Posted on 12/06/2012 12:27:21 PM PST by lowbridge
Just after 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, the Senate did it again. By a vote of 98-0 (two senators abstained) lawmakers in the upper chamber approved the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Not a single senator objected to the passage once again of a law that purports to permit the president, supported by nothing more substantial than his own belief that the suspect poses a threat to national security, to deploy the U.S. military to arrest an American living in America.
As The New American reported, an amendment to the 2013 version of the defense spending bill passed by the Senate clarified the right to trial of “citizens and permanent legal residents” detained under the relevant sections of the revamped measure.
The amendment, known as the Feinstein-Lee Amendment, was cosponsored by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.). In an interview Tuesday with The New American, spokesmen for Lee and Paul admitted that the amendment did not go far enough in the defense of due process, but said it was a step in the right direction.
“Colored by our experience with the due process amendment to the NDAA we offered in 2012, we knew that we would have nowhere near the number of votes needed to pass an amendment that guaranteed due process for all persons detained under the NDAA,” explained Doug Stafford, chief of staff for Rand Paul.
Stafford and Rob Porter, general counsel for the office of Senator Lee, reiterated that they recognize that the Feinstein-Lee Amendment was not the ideal attack on the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA. Senators Lee and Paul believe, the spokesmen assured The New American, that “the full panoply of due process rights should apply to all persons, not just American citizens.”
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Wow! That's pretty impressive!! Almost as good as an election for Saddam Hussein or Castro or Il-un
Um, it's time to leave.
— Michigan House passes bill blocking NDAA detention
What we need is less powers for the Marxist,less government , less laws .For example abolish the EPA, IRS, FDA, HUD etc.
What is wrong with people?
When are the people going to rise up and fight for our freedom? Yes I realize the media has a lot brainwashed but clearly some people should see the growth of government size and power as a threat and act to stop it?
I see the Egyptians protesting and fighting in the streets. I see no one in America doing anything but sitting on their asses watching football and a liberal like Bob Costas lecturing to us to give up our right to defend ourselves.
Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.)???????
I couldn’t agree more - did you see the photo of one of those Egyptian protesters with a sign that said: Obama- your bitch is our Dictator.
I couldn’t agree more - did you see the photo of one of those Egyptian protesters with a sign that said: Obama- your bitch is our Dictator.
I was at the Post Office early Monday morning to mail a package. The line was out the door so I took my spot and the guy behind me says something about the line. I say, "Yeah, and now they are in control of your healthcare"
This is an older, 60ish, white guy --you know PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE--he looks at me like I have three heads and mumbles some question about "healthcare?". Like I was speaking a foreign language and he had no idea what I was talking about.
OKAY, whatever.
Old guy, number two comes in line behind them -- they immediately break into a twenty minute long conversation about some dumb ass movie. It went on and on...two grown, seasoned men --morons. Not a serious bone in their bodies --just idiots.
riri~:” What’s that say about the state of your country when a bill to “disappear people” passes with a vote of 98-0. “
Eric holder : “ ...Due Process and Judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
The Constitution guarantees due process it does not guarantee Judicial process . “ ~ Eric holder
Pay attention - the inmates ARE running the asylum!
He's got it right . And this Obama marxist piece of crap is doing to us what the Egyptian dictator is doing in Egypt. But Americans are sitting on their asses watching football and movies while the liberal media, democrats and Obama take away our freedom. They give us football, bread and circuses and the idiots are happy. Egyptians are out in the streets fighting and protesting THEIR dictator. We should do what the Egyptians are doing but will we? I doubt it
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Time to leave the USA....
He wanted a national police force. Now he’s got it.
Answer. Why I am not a Republican.
Question.
Answer. Why I am not a Republican.
Question.
What is wrong is that the FBI has every email and phone call that any of these people have made and they are owned and controlled completely by holder and obama.
LLS
You ran into two senior obama voters.
LLS
I know a couple of useful mid-aged white idiots that all they know is about some stupid show the Walking Dead.
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