TO BE OR NOT TO BE A TERRORIST

Are born and bred American citizens being held after having all of their rights unceremoniously stripped by the Obama administration? As we debate the weighty questions of the day, we should be thinking what if me or a member of my family were to be, not indicted, but merely suspected of planning a terrorist attack. Do we want to waive all of our rights as citizens, in order to prevent the possibility of someone committing an act of terrorism? This is really what we should be debating.

This scenario is too real to ignore. In fact four men were arraigned in New York city yesterday on charges of plotting to blow up some Jewish synagogues and shoot a plane out of the sky over the Riverdale neighborhood where they reside. Well, according to Obama's new policy they could be charged with hatching a terrorist plot and locked up in an undisclosed location for the next 3, 5 or maybe 10 years on the word of the president and his minions that they "were going to do what they have been charged with and may implement their "dastardly" plot if and when they are released.

This policy would effectively gut a number of laws in one fail swoop. The Miranda law would be a real joke! the constitution itself has embedded within it the very essence of many of the laws used to deal with these kinds of situations in the past, so it too would become a worthless piece of paper, worth less than the piece of paper itself.

As an African living in America I recall all too well what these types of laws were called when I was growing up, they were called lynch laws. The only difference between now and then is that it's no longer called lynching, it's called justifiable homicide. In the course of committing these acts of justifiable homicide by emptying one or more full clips in the bodies of our young men and women the police have become the judge, jury and executioner, in one fail swoop.

I don't know any better way to describe what in essence is a lynch mob, every bit as real as the one described in the story that follows about the "trial" of Mack Charles Parker.

NEXT: IT'S A LOT EASIER TO FIGHT AN UNARMED ENEMY