The Obama administration continues to defend its right to violate the
rights of the people it is supposed to govern. On August 6, Department
of Justice lawyers filed an appeal in federal court against a recent
ruling that temporarily enjoined section 1021 of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA), which gives powers to the military to
indefinitely detain U.S. citizens — on U.S. soil — without charge or
trial. The case, and the organizing that surrounds it, will have
profound implications for basic constitutional rights, though it has
been largely ignored by the mainstream media.
The so-called anti-terrorism legislation was signed on New Year’s Eve by President Barack Obama and went into effect on March 1, 2012. The NDAA had been the target of little public scrutiny in 2011, but after its passage both Congress and the Obama administration became targets of outrage among liberals and conservatives alike for the act’s alleged unconstitutionality.
On January 3, 2012, Occupy Wall Street organized a press conference on the steps of the New York Public Library, where a broad coalition of civil rights and legal groups condemned the NDAA as dangerous and unconstitutional. Activists then visited New York senators’ offices and, in a “spontaneous show of people power,” organized a flash mob in Grand Central Station to raise public awareness of the NDAA’s passage. Three were arrested for disorderly conduct. In Washington, D.C., more than 50 citizens were arrested in acts of civil disobedience at the White House in January (here and here).
Read more: http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/12984-fight-over-ndaas-police-state-provisions-continues-in-court
The so-called anti-terrorism legislation was signed on New Year’s Eve by President Barack Obama and went into effect on March 1, 2012. The NDAA had been the target of little public scrutiny in 2011, but after its passage both Congress and the Obama administration became targets of outrage among liberals and conservatives alike for the act’s alleged unconstitutionality.
On January 3, 2012, Occupy Wall Street organized a press conference on the steps of the New York Public Library, where a broad coalition of civil rights and legal groups condemned the NDAA as dangerous and unconstitutional. Activists then visited New York senators’ offices and, in a “spontaneous show of people power,” organized a flash mob in Grand Central Station to raise public awareness of the NDAA’s passage. Three were arrested for disorderly conduct. In Washington, D.C., more than 50 citizens were arrested in acts of civil disobedience at the White House in January (here and here).
Read more: http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/12984-fight-over-ndaas-police-state-provisions-continues-in-court
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