Posted on 12/15/2011 6:23:08 AM PST by kronos77
Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans.
After passing in the House of Representatives earlier this year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 went before the US Senate last week, where it was met with overwhelming approval. In the days before, the Obama administration issued a policy statement on November 17 saying explicitly that the president would veto the bill, as it would challenge “the president’s critical authorities to collect intelligence incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the nation.”
Opposition from the White House seemed all but rampant until RT revealed earlier this week that Senator Carl Levin told lawmakers that the legislation was altered because “the administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that those last minute changes yielded legislation that would “not challenge the president’s ability to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the American people,” and therefore “the president’s senior advisers will not recommend a veto.”
Originally the White House said that the administration objected to matters in the bill that applied to detainees. Under the act, Americans could be arrested and held indefinitely in military-run prisons and tortured without charges ever being brought forth, essentially making Guantanamo Bay a threat for every American citizen.
Under the legislation, a literal police state will be installed over the United States. Republican Congressman Ron Paul said earlier this week that “this should be the biggest news going right now,” as the legislation would allow for “literally legalizing martial law.”
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Not sure if you're being flippant or not. There is something going on about 60 miles south of the Texas/Mexico border. Truck drivers have been "escorted" from the U.S. side to that location with mirrors removed, all electronics confiscated. Their vehicles were unloaded, then they were escorted back to the U.S. side. Why the clandestine behavior? The driver reporting this expressed a pretty firm conviction that he was making a big delivery to a military installation.
What the law states means nothing.
baraq and his gang make up the rules as they go along.
The intent for this law is to be able to detain terrorists, but American citizens who disagree with this gang have already been labeled as terrorists.
With the definition of “terrorist” soon to include anyone who so much as questions the government status quo, even as real terrorists move freely across the Mexican and Canadian borders, Obama has taken a giant step toward dictatorship.
In a Better World, this would never survive Supreme Court scutiny; however, at this point in time, can we really put our faith in the Founders’ venerated doctrine of checks and balances?
America is sinking fast.
I remember reading years ago they were going to crash the dollar. At the time it seemed crazy.
The tea party protests were required to pull permits for a few hours of gathering.
Well....
If you got too much food, govt. will take that to give to poor jobless immigrants.
And if you got too much land, govt. will take that to give to the immigrants,
and, realy, do you need two cars? Sure not! Govt. will take one to give to the poor. And quite frankly, your house is just too big for one family....
Sad and tragic... its like...1936....
And with the stroke of a pen, we are all now one accusation away from a damp cell, denied legal representation, never to be heard from again.
Yep
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