It's Hard To Believe America Is Coming To This.
By elmiko
@elmiko (6630)
United States
August 22, 2012 12:43pm CST
This discussion has to do with the National Defense Authorization Act. An act in which Obama signed into law which gives the U.S. Government the power to do what it wants when it wants. This law in it self could dismantle a third of The Bill of Rights. I still don't think this law will hold up in court though because if it passed as legal America as we know it wouldn't exist anymore. I think the word needs to get out about this as this shouldn't be allowed to happen.
Here's the Article I found:
Despite a mainstream media blackout on the topic, the alternative media is abuzz with this week’s hearing on the constitutionality of the clearly unconstitutional NDAA. In case you don’t remember, section 1021 of the NDAA, which Obama signed into law on December 31 of last year, allows the government to lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely without a trial. At the time of signing, Obama penned a pathetic letter to many of his outraged supporters where he basically said he signed it but he won’t use it. Thanks pal!
In any event, the Administration is showing its true colors by appealing an injunction that judge Katherine Forrest issued against it in May. The injunction was in response to the lawsuit filed by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges and others. While the NDAA clearly vaporizes the 5th and 6th Amendments of the Constitution, I believe the real target is the 1st Amendment. By having a law on the books that allows the government to arbitrarily lock anyone up and throw away the key, the government is actually trying to instill enough fear in people that they self-censor speech and become too afraid to criticize the criminal elite political and economic oligarchy.
Tangerine Bolen is one the lead plaintiffs in the suit against the government and she penned a powerful piece for the UK’s Guardian. Here are some key quotes:
I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial.
In a May hearing, Judge Katherine Forrest issued an injunction against it; this week, in a final hearing in New York City, US government lawyers asserted even more extreme powers – the right to disregard entirely the judge and the law. On Monday 6 August, Obama’s lawyers filed an appeal to the injunction – a profoundly important development that, as of this writing, has been scarcely reported.
Judge Forrest had ruled for a temporary injunction against an unconstitutional provision in this law, after government attorneys refused to provide assurances to the court that plaintiffs and others would not be indefinitely detained for engaging in first amendment activities. At that time, twice the government has refused to define what it means to be an “associated force”, and it claimed the right to refrain from offering any clear definition of this term, or clear boundaries of power under this law.
This past week’s hearing was even more terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly, Obama’s attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA’s section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the US government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest’s injunction.
A video about this article interviewing a lawyer who is trying to have the law struck down as well as the article it self can be found at this web address:
http://www.yolohub.com/featured/forget-obamacare-this-might-be-the-most-important-lawsuit-in-american-history
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@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
22 Aug 12
I am losing faith in government, then again, I have been losing faith in my government for a long time. I don't even think that the president has the power to do this, and if he does, it'll never hold up in the Supreme Court because it is unconstitutional.
Checks and Balances were created to stop things like this from happening. All citizens of the US are supposed to be entitled to a fair trial by a jury of their peers, and NO President, Congress, or Supreme Court can touch that. It's there are a reason. This is one right that cannot disappear just like that.