Even my least favorite terrorist sympathizer, one who has been palling around with terrorists since he was a child receiving affection from one, deserves a trial and a specific prison sentence. This law is shockingly, disgustingly wrong.
Posted on 01/04/2012 4:29:55 PM PST by wagglebee
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President Obama wrote, “I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens.
The “finite” detention on the other hand will be
authorized in a heart beat.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights does not allow a citizen to be held without a speedy right to trial. This law will collapse with the first trial of any kind. It means nothing!
Here is a list of the members of the US Senate who voted for NDAA and in favor of giving President Obama the power to detain Pro Life activists in prison without trial.
Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI]
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN]
Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R, NH]
Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY]
Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT]
Sen. Mark Begich [D, AK]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D, CO]
Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D, CT]
Sen. Roy Blunt [R, MO]
Sen. John Boozman [R, AR]
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA]
Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE]
Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA]
Sen. Daniel Coats [R, IN]
Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS]
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND]
Sen. Chris Coons [D, DE]
Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN]
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX]
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY]
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC]
Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA]
Sen. Kay Hagan [D, NC]
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT]
Sen. Dean Heller [R, NV]
Sen. John Hoeven [R, ND]
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX]
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK]
Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI]
Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]
Sen. Mike Johanns [R, NE]
Sen. Ron Johnson [R, WI]
Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
Sen. Mark Kirk [R, IL]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI]
Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ]
Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT]
Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI]
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT]
Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN]
Sen. Joe Manchin [D, WV]
Sen. John McCain [R, AZ]
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO]
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY]
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
Sen. Jerry Moran [R, KS]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK]
Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL]
Sen. Robert Portman [R, OH]
Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
Sen. John Reed [D, RI]
Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV]
Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS]
Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
Sen. Marco Rubio [R, FL]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D, NH]
Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL]
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
Sen. Jon Tester [D, MT]
Sen. John Thune [R, SD]
Sen. Patrick Toomey [R, PA]
Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM]
Sen. Mark Udall [D, CO]
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA]
Sen. Mark Warner [D, VA]
Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS]
Haven’t any of these congressional freaks ever read the Constitution?????? I guess they can’t read...they don’t read most of the bills they pass. Tools to Tyranny!
“Constitutional experts warn a new law that allows the president to permanently detain U.S. citizens without trial could be used against pro-life activists, who have already been defined as potential terrorists in documents by some government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security.”
It’s not a stretch for Obama or some other President name the Tea Party as “potential terrorists”.
What's the problem here?
Everybody involved with this forum could be considered a threat under this new legislation!
Even my least favorite terrorist sympathizer, one who has been palling around with terrorists since he was a child receiving affection from one, deserves a trial and a specific prison sentence. This law is shockingly, disgustingly wrong.
I believe this would qualify as a suspension of Habeaus Corpus.
This was what I was worried about when I first read the Patriot Act. The amount of things that defined a ‘terrorist’ sure didn’t sound like it was aimed at foreign enemies.
It looked like it was made to eventually round up christian conservatives. The fact that it was supported by the people who would eventually be imprisoned by it just stunned me.
Look at who homeland security says are terrorists, people who are pro constitution and returning war vets. Look who the TSA molests.
They are getting us to build our own cages - using our own patriotism to destroy us.
wagglebee, this article is not true. These “constitutional scholars” are just yanking your chain.
The article itself quotes the language of the bill that specifically excludes US citizens, and that it applies only to Al-Qaeda.
It in fact doesn’t give any power to the Presidents that they don’t already have, and Senators like Rubio and DeMint would not have voted for it if it in anyway would lead to detention without trial of American dissidents.
This is simply crying wolf.
There are too many real threats from Obama to waste time on something like this, but day after day, it keeps surfacing on FR.
You are exactly right. There are, no doubt, disingenuous lawyers who would argue otherwise for the right price, but they should be ashamed of themselves. This is a clear and unforgivable violation of the Constitution and should not be tolerated, whether the citizen whose rights are being trampled is an Islamic terrorist, a peaceful pro-life protester, or a Manchurian Candidate leading "Occupy the White House". This is the United States, not North Korea, and we should act like Americans.
The speech Lindsey Graham and John McCain made will make you puke. I’m sure it’s on youtube. Lets go arrest them.
If you read the report’s description of terrorists, the occupy folks and latest governor walker protestors would be called terrorists.
Are there any pro-life Christians who meet the criteria?
bttt
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