(2 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette
As per Sen. Karl Levin, Obama requested that the language barring the indefinite detention of US citizens be removed from the National Defense Authorization Bill. This doesn’t exonerate Levin or the other 97 Senators who voted “aye” on this travesty of legislation.
We have only a few days to speak up to Congress before the President signs NDAA Section 1031, permitting citizen imprisonment without evidence or a trial. Congress plans to give it to him to sign by Dec 9. But if we act urgently to raise awareness among our friends, family, and colleagues, we can still prevent this. Here is what we can do:
1) Americans must know about this to stop it. Urgently pass this petition as widely as possible: http://www.change.org/petition… … – Contact the media by any means available to you. ZERO news stories have covered this Chairman Levin clip yet!
2) Congress can still block the law before December 9. Write and call your Representative and Senator telling them to stop NDAA Section 1031.
Contact your Representative: http://writerep.house.gov/writ…
Contact your Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/…3) Write and call the White House to tell the President you won’t sit by and watch NDAA Section 1031 become law: http://www.whitehouse.gov/cont…
4) Stay smart — To slow down journalists and concerned citizens, it appears Section 1032 was deliberately crafted to distract from Section 1031. However, section 1032 is NOT the citizen imprisonment law. Disturbingly, this confusion is helping Section 1031 to slip by the American people. Do NOT fall for the misdirection, stay informed and urgently work to stop NDAA Section 1031.
We need to stop Obama and Congress from trashing the Constitution.
Up Date 12.8.2011: The web site Lawfare has an excellent two part analysis and side by side comparison of the House and Senate versions of NDAA. Written by Benjamin Wittes, it is an enlightening read on the flaws of both bills:
As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two versions of the bill. People sometimes talk about the NDAA as though both houses are on the same track. And there are some similar themes. But the two bills are also quite different. And these difference give rise to opportunities in conference: opportunities to emerge with far better policy than either bill presents on its own, and opportunities for mischief as well.
In this pair of posts, which is organized thematically and loosely according to the sequence of provisions in the House version of the bill, I am going to do a kind of side-by-side analysis. In each section that follows, I will start with a discussion of the House bill, which is longer and more involved, then describe how the analogous Senate provision (if one exists) differs. I will then discuss what I think the optimal realistic policy outcome looks like given the two versions. I am not going to rehash the merits or lack thereof of the specific provisions, all of which we have discussed elsewhere. My point is simply to highlight where the Congress has a clear position and where the houses are reading from different playbooks.
The Senate version of the bill is available here (pdf), with the relevant section running from pp. 426-445. The House version of the bill is available here (pdf) and runs from pp. 567-603. As this will get long, I will break it up into two posts.
9 comments
Skip to comment form
Author
Super-corpo-fascist-exp-ali-docious!
I don’t know but I bin told
New World Order is real cold
911 and Northwoods too
Make a fine deceptive brew
Larry A hole….. Silverstein
Couldn’t pay asbestos fine
Set it up to
Drop em down
Hole in the Big Apple Town
Eisenhauer Bill and John
Warned us all but now their gone
Fiat money Madoffed me
Ponzi scam for all to see
401s for you and me
Built the Chinese Factory
Drywall dogfood kid toys too
Come back as a toxic brew
Bilderbergers came to town
Mortgaged it then burnt it down
Bill and Turner Holdren too
Think there are too many of you
Spanish flu and birdies too
Make a fine and deadly brew
Birther, bagger tin foil hatter
What you say don’t really matter
NSA knows all you say
Is the SWAT team on their way
Tazer me and VMAD you
Take your chip and cry Boohoo
Thank you Satan
Yes we can
Stuff em all into the van
Compliance is the way to be
Make em love their slavery
Too big to fail
Too big to big to see
Enron begat Sar-Oxley
Frisk my wife
And own my life
Global
Oligopoly
Myth for me a myth for you
Taliban and Qeada too
Bases tunnels great big towns
Way down deep beneath the ground
Spray all day and spray all night
Nothing there for you to sight
GMO and pharma too
Frankenfood for me and you
I don’t need no fucking raise
Cause I can see the end of days
If we should we make it through
Flying cars for me and you
He wants the power to imprison and murder U.S. citizens with ZERO due process. His only objection, and it’s a mild one at that, is that he doesn’t think Congress should be exercising any say in what the executive branch can or can’t do.
of the bill anyway. He can either veto the entire NDAA or not veto it.
He could issue a signing statement saying that he will not enforce a single section, but that would not bind any future president, democrat or republican.
His veto threat is more empty words from a master of empty words.
It was obvious as far back as at least 2007 what Obama is… and why he will not veto the NDAA:
For more on Obama’s foreign policy thinking, see:
Barack Obama, Resort to Force, and U.S. Military Hegemony(.PDF)
Harry van der Linden
Butler University, 1/1/2009
Obama is a dyed in the wool neocon, carrying on – no, expanding on – the full spectrum world dominance neocon policies of George Bush.
Bush would never have gotten away with the things Obama has hypnotized his supporters into praising him for.
People would be screaming for his impeachment in posts and comments on every non-right wing blog and site in the world.
Fascism Has No Chance in America
It comes as no surprise to me…not one iota! Meet the new boss…
In fact, He’s about to reveal Himself as the “God Particle” as early as next year! What’s the big deal with the “Bill of Rights” when you got a 5 billion dollar proton collider spittin out elementary particles, conveniently happening, just where John Calvin himself miraculously bumped into a few back in 1536?