The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 was the final nail in the coffin of the Constitution before the lid was completely closed. From then on, the entire United States turned into a giant battlefield. In this battlefield, the US government and military could do whatever they wanted against anyone, without any judicial oversight or constitutional constraints. Once the National Defense Authorization Act came into effect, the Bill of Rights would no longer protect US citizens from government infringement, and the Constitution would no longer be the supreme law of the land...

[Editor's Note: The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 has been passed by both the US House of Representatives and the Senate respectively. After coordination between the two houses, the bill will be submitted to Obama. Once Obama signs it, the bill will take effect, and the personal and democratic rights of US citizens will be seriously infringed upon. The latest news indicates that Obama will not exercise his veto power to veto the bill. As the author of this article pointed out, the essence of the bill is to legally subvert the bourgeois constitutional democratic system of the United States and lay the legal foundation for the United States to evolve into a dictatorial police state in the future. Comrades who have some understanding of modern world history may know that back then, the little mustache in Germany gained unrestrained dictatorial power after the German Reichstag passed the so-called "Enabling Act". Today, US capitalism is gradually eroding the democratic rights of the American people through one National Defense Authorization Act after another, and preparing legally for the establishment of bourgeois fascist rule in the future. This is a manifestation of the decay and dying nature of the entire capitalist system, further proving that capitalism has completely degenerated into a reactionary social system in history and is about to head towards destruction.]

The US National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, once signed into law by the President, effectively tolls the death knell for our constitutional republic and marks the beginning of the United States becoming a police state explicitly defined by law. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the bill on May 26 and December 1 of this year, respectively. Now, Barack Obama, as a constitutional law expert, will make the final decision. Obama will decide whether the Bill of Rights, which he himself studied and researched at Harvard University, will be overturned by a bill he personally signs into law. (Translator's Note: The "Bill of Rights" in US law refers to the clauses in the US Constitution protecting citizens' personal and political rights, namely the First through Tenth Amendments to the US Constitution)

Sections 1031 and 1032 of the National Defense Authorization Act stipulate that as long as the President deems it necessary, the government can indefinitely detain US citizens without the need for charges or trial. According to the bill, federal government officials can arrest any US citizen based on mere suspicion, without having to present evidence to any judge or obtain an arrest warrant. The government does not need to provide any evidence to suspend the constitutional rights of any US citizen. The reason for suspicion can be that someone has participated in a "suspicious organization" in the past or present. If government officials believe that someone poses a threat to "national security", they will effectively possess unrestrained power to arbitrarily arrest, interrogate, and indefinitely detain a law-abiding citizen. The bill also authorizes the US Army, Navy, and Air Force to arrest any US citizen anywhere in the world based on "national security" needs, without due process of law. (Translator's Note: "Due process" here refers to "procedural justice" often mentioned by domestic liberal legal professionals)

Once this bill takes effect, what will be destroyed is not only the US Constitution, but the entire modern Western judicial tradition. The most basic concept of law in the civilized world is that people cannot be arbitrarily arrested without charges, and arrested persons cannot be detained indefinitely without trial. (Translator's Note: The "civilized world law" mentioned by the original author here obviously reflects the author's reactionary Eurocentric and racist thoughts) These principles can be traced back to the Greco-Roman era, were further developed under the English common law tradition since the Magna Carta in 1215, and were further promoted during the Enlightenment in the 18th century. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created to practice these principles and thus became the supreme law of the United States.

In the two centuries since the creation of the US Constitution, it was precisely because the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution endowed the American people with inalienable rights of freedom that the United States was admired by people all over the world. However, since the September 11 attacks, our country seems to have been threatened so hugely that our national leaders are willing to abandon all the inalienable rights upon which our republic was founded. We have to ask ourselves, do we still want to continue to exist as a democratic country, do we still want to open up new territories to realize freedom and justice for all; or are we willing to become a military police state, a country where the democratic system has been eroded by the corruption of bankers and militarism. Just like the Spartans of ancient Greece, living in a state of emergency of war at all times? (Translator's Note: Readers can ignore the bourgeois and imperialist stance expressed by the original author here)

After seeing this news, I suddenly remembered the Great Depression era in the United States. In that era, in order to solve problems, the United States actually changed from bourgeois free competition to a government dominance, and its degree of dictatorship was far beyond what the Soviet Union and China could compare with. In order to maintain this dictatorial system, the United States implemented a Great Purge movement. The author will give a brief introduction to this Great Purge movement. Later, I will also write about the Great Counterattack against "Peaceful Evolution" in the McCarthy era. And how the McCarthyism movement killed off peaceful evolution.

In 1929, the Great Depression descended, and the United States fell into a comprehensive crisis. Roosevelt took office in a hurry. In order to deal with the crisis, various financial groups had to hand over a lot of power to the President.

Either give money or give people. For example, the Morgan financial group handed over its private army to the President.

In order to deal with the crisis, a brutal Great Purge was carried out within the United States. Its intensity was even higher than the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.

