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-aims-to-kill-indefinite-detention-provision...

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[buckstitched]

@WallStwizkid - You are either a troll or someone who knows nothing about history. Most of our problems would be solved if we followed the Constitution. So go ahead and call people like AJ crackpots, laugh at those who are man enough to defend this republic, while you give up your guns (like you have any anyway), and suck up to the government, licking their boots. I have not forgotten the dangers that were posed on 9-11, but sure we disagree on who is posing that danger.

[sestalker73]

This is Fucked Up People! WTF!? It is time to scream and shout. Protest. Occupy. Take Back! Im 38, white piece of bread- nothing special. I do not wear foil hats. I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories. But it's all here now in Black and white. There are either completely idiotic people letting this happen or something / someone behind the scene pulling the strings.

Ron Paul 2012 or Bust.

[leraymond777]

God bless you Senator Paul! :-)

[ninker1000]

This is so freakin crazy

[wheredidileavemycell]

PREPARE!

[TashaMethusa]

"Adhering unflinchingly to the truth is stronger than responding with violent means. " M. Ghandi

[drac060]

thanks for the video

[Jbrabble]

I'm a veteran, if you don't like the constitution then gtfo. This is my country, the constitution is the supreme law of the land. Period. Educate yourself

[MultiSr16]

this new law is so bad......even this speech by Rand Paul is considered supporting terrorism under the NDAA !!! its tooo late America..., Ron Paul 2012 or ______ !!! Sorry., can't say it., dont wanna go to Gitmo.., !!

[eyescreamcake]

@z28west The NDAA didn't give the government the ability to detain people without trial. The 2001 AUMF did. Barbara Lee opposed the AUMF because she knew it would give the government a blank check to attack people without due process, but Ron Paul voted for it. He's just as responsible for this. When the terrorists attack, Ron Paul wets his pants and enacts martial law just like any other politician scum.