I know this news is 3 weeks old. But I wanted to share this news with you after some of the internet chatter and dust has settled. The mainstream media didn't even report this news to the general public. You would think the media would want the public to be informed about this information that could adversely affect them.
The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms defines terrorism as:
The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
I also read President Obama's statement he made after signing this bill into law and he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. His behavior is seriously PASSIVE-AGRESSIVE.
Oh and for those of you who vehemently support President Obama, when has his word ever meant anything? He gave himself the power to detain Americans indefinitely without due process, but then tells Americans he won't use it. LOL! Yeah right. He has already used the power he gave himself to assasinate US citizens aboad who have been deemed a terrorist. What makes you think he won't use this if it is in his best interest. This is how government heads in other nations detain political prisoners who oppose their government publicly. China, Russia, Syria and Iran are good examples. These countries round up anyone who vocally opposes their government on the pretext that they are government terrorist.
President Obama could have line item vetoed this indefinite detention provision. Oh that's right, it was President Obama who requested that provision: NDAA Military Detention of Americans. The video below: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) on Senate floor explaining it was President Obama who requested the provision for indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial.
Oh and for those of you who vehemently support President Obama, when has his word ever meant anything? He gave himself the power to detain Americans indefinitely without due process, but then tells Americans he won't use it. LOL! Yeah right. He has already used the power he gave himself to assasinate US citizens aboad who have been deemed a terrorist. What makes you think he won't use this if it is in his best interest. This is how government heads in other nations detain political prisoners who oppose their government publicly. China, Russia, Syria and Iran are good examples. These countries round up anyone who vocally opposes their government on the pretext that they are government terrorist.
President Obama could have line item vetoed this indefinite detention provision. Oh that's right, it was President Obama who requested that provision: NDAA Military Detention of Americans. The video below: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) on Senate floor explaining it was President Obama who requested the provision for indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial.
ACLU
written by Amanda Simon
Saturday December 31, 2011
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law. As you know, the White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had “serious reservations” about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use it and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations.
The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.
Under the Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.
We are extremely disappointed that President Obama signed this bill even though his administration is already claiming overly-broad detention authority in court. Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back those claims dimmed today. Thankfully we have three branches of government, and the final word on the scope of detention authority belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.
The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.
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