Original Looper 1
11-27-2011, 01:22 PM
If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad … Wait Until You See What Congress Wants to Do Next Week
The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, Davis, Oakland and elsewhere is bad enough.
But next week, Congress will vote on explicitly creating a police state.
The ACLU’s Washington legislative office explains:
The Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
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The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.
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The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself. The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday.
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I know it sounds incredible. New powers to use the military worldwide, even within the United States? Hasn’t anyone told the Senate that Osama bin Laden is dead, that the president is pulling all of the combat troops out of Iraq and trying to figure out how to get combat troops out of Afghanistan too? And American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged with a crime. Really? Does anyone think this is a good idea? And why now?
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In support of this harmful bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield” and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial “American citizen or not.” Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because “America is part of the battlefield.”
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The senators pushing the indefinite detention proposal have made their goals very clear that they want an okay for a worldwide military battlefield, that even extends to your hometown.
Part of an Ongoing Trend
While this is shocking, it is not occurring in a vacuum. Indeed, it is part of a 30 year-long process of militarization inside our borders and a destruction of the American concepts of limited government and separation of powers.
As I pointed out in May:
The ACLU noted yesterday [that] Congress is proposing handing permanent, world-wide war-making powers to the president – including the ability to make war within the United States:
Read the rest of the story at: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27886
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All this while our country's borders to the north and south remain practically wide open and unsecured for over 40 years but especially during the past 10 years when we are supposedly in a war on terrorism.
It's apparent now that Obama is paying for everything - endless war profiteering, amnesty for illegals and public union largeness - by devaluing our currency (aka printing press inflation) and by cutting Social Security and Medicare for the elderly private sector retiree taxpayers that have paid for everything. And he's doing it with the help of both parties in Congress that represent their global bankster masters.
Don't count on the gaggle of Republican presidential candidates to solve our country's problems as their proposed policies will only add to the depth of the wealth transfer from the working middle class Americans to the very top group of global banksters and corporate CEOs.
Where's the corporate neocon sponsored, liberal media when you really need it? Oh that's right, they're busy bringing us the latest updates on Lindsay Lohan, who won Dancing with the Stars and the latest sports scores.
As always, follow the money.
Regards,
Paul
The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, Davis, Oakland and elsewhere is bad enough.
But next week, Congress will vote on explicitly creating a police state.
The ACLU’s Washington legislative office explains:
The Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
***
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.
***
The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself. The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday.
***
I know it sounds incredible. New powers to use the military worldwide, even within the United States? Hasn’t anyone told the Senate that Osama bin Laden is dead, that the president is pulling all of the combat troops out of Iraq and trying to figure out how to get combat troops out of Afghanistan too? And American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged with a crime. Really? Does anyone think this is a good idea? And why now?
***
In support of this harmful bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield” and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial “American citizen or not.” Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because “America is part of the battlefield.”
***
The senators pushing the indefinite detention proposal have made their goals very clear that they want an okay for a worldwide military battlefield, that even extends to your hometown.
Part of an Ongoing Trend
While this is shocking, it is not occurring in a vacuum. Indeed, it is part of a 30 year-long process of militarization inside our borders and a destruction of the American concepts of limited government and separation of powers.
As I pointed out in May:
The ACLU noted yesterday [that] Congress is proposing handing permanent, world-wide war-making powers to the president – including the ability to make war within the United States:
Read the rest of the story at: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27886
****************************
All this while our country's borders to the north and south remain practically wide open and unsecured for over 40 years but especially during the past 10 years when we are supposedly in a war on terrorism.
It's apparent now that Obama is paying for everything - endless war profiteering, amnesty for illegals and public union largeness - by devaluing our currency (aka printing press inflation) and by cutting Social Security and Medicare for the elderly private sector retiree taxpayers that have paid for everything. And he's doing it with the help of both parties in Congress that represent their global bankster masters.
Don't count on the gaggle of Republican presidential candidates to solve our country's problems as their proposed policies will only add to the depth of the wealth transfer from the working middle class Americans to the very top group of global banksters and corporate CEOs.
Where's the corporate neocon sponsored, liberal media when you really need it? Oh that's right, they're busy bringing us the latest updates on Lindsay Lohan, who won Dancing with the Stars and the latest sports scores.
As always, follow the money.
Regards,
Paul