This bill S1867 is going through - we only have TODAY to call our reps. Please read what this bill will do and act if you feel this must be stopped-
and sign this petition-
I called my congressman Waxmen and his secretary assured me he was voting against this - he is in the minority however...
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/498/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8895
Americans united against oppressive military detention powers
In America, the right to trial is fundamental, as are the rights to freedom of speech and freedom of belief. The detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now moving through Congress threaten each of these rights, rendering even US citizens subject to indefinite military detention without trial.
The proposal is far more radical than any national security policy advanced under the Bush Administration. Not only would expanded military detention threaten the right to trial by a jury of one's peers, it would dramatically undermine democracy by creating the legal authority to detain dissidents on the basis of accusation—not necessarily of any political violence, but potentially even political speech.
"Terror" has been legally construed to include nonviolent expressive activities—such as picketing the homes of bio-tech executives or coordinating communications with groups in foreign countries. Because of this overly broad definition, the authority to militarily detain terror suspects without trial would include the authority to militarily detain dissidents, indefinitely and without trial. Because constitutionally protected speech and protest actions are now considered terrorist-related, any power the government uses to target al-Qaeda operatives can also be used to target direct action activists.
Sections 1031-1033 of Senate Bill 1253 are an assault on the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the US Constitution.
As noted by the president, secretary of defense, FBI director, and chairs of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, these provisions would also harm national security by cutting out our nation's most expert criminal investigators, and replacing them with military jailers for whom detaining US citizens is both unfamiliar and unwelcome.
Public officials swear oaths to the Constitution. Senators should consider what the Constitution actually means, and accordingly vote to allow the president's veto, and to support an alternative version of the NDAA without the provisions for military detention. Congress was created to check and balance executive power—not expand and entrench it. And with so many constitutional principles at stake, it would be a grave mistake to allow these sweeping government powers without even a single congressional hearing.
Dejavo...yes,I saw that before.I was born and raised in Soviet Russia until escaped that nightmare in 1989.I saw any kind of brutality,police,KGB(not the army) and now same stuff going on here in my New Country (I'm proud citizen of USA).Only here they went farther,they will involve army against own people.Well my friends,this time I will not run away,I will fight for my and other countryman Rights.These Rights was earned with blood and now I will give my blood and life for FREEDOM!!!!!
98521frukt 2 months ago 11
Sadly Americans care more about who Justin Bieber kissed last night then they do about there own rights and freedom's
kuruki213 1 month ago