!