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Chris Hedges: “It’s Frightening How Hard Obama is Fighting Us”
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Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel
On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2012
(NDAA).
The National Defense Authorization Act is a bill passed into law each year. It allows the government to continue funding national security interests and the military for the next fiscal year.
This year’s bill, however, was different: It contains a series of striking provisions which violate basic principles of American jurisprudence, of which many are thought to be highly unconstitutional.
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The 2012 NDAA greatly expands the power of the federal government to fight the so-called War on Terror. Many– including some of the law’s sponsors– assert that the NDAA seeks to authorize the US military, for the first time in more than 200 years, to carry out domestic policing.
The language of this law is dangerously vague, but many– including several of its sponsors– believe that it grants what are essentially dictatorial powers to the federal government.
Section 1021 of the NDAA allow for the arrest of any American citizen (or anyone, anywhere) without warrant and to indefinitely detain them without any charge. Suspects can be shipped by the military to our offshore prisons and kept there until “the end of hostilities.” No proof, no habeas corpus, no warrant, no due process, no trial, and no legal counsel. No need to pack your bags and say goodbye, because off to the Gulag you will go.
It is a catastrophic blow to our civil liberties, freedoms, and basic provisions contained in the Bill of Rights. The ACLU weighed in with their statement:
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Clik here to view.For the first time in American history, we have a law authorizing the worldwide and indefinite military detention of people captured far from any battlefield. The NDAA has no temporal or geographic limitations. It is completely at odds with our values, violates the Constitution, and corrodes our Nation’s commitment to the rule of law.”
In this outstanding WeAreChange.org interview above, award-winning author, columnist, journalist, and litigant-plaintiff Chris Hedges gives us an update of his lawsuit. Stricken by the lower Southern District Court of New York as being unconstitutional and with the Obama Administration ‘aggressively’ pursuing an appeal and emergency stay of action, Section 1021 of the NDAA may likely reach the Supreme Court for a decision.
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Outside the hearing for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the Hedges v Obama NDAA complaint, Hedges underscores the idea that the NDAA gives President Obama– or his designates– the frightening and unchecked power to indefinitely detain any American on any suspicion at any time for virtually any reason, anywhere.
What will you do when they come for you?
You can find out more and take action at StopNDAA.org.
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