The Daily Kos is carrying the article Are Pro-NDAA Lawmakers for Military Detention of U.S. Citizens Actually Guilty of “Treason?”.

You don’t need to be a meteorologist to know if it’s raining outside, and you don’t need to be a constitutional scholar to know that permanent wartime powers amounts to the overthrow of the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution.  Treason.

This sounds an awful lot like statements to which I always object “You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand [name your favorite economic inanity].  It just takes common sense.”  Nevertheless, this Daily Kos article is worth thinking about.

The article also says:

Thomas Jefferson said of the jury trial:

“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by  man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its  constitution.”

I also remind you of my oft stated warning, “The above statement does not derive its wisdom from having been said by a famous founding ancestor.  Instead that famous founding ancestor can be said to have some wisdom because he made the above statement.  Whatever other statements said founding ancestor might have made, need to be judged on their own merits.”

Here is an easy link to RecallTheTraitors.blogspot.com mentioned in the video that went along with the article.  This was in conjunction with the call to Join The Drive to Recall All Congressmen and Senators who voted for the NDAA indefitinite detention of American citizens.