Posted on 11/29/2011 12:44:15 PM PST by Fennie
America is opening up a new warfront and it's in your own backyard. It's in your neighbor's house, it's three states over and it's on the other side of the Mississippi.
That's what a new legislation could lead to and the consequences are dire and constitutionally damning.
The United States Senate is set to vote this week on a bill that would categorize the entire USA as a "battlefield," allowing law enforcement duties to be dished out by the American Military, who in turn could detain any US citizen as a war criminal - even coming into their own homes to issue arrests.
The National Defense Authorization Act regularly comes before Congress for changes and additions, but the latest provision, S. 1867, proves to be the most powerful one yet in raping constitutional freedoms from Americans. Move over, Patriot Act. Should S. 1867 pass, lawmakers could conjure the text to keep even regular citizens detained indefinitely by their own military.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
“I suspect though it’ll never pass the house.”
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House passed it on May 16th 2011.
HR 1540
Section 1034 grants this power.
Sick isn’t it?
Vote totals:
322 Aye
96 No
Check here:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-375
To see what representatives voted to pass it
How about an opinion from Judge Napolitano?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/12/01/can-congress-steal-your-constitutional-freedoms/
Thx for that and yes, its really sick. Believe it or not Barry Soetoro is our only hope this mess doesn’t become law. Supposedly hes vowed to veto it. We’ll see....
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