Rand Paul on "Indefinite Detention" Provision of Defense Authorization Act : 11/29/11

Rand Paul Aims to Kill "Indefinite Detention" Provision of Controversial Bill

Head of Japanese American Citizens League warns that bill has echoes of World War II-style internment without charge

With the bill expected to be up for a vote within 48 hours, Senator Rand Paul has offered an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that will kill a provision allowing the military to detain individuals, including American citizens, without trial or due process.

The "indefinite detention" sections of the NDAA bill would turn the whole of the United States into a "battlefield" and hand the executive branch the power to have the military arrest U.S. citizens and hold them without trial.

The provision is merely an update to the "parallel legal system" had been in place under the auspices of the war on terror for over a decade, "In which terrorism suspects — U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike — may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system," as the Washington Post reported in December 2002.

In attempt to kill the indefinite detention provision of the legislation, Senator Rand Paul aims to strike Section 1031 from the bill, which reads as follows.

"Congress affirms that the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force...includes the authority for the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons...Detention under the law of war without trial".

The amendment is seen as having more teeth than a change offered by Colorado Senator Mark Udall which the ACLU has urged voters to support. "There are other similar Amendments too, however none of them completely eliminate the Constitutionally offensive section," reports the Tennessee Campaign for Liberty website.

Writing in the Washington Post today, Udall emphasizes the fact that the bill does affect American citizens.

"The provisions would require the military to dedicate a significant number of personnel to capturing and holding terrorism suspects — in some cases indefinitely — even those apprehended on U.S. soil. And they authorize the military to do so regardless of an accused terrorist's citizenship, even if he or she is an American captured in a U.S. city," writes Udall.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash also warned that the bill had been "carefully crafted to mislead the public," in suggesting that the indefinite detention provision didn't apply to American citizens when it clearly does.

"Note that it does not preclude U.S. citizens from being detained indefinitely, without charge or trial, it simply makes such detention discretionary," Amash wrote on his Facebook page.

As we documented yesterday, every single piece of legislation passed in the name of catching terrorists has been used against American citizens on countless occasions.

In an op-ed for the SIlicon Valley Mercury News, S. Floyd Mori, national executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League, warns that the legislation would create the legal framework for internment without trial on a similar scale to how Japanese-Americans were held in concentration camps during World War II.

"Indefinite detentions based on fear-driven and unlawfully substantiated national security grounds, where individuals are neither duly charged nor fairly tried, violate the essence of U.S. law and the most fundamental values upon which this country was built," he writes.

The National Defense Authorization Act is set for a procedural vote at midday on Wednesday.

http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-aim...

Bill Text link:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z...

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[TheNova1960]

It's time for King Obama and his Royal Court who passed the NDAA to be arrested for TREASON! Why isn't Congress pushing for an impeachment?

[Mat Nazarian]

I suspect you of terrorism! Time for a Cockmeat Sandwich!

[alegend4evr]

Anyone else getting sick of losing our constitutional rights?

First gun control being pushed, they dont understand that guns bought to kill people are black market products

Then NDAA, yeah this sounds really familiar, maybe several British kings and Stahlin ring a goddamn bell, im russian and luckily wasnt born into that (Now in the U.S.)

Then congress & Obama exampting them selves from passed bills

the gov't is only grabbing all our power, so fuck this country till it straightens up!

[RonPaul2012Anon4evr]

there is so much damn dis-info on the web, I dont know what to accept as truth anymore,

watch?feature=player_embedded&­v=zK15A_VFnIU#!

The link above also includes the link of his supposed explaination for signing..I still dont trust him, I still think hes a little sellout bitch.

[JarrodES13]

He actually didn't...

[RonPaul2012Anon4evr]

Rand can sucka dick, fucker signed the NDAA for 2013..fucktard

[Requiescat inpace]

You just sound crazy with the caps on.

[XmantesX]

What's with the caps lock. Just type lower case -_-

[Julie Tucker]

SAD THIS ACTUALLY PASSED BY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, HURTS ALLEN WEST FOR SURE AS HE ALSO SUPPORTED THIS AND OTHERS LIKE ROMNEY TOO, WHY IN GODS NAME DIDNT THEY READ THE BILL AND LISTEN TO RAND PAUL ONLY HONEST PERSON I THINK EVEN LEFT IN WASHINGTON NOW WE NEED HIM NOW AND THE FUTURE FOR SURE

[irival]

Kick some ass Rand!!!

[karinkdf]

Really? Rand Paul on "Indefinite Detention"... the amendment his Republican Tea Bag Party attached to the National Defense Authorization Bill (you know, the funding bill that has to be passed so that our soldiers receive their paychecks)? Talk about sabotage.

This is hysterical coming from John Birch, Jr.