The fact that the mainstream media hasn't mentioned this is very scary:
"The broadcast media's ignorance and unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the US homeland as a 'battlefield' and makes US citizens subject to military apprehension and detainment for life without access to a trial or attorney, is unacceptable." - David Seamen, Business Insider
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-medias-blackout-of-the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-shameful-2011-1
President Obama's response: http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/obama-threatens-veto-of-defense-authorization-bill-20111117
Here is the most recent news on the matter: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/12/occupy_portland_protesters_mar.html
My thinking in posting this is that it screams of the McCarthyism of the 1950s in which anybody suspected of being a Communist could be blacklisted from American popular society. Today, if you and I are accused of something in this country, we get a trial. Opponents claim that under the wording of the proposed NDAA, if we are merely suspected of being a terrorist, that might not happen; and while I don't feel I'm in any direct danger of being accused of terrorism, the premise of this bill is still scary as all Orwellian hell.
Please pass this on as media seems to be shying away from what appears to be a mammoth civil rights issue.
Until next time... keep enjoying Reblog Rerun Month and as always... roll on!
"The broadcast media's ignorance and unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the US homeland as a 'battlefield' and makes US citizens subject to military apprehension and detainment for life without access to a trial or attorney, is unacceptable." - David Seamen, Business Insider
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-medias-blackout-of-the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-shameful-2011-1
President Obama's response: http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/obama-threatens-veto-of-defense-authorization-bill-20111117
Here is the most recent news on the matter: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/12/occupy_portland_protesters_mar.html
My thinking in posting this is that it screams of the McCarthyism of the 1950s in which anybody suspected of being a Communist could be blacklisted from American popular society. Today, if you and I are accused of something in this country, we get a trial. Opponents claim that under the wording of the proposed NDAA, if we are merely suspected of being a terrorist, that might not happen; and while I don't feel I'm in any direct danger of being accused of terrorism, the premise of this bill is still scary as all Orwellian hell.
Please pass this on as media seems to be shying away from what appears to be a mammoth civil rights issue.
Until next time... keep enjoying Reblog Rerun Month and as always... roll on!
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