First, targeting the department that triggered the crisis—the banking industry, the local US financial groups adopted a drastic method of slashing against banks controlled by foreign financial groups. A famous song during the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan goes, "Swing the big sword at the heads of the devils." If speaking of the US banking industry during the Great Depression, it would be "Swing the big sword at the heads of the Jews and Europeans." Of course, the United States was after all an industrial country back then, and most of those doing the dirty work were Italians and Irish, so the ghost-head big sword naturally did not become the mainstream. Pistols, ropes, and daggers became the main tools of slaughter.

Among the tens of thousands of bankrupt banks, nearly 100,000 "foreign" (Jewish and European) shareholders went missing. A large number of banks and enterprises fell into a situation where there were no heirs, and were finally swallowed up and carved up by local US financial groups.

Secondly, the slaughter targeting socialists.

The Mafia in the United States was very rampant, and the reason why the Mafia could exist was not merely because they had influence in the underground order; collusion between the underworld and the police has always been the main reason for the Mafia's existence. One of the main services provided by the Mafia to the officials was to assassinate socialist movement leaders. Intimidating and beating people who demanded social change. Pinkerton's mercenary group numbered tens of thousands, which was already a semi-official organization. And the private armies of more large enterprises were even more fierce. When the private army of the Rockefeller financial group swept through the coal miners, the coal miners almost had two guns per person on average. After the great sweep by the underworld and the private armies of the financial groups, the grassroots masses advocating socialist revolution were almost completely wiped out.

The number of people killed by the Mafia and private armies can be counted in units of 100,000.

Thirdly, the slaughter for betraying the "White Puritan" lifestyle.

The underworld and private armies were mentioned above. The Great Depression greatly weakened the power of the financial groups and strengthened the power of the President. The management of the underworld and private armies was put on the agenda. For management in this aspect, Roosevelt appointed a famous figure, J. Edgar Hoover.

After Hoover took office, on the one hand, he carried out a brutal crackdown on organized crime. There is a movie in the United States called "Public Enemies", which tells an epic gangster legend story, focusing on the danger-filled short life of the famous bank robber John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp).

Eliminating organized crime everywhere was one of the several major measures taken by FBI Director Hoover after he took office during the Great Depression. I used to think there was nothing wrong with doing this. Put in China's context, this is called "using heavy punishments in troubled times".

But Director Hoover was not only eliminating criminals; homosexuals and various non-Puritan lifestyles were all within the range of his iron fist strikes.

What Director Hoover wanted to show the American people through his actions was—anyone who cannot abide by the White Puritan lifestyle must be eliminated. Coupled with the cooperation of the media, the US government proposed a lifestyle model to the people—first you must be white, and you must believe in the Lord, and you must obey, and you must not commit crimes. The most important thing is, you have to obey the government's orders. Anyone who violated this lifestyle suffered brutal persecution and slaughter.

This kind of persecution and slaughter, in the name of the law, was merciless and exterminating.

Finally, statistics.

This kind of statistics actually cannot produce accurate data, because the United States knows public relations very well. Large amounts of materials and information were destroyed, insiders were threatened, and even eliminated by various methods.

According to the model used by some people to calculate those three years, the United States lost nearly 10 million people abnormally during the Great Depression. That is to say, one out of ten people suffered persecution and died. (Mad Cat's spoofing laughter)

The Elites calculated that 40 million people died in the Great Famine in China based on the population growth rate, so we can also calculate the death toll of the Great Depression in the United States based on the population growth rate:

1920: 106.02 million

1930: 123.20 million

1940: 132.16 million

1950: 151.32 million

1960: 179.32 million

1920-1930, increased by 17 million;

1930-1940, increased by 8.96 million;

1940-1950, increased by 19.16 million;

1950-1960, increased by 28 million.

According to the calculation method of the Elites, the United States should have added 18 million+ people from 1930 to 1940~ but only added 8.96 million~ so the United States starved to death 9 million+ people.

However, this Great Purge in the United States also played a role. First, it united the white people who were the main race in the United States at that time, thoroughly suppressed other colored races, and cleared up the social order. Even if the American people starved to death, they dared not cross the line one step, and dared not raise objections to the political system at that time. Of course, those who dared to object were systematically eliminated from spirit to body.

This made the American people cry, wail, starve to death, die of illness, and purified the social atmosphere of the United States.

The influence of these measures lasted for a long time. In the 1960s and 70s, college students who dared to oppose the government, even if they were shot by the National Guard or wounded, their parents firmly believed that these college students were wrong. If they hadn't made mistakes, how could they be shot by the relevant state departments? (This is a fact. When the surviving college students recalled this matter, they stated with a shudder the universal opposition of society towards them)

In terms of scale and intensity, the purge during the Great Depression in the United States far exceeded the Great Purge in the Soviet Union. It can be described as a famous thing in the history of human nations. The only thing that can compare with it is the great slaughter of the urban "mob" in the Victorian era. (Stealing a few shillings could lead to the guillotine, and ten-year-old thieves were exiled to Australia)