NDAA bad. Opposing NDAA good. Too complex for you? Heres a more poetical version: The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is routine legislation passed annually to finance US military operations overseas. But new language was quietly added to the NDAA in 2012 which authorizes Guantanamo Bay-style indefinite detentions on US soil. The new language is dangerously vague and strongly implies that America is now a battlefield in the war on terror and that anyone, including US citizens, can now be denied constitutional protections and be subjected to the laws of war: kidnapped in the middle of the night on accusation alone, hooded, shackled and locked away possibly for life with no right to counsel, no right to face her accuser, no right to a jury of his peers. So dangerous is this new language that President Obama issued a signing statement promising that his administration would never indefinitely detain Americans under the laws of war but warned that future presidents could do so unless the new language is fixed. Benjamin Franklins famous quote comes to mind: They who sacrifice essential liberty to gain temporary safety shall have neither. franklinmatters.org/2014/03/national-defense-authorization-act-what.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FranklinMatters+%28Franklin+Matters%29
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:02:30 +0000
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