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5 Reasons to Oppose the NDAA
Suppose you were a humanitarian relief worker. You spend your time at home and abroad bringing food aid to those whose lives have been devastated by disaster. You feel like you’re devoting your life to a good cause and truly helping your fellow man.
Then the U.S. government sends you to jail. Without a charge or trial. Forever.
When the War on Terror is over, you’re told, you might have a sporting chance of getting out. Because the War on Terror is totally going to end any day now, right? Dream big, detainees!
If that doesn’t strike you as a good scenario, your instincts are correct. It is, however, a conceivable situation if the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, or S.1867) is signed into law. Under the bill’s Section 1031, the federal government will claim the authority to indefinitely detain anyone, anywhere, if it deems them a threat in the fight against terror. Indeed, the NDAA “designates the world as the battlefield, including the homeland,” as Senator Lindsey Graham, as strong supporter of the measure, has put it. And the qualifications for being a terrorist threat are vague—so vague, in fact, that a “relief worker could end up in indefinite military detention without charge or trial for giving food or medical assistance to someone who turns out to have been a Taliban member or supporter.”
To say this is a scary bill is to utter a massive understatement, and it’s no wonder that civil libertarians of all political persuasions have been up in arms as the NDAA passed the Senate with a whopping 93 percent approval rating from our “representatives.”
Keep reading for five reasons to join the fight against the NDAA if you haven’t already.
UPDATE: The good news is this article is now also posted at Campaign for Liberty. The bad news is the House has since also passed the bill with strong bipartisan support.
If Newt Gingrich is the smartest guy in the room, leave that room.
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Gitmo Forever? Congress’s Dangerous New Bill
For nearly ten years now, Guantanamo Bay’s military prison has been an international symbol of United States lawlessness and a recruiting boon for al-Qaeda. If Congress gets its way the facility will stay that way for the indefinite future. Both houses of Congress have now approved versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a bill that would require the use of military detention and military courts for suspected terrorists and make it virtually impossible to close Guantanamo.
Another reason to oppose the NDAA.
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Intro: Freedom of Oppression?
Revolution- an overthrow or repudiation and thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. Our forefathers used this method to break away from the oppressive choke hold Great Britain had on us, is it time for the Second American Revolution? Personally I feel America’s time is coming. You have people bribing and extorting (lobbying) politicians to do their bidding, civil liberties being retracted and marked null and void, invading countries to make the world “safe for democracy”, wasting tax dollars on the war on terror and the war on drugs; but the real war should be the one on our home front.
The Declaration of Independence states that we have the right to overthrow the government if they infringe on our rights and liberties. It is our right to revolt if they abuse their power, why hasn’t anyone done this since there is a laundry list of “abuses and usurpation’s” over the years. People like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and John Adams would be appalled if they saw the corruption of power and abomination of democracy this country has become. It’s our job as the governed to incite the revolution. Who pays the taxes? We do. Who elects the officials? We do. Who runs the country? We should. We complain and bitch about who runs our country when we let it get this way. We gave our power to the government when in the beginning we had the power. We let them take advantage of us. We as tax paying citizens need to get up, take action, and make this change.
