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In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, entitled “In
Search of Monsters to Destroy,” John Quincy Adams warned the American
people that if the U.S. government ever became an imperial,
interventionist government, it would inevitably become like a
dictatorial regime.
A good example of how right Adams has proven to be has occurred
during the World Cup matches. The dictatorial nature of the U.S.
government came through loud and clear in the case of Rafael Martinez, a
star soccer player on the Mexican team.
When his team flew on an American airliner to Russia for the World
Cup matches, Martinez wasn’t with them. He had to take a different
carrier. At the match, he wasn’t allowed to drink the same brand of
water as his teammates. At practices, he had to wear a different
uniform. He was disqualified from ever being named the Budweiser Man of
the Match. His daily movements were closely tracked. He was subject to
being placed in different hotels from his teammates. Unlike his
teammates, he had to agree to play without pay.
Why all this unusual treatment?
The U.S. Treasury, that’s why. The U.S. Treasury has placed Martinez
on its drug-war “blacklist,” accusing the soccer star of having
connections to a Mexico drug lord.
When was Martinez tried, and convicted of violating U.S. drug laws?
Never! He has never even been charged with violating U.S. drug laws, at
least not in the traditional sense of a criminal indictment being
returned against him.
No indictment, no due process of law, and no trial. Instead, the
federal bureaucrats at the U.S. Treasury, acting as judge, jury, and
executioner, simply added him to their drug-war “blacklist.” That’s all
those bureaucrats had to do to alter the course of this man’s life.
So, why did Martinez have to fly on a different airline, wear a
different uniform, drink different water, stay at different hotels, be
closely monitored, and agree to play without pay?
Because those Treasury bureaucrats told everyone in the world that if
they had any business relationship with Martinez, the U.S. drug-war
bureaucrats would come after them with extreme viciousness, including
the possibility of criminal charges and economic sanctions.
That was enough to strike deep fear in the hearts and minds of
American companies and sponsors who were involved in the World Cup. U.S.
airliners, Nike, Budweiser, McDonalds, Coca Cola, and others, including
even the Mexican government, ran fearfully for cover, doing everything
they could to avoid any business contact with Martinez. None of them
wanted to experience the horrific wrath of the international dictator
and its army of loyal bureaucrats.
Think about it: U.S. officials are not only punishing a man who has
never been convicted of the crime they say he committed. They are also
threatening to punish anyone who does business with him. That’s
dictatorship 101.
If these federal bureaucrats think that Martinez has committed a
crime, why don’t they charge him and prosecute him? Isn’t that supposed
to be the American way? Under our system of government, isn’t a person
considered innocent until the moment that federal prosecutors prove him
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt before a jury of his peers in a court
of law before an independent judge? Well, Martinez has never been proven
guilty, which means he’s innocent under what our system is supposed to
be all about. Where are the justice, fairness, and morality in
inflicting punishment on an innocent man?
Of course, this isn’t the only instance in which the world’s dictator
punishes innocent people. The federal government, especially the DEA,
prides itself on stealing people’s money, homes, cars, and businesses
without ever charging them with a crime. They call their program “asset
forfeiture.” It entails punishing innocent people by simply typing their
name on their drug-war blacklist and then seizing their property. No
arrest. No indictment. No trial. No appeals. Just call a person
add the person’s name to their drug-war “blacklist,” and that’s
enough for the drug-war bureaucrats to justify stealing people’s
property and appropriating it their own use.
This is not the type of government that our American ancestors
envisioned when they called the federal government into existence with
the Constitution. How long will the American people of today tolerate
this extreme dictatorial conduct?
https://www.fff.org/2018/07/11/u-s-dictatorial-fangs-at-the-world-cup/
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