The Case Against the NDAA: Lawyer for Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky & Daniel Ellsberg

From the Majority Report, live M-F 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM:
Our interview with Bruce Afran, lawyer for Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky & Daniel Ellsberg in the case against the NDAA.

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[CmdrSloanne]

We are becoming a Fascist Totalitarian Police State like old Nazi Germany,Mussolini's Italy back during WWII.etc.... we now have more in common with China,Iran,Saudi Arabia,North Korea & other totalitarian regimes,than our democratic allies.

[dwbkmj]

To think about this is mind boggling that a Constitutional Law Professor [President Obama] continues to trample on civil liberties and continues to grow the power of the Executive Branch. If you use illegal drugs, i.e. Marijuana, you could be indirectly funding terrorism and the Government [President Obama] has the power to, spy on you without warrant, imprison indefinitely, and ultimately execute you. America's #1, were #1, were #1...

[IamForever42]

Micheal Jordon of Tyranny. Good one.

[heavybones]

Good point. The amazing thing about Obama's brand of tyranny/ overreaching of govt power etc. is that very few people seem to raise any objection to it. He is naturally gifted at it beyond anything I am aware of since Hitler. He is the Micheal Jordon of Tyranny.

[IamForever42]

Democracy dies only when the people let it! Not that we had a democracy 2 begin with. Still, we were coming close, several times, & now we're declining down, & we're falling into a worst pit of tyranny our country, & perhaps the human race, has ever faced. The fact the NDAA rips up the Magna Carta should tell every1 how historic these times R. That charters was issued in1215ad. When will the Revolution come that'll save us from ourselves & people, worse, who take advantage of our weaknesses! >:(

[IamForever42]

Democracy fails when nobody holds their elected officials accountable, and then beggin seeing differences, and no similarities, and starts pointing the finger at the people they think are different than there super star. This was bound to happen. If they can pull off a war on drugs, then they can pull off anything. Am I wrong? Aren't we getting what we deserve for being appathetic and scared of our right to choose, or right to self ownership? This is why people like Obama get elected.

[IamForever42]

Let us hope that the coming psycho tyrant isn't one that'll put us to sleep. This would be perfect for a straight up psychopathic individual. The system makes people psychopathic because it is psychopathic. I just can't wait for some one to rise up, sweep people off their feet, and start scaring and killing people in the massess, and actually loving it, because there was a brilliant and manevalent politician who kept the left down when the left was most needed. Maybe Obama is a natural psycho>:(

[IamForever42]

The left, sadly, only wakes up when it's someone they don't like, i.e. when a Republican Tyrant is in power. Then they go play after electing an Anti Christ politician. I fell for it in 2008 and could cry in anger that I helped get this man in power. Actually presidents are directly elected. There is an electrit. Still, after one year of him being president I stopped voting democrat and voted Ron Paul then Green Party. Let's face it, Democrats like Obama are the more effective evil.

[IamForever42]

When I'm lazy I tend to not spell well. Seems I'm lazy most of the time. Seems lazyness is the problem. LOL!

[IamForever42]

Yup gotta have respect 4 power, unfortunately the power 1 most respects is the power that is most frightning. I.E. Hitler & Obama. Interesting that people say that tyrant Bush2 was like Hitler, when he never got elected. Bush was hated 4 the shit he did. Obama is elected sweeping the people with him in a historic election & hypnotizes them while working 2 make sure we become a straight up totalitarian state where the president can kill u if wants. It seems Obama is more like Hitler after all.

[IamForever42]

Wow! I never thought of it that way with the whole drug thing.

[heavybones]

The framework for Tyranny has been carefully laid out. Obama has been brilliant in convincing so many sheep to do nothing when he tramples their individual liberties; much like Hitler and Mussolini were brilliant. On one hand I marvel at their abilities to do it. On the other hand it scares me shitless.