A flurry of votes on amendments to the 2014 Defense Authorization Bill have showed a trend of affirming the status quo and rejecting efforts to roll back the more controversial styles of open-ended detention.
The big vote surrounded trying to roll back the NDAA authorization for turning US citizens over to the military to be held without charges for as long as they see hit. The vote was close, but 200-226, the House decided not to revoke this authority.
The amendment was split largely along party lines, though the sponsors included not only Rep. Adam Smith (D – WA), but two Republicans, Reps. Justin Amash (R – MI) and Chris Gibson (R – NY).
Another amendment did pass, however, and that was the one from Rep. Jackie Walorski (R – IN) prohibiting releasing any of the Guantanamo Bay detainees if they might go to Yemen.
This was a big issue because 56 detainees out of the 164 at the facility are Yemenis who have been cleared for release. They’ll never faces charges, but the amendment assures they won’t get to leave either.
I am trying to get my thoughts straight – did our House of Representatives ACTUALLY vote to keep prisoners at our gulag in Guantanamo, even if not proven guilty and even cleared of all charges? Did these Representatives ever read the Constitution that they swear to uphold? And do we really PAY these morons?
The NDAA already allows for indefinite detention of US citizens by the US military. The vote was to repeal that section of the NDAA, and it failed.
Ah, anyone need anymore proof that many of the Congress have been read on to the police state? I wonder how they'll feel when the police state they support now, comes for them some day down the road because though they may feel that they are on the "inside" now, it may not always be the case and they've given the State the tools to just grab whomever – including them – off the street and away forever. You know, stuff that used to happen (may still be happening) in the Soviet Union…
Thank you conseratives! Without all you right-winger, patriotic, flag waving morons, it wouldn't have been possible. Please read Poncho Threetrees.
Couldn't someone just sneak a rider into a 'must pass' bill to do this?
You "Amuricans" will la la la 'I'm not doing anything wrong why should I worry" right up to the moment you're being herded into to the cattle cars headed to nowhere… Wake up people…
from reading the bill it is my understanding that this applies to US citizens caught fighting US troops overseas, posse comitatus trumps NDAA for US citizens in the US
The citizens of this nation need to take a vote. We need to vote with our actions, not our words. Here's how. If you see federal agents assaulting and besieging your neighbors, grab your weapons, call everyone you know who is able to come help. Fight back, if we don't stan together, we will surely hang seperately. DO not do as the Germans did and turn a blind-eye becasue today they did not come for you, they will come and you will be on your own. We MUST protect eachother. Believe nothing the media says about your neighbor, believe nothing the "authorities" tell you. If those that we have charged with upholding the law have become lawless, then it is up to us to enforce the law….with deadly force.
I'm pretty upset by the tyranny of thee US government. We no longer live in a free society. The lamb-like beast begins to speak like a dragon. Soon we shall see the Mark enforced upon the people.
There isn't any stopping this. It is foretold. But we can decide to keep our moral autonomy and our freedom of conscience. Anyone who does so will suffer intensely, but it is better to lose the world and keep your soul.