Over the past decade, Congressmen and women in both parties have tried to bolster their national security bona fides by endorsing ever more draconian laws related to the treatment of “suspects.” The strategy served them well politically, until this year.
This year, Congress cheerfully pushed through the National Defense Authorization Act, which encouraged and in some cases mandated indefinite military detention without charges for “terror suspects.” What happened next surprised everyone: people got mad.
At a time when Congressmen are launching reelection campaigns, where they would normally be lauding their votes as proof they are “tough on terror,” they are being condemned at town hall meetings and scrambling to revise the law before their initial support for the NDAA can harm them in the election.
Changing it might not be so easy. The bill was hotly contested by President Obama in the first place: not on civil liberties grounds, of course, but under the belief that the president gets to do such detentions whenever he wants anyhow, and that Congressional efforts to codify “when and how” is stepping on the executive branch’s toes.
Obama issued signing statements ignoring a good chunk of the NDAA in the first place, and would likely fight even more fiercely against a “revision” law that seeks to limit the open-ended detention of American citizens.
Stupidi law.
the main issues in this 2012 election year are: 1) Freedom. repeal NDAA, Patriot Act; 2) Restore 4th Amendment; 3)Cut spending on military and regulations – a trillion from budget in first year (in other words do what Greese was made to do); 4) Really SECURE SOUTHERN BORDER; 5) DEREGULATE so business can operate efficiently and INVESTIGATE THE FEDERAL RESERVE ie. WHERE IS THE GOLD REALLY SECURED? ( May have been pledged to China); and 6) Watch out for BRIC and the weakening of the dollar. So goes Greese, so gos the rest of the west.
Why does the archaic term "hoist by your own petard" come to mind?
Understanding NDAA 2012 http://files.meetup.com/1275333/Understanding%20N…
They finally looked up the FBI memo I mentioned and realized Bush43 was doing it all for the orgasm.
Of course, for the Republicans it would be excellent election strategy to use their majority in the House to force through a revision law if it pushed Obama into defending an awful policy and law during an election year.
The Democrats would never do this to the Bush era Republicans, and now we know why. The Democrats wanted even more tyranical powers than Bush claimed. Now we get to see if the Republicans are for real. It would make wonderful election strategy to push such a revision law. If they don't do it, then we know its because they also favor tyranny over even a winning election strategy.
Truth hurts, don't it boys.
I think that it's pretty obvious, or should be – to anyone who's a passionate fan of liberty and freedom – that both of these mainstream political parties are today filled, from top to bottom, with arrogant, power hungry, totalitarian control freaks. Evil Monsters. Hardened criminals and certifiable, mentally deranged, war mongering, blood-thirsty, irrational psychopaths.
Put a microscope on the likes of Joe Lieberman, or Lindsay Graham, or Juan McAmnestyMcCain – or Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich, three human slabs of outhouse bacteria who are foaming at the mouth for a chance to start World War 3 – all because they are bought & paid for stooges for the Israel Lobby and the criminal gang who operates out of Tel Aviv. Every word out of their mouths either involves them proclaiming their 'support' for every new piece of tyrannical legislation that gets hatched out of the demonically evil brains of the ADL & SPLC, who now appear to be writing the legislation for our US Congress to vote on – or, they're all screaming about wanting to start new wars, to slaughter millions of more innocent people. And, to pay for all these wars – they want to drastically cut Social Security and Medicare, which are EARNED entitlements, not 'freebies' that are ill-advised and unearned gifts from the government – meaning, from the productive taxpayers.
The earlier comment about our massively bloated and out of control military war machine budget is right on the money. Notice I didn't call it the 'defense budget' – because these bloodthirsty neo-cons are not using the military for 'defense' of America. They are using it in a clearly 'offensive'and 'aggressive' fashion, and its become a mercenary force for the State of Israel and for their 5th column of treasonous allies who've hijacked the US Government.
These ruling elites are clearly drunk on their own arrogance. These ruling elites are hostile enemies of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights that every one of them were required to swear an oath to obey, uphold, and defend. These ruling elites see those precious and sacred documents, as well as the rule of law – as irritating obstacles to their diabolically evil and murderous and totalitarian agendas. They hold those documents in contempt, as shown by the utterance from the war criminal from Crawford, Texas – when he was quoted as screaming that the Constitution is just a 'G-damned piece of paper' and told one of his advisers to stop waving it in his face.
So, the question falls into our laps. How do we stop these evil tyrants, short of 1776 The Sequel? Well, the sovereign states are finally beginning to rebel – and passing state laws which nullify some of this federal tyranny, and that is an excellent development. Pay heed, all of you sorry liberals and leftist who for years have tried to ignore the 10th Amendment and who've tried your best to demonize it in as many ways as possible.
But, what really does need to happen – is these war mongering, treasonous neo-cons and every last member of Congress who've supported these treasonous assaults on our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights – these rats deserve to be removed from office, charged with treason and with violations of their oaths of office, tried and swiftly convicted and then sent to Federal prison for the rest of their miserable, stinking lives.