Posted on 12/06/2012 12:33:00 PM PST by lowbridge
In a slam to human rights in the United States, on Tuesday, Senators unanimously passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2013, including potential dictatorial capacity to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil to arrest citizens.
One amendment to the 2013 version of the defense spending bill unanimously passed Tuesday by the Senate clarified the right to trial of citizens and permanent legal residents detained under the relevant sections of the revamped measure, but according to civil and human rights experts, this amendment created the potential for even more rights violations than NDAA 2012.
The amendment, "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.
It might look like a fix, but it breaks things further," explains Chris Anders, an attorney with the Washington, DC legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Feinstein's amendment says that American citizens and green-card holders in the United States cannot be put into indefinite detention in a military prison, but carves out everyone else in the United States.
The Feinstein amendment may imply that the military has the right to act within the United States. Theres been a longstanding principle that the Constitution applies to all persons in the United States. We dont divide up who gets rights by citizenship status. Nobody gets thrown under the bus in terms of due process in the United States, he says.
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I'm pretty revolting now, just ask anyone.
/johnny
“Will American boys and girls open fire on their own people?”
If so then we’ll fire right back at them. And then we’ll hunt down the people who gave them their orders and deal with them accordingly.
“Treat me fair and I’ll treat you better. Treat me bad and I’ll treat you worse.”
My man Allen West voted FOR this nazi germany style NDAA bill!! I STILL can’t believe it. What the hell was he thinking?! He HAS to walk his ‘aye’ vote back.
“So it is NOT to detain citizens.”
Now prove that you’re a citizen.
And it was not just West that voted ‘aye’ on the original NDAA bill also. One heck of a lot of ‘our side’ voted for it also.
“Now prove that youre a citizen.”
“But, but - I forgot my wallet in my other jacket...” as I was dragged across the gravel to the waiting box car.
I guess they know what’s coming. They are smarter than they look.
Good luck getting our boys and girls to turn on us. They were not raised to hurt or kill their own kind.
More than likely the big “O” will try to set his new class of 2013 brownshirts loose on the public. Thats going to work for about an hour.
It's not going to be pretty. Nothing can be as bloody as a national feud. And nothing will be so complete as the rooting out of every single person who thinks they can escape the true justice of what the U.S. Constitution terms, capital "C", "Citizens."
Just ask the Gods of the Copybook Heading, who originally penned the phrase, "What goes around, comes around."
“More than likely the big O will try to set his new class of 2013 brownshirts loose on the public. Thats going to work for about an hour.”
Yep, the Rambo forecasters at the National Weather Service will jump out from behind their desks and shoot cop-killer bullets out their arses and hit every target at 500 meters or better.
They’ll be followed by the Fat Welfare Momma Brigade who will bomb survivors with jumbo bags of chips bought as long as their EBT cards work.
This article has some problems, especially in not clarifying the difference between “detention”, and “indictment, arrest, and trial”. With detention, you are *not* under arrest, so you do not get Mirandized, nor can you invoke habeus corpus, not can you get all the other protections afforded those who are IAT’ed.
The founding fathers went to great pains to protect against such a thing. This bozo is trying to disassemble everything they did. There should be no standing army in this country. I’m so glad I didn’t vote for this clown or any democrats lately. They are destroying everything!
"Mama, don't let your baby grow up to be a brownshirt."
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