Obama Signs Martial Law Bill - NDAA Now Law

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 is a law in the United States that was signed by President Barack Obama on December 31, 2011.The President issued a "signing statement" in conjunction with signing the bill into law. Although the White House and Senate sponsors maintain that the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) already grants presidential authority for indefinite detention, the Act legislatively codified the President's authority to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without trial as defined in Title X, Subtitle D, SEC 1021(a-e) of the law. Because those who may be held indefinitely include U.S. citizens arrested on American soil, and because that detention may be by the military, the Act has received critical attention by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and media sources.

Indefinite Detention without trial: Section 1021

Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002. In May 2006, the UN Committee against Torture condemned prisoners' treatment at Guantánamo Bay, noting that indefinite detention constitutes per se a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.

Pursuant to the AUMF passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the NDAA text affirms the President's authority to detain, via the Armed Forces, any person "who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces," under the law of war, "without trial, until the end of hostilities." The text also authorizes trial by military tribunal, or "transfer to the custody or control of the person's country of origin," or transfer to "any other foreign country, or any other foreign entity."[14] An amendment to the Act that would have explicitly forbidden the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens was rejected.[15]

Addressing previous conflict with the Obama Administration regarding the wording of the Senate text, the Senate-House compromise text also affirms that nothing in the Act "is intended to limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authority for Use of Military Force."

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[Columbasta]

Good people of America, don't stand idly by..

Repeat after me: RON PAUL 2012!

Cheers, from Amsterdam, Holland

[IMurderdTheDevil]

Do not Re-elect Barack Hussein Obama, HE IS A DICTATOR.

[joanarc1111]

 Please watch my story"TIFFANY LEBOUEF SEEKS JUSTICE". I have documents to prove my innocence yet no one wants to even acknowledge it. My life has been destroyed.

Look up PRISON STOCKS....very lucrative....WHO ARE THE INVESTORS???

I HOPE NOT THE JUDGES AND POLITICIANS.......

[TheSeun9]

loool ron paul will join them anyway , theres no point of voting trust me.

[timtapshickey]

Maybe the congress and the president know something we do not. They couldn't tell us if we are being seriously affected by Fukushima, because panic, looting and pandemonium would follow. "Obama Signs 'NDAA' Bill Allowing Arrests w/ no Warrants..." why would such a moderate president sign such a bill? To protect the majority of the USA? the rest of us... well we just might be Fukushima'd.

[argentina420]

RON PAUL VS. N.W.O.

[WilAzzamEdison]

HAHAHHAHA The Bill Expired on the 24th. Congress was not in session on the 29th ... Your all taken for a Shit Ride folks .

[ShortyRox425]

if there saying is isnt effecting the citizens then why pass it.? what would be the use? not to mention the congress and the presidential comittee need to stop pointing fingers and useing things to black mail each other and do what they believe is right. are founding fathers are rolling over in there graves. the youth, like me needs to get more involved. stop believing what u see on "fox news" and "cnn". go online and see all the opinons and make your own.

[CearyAuryn]

@IMurderdTheDevil I hope my aunt realizes this... she won't change her mind <,<