NDAA, Patriot Act, and DHS: Welcome to the Police State of America!

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NDAA, Patriot Act, and DHS: Welcome to the Police State of America!
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President Obama, despite earlier promises to veto it, will sign the
National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA). The NDAA contains
dangerous provisions concerning indefinite detention of suspects
without trial, and is yet another tool of “legal” repression with the
Patriot Act and the omnipresent Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
to crack down on basic human rights and  civil liberties. It takes the
United States away from the rule of law, and  a step further towards a
fascist system where “order” and repression  is the number one
priority.
In one of his typical flip-flops, President Obama originally said he
would veto the Levin/McCain bill, but instead he announced two days
ago that he would sign the controversial NDAA into law. Human rights
and civil rights organizations worldwide are up in arms against the
bill. The ACLU, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have all
condemned the NDAA in the strongest terms.
According to the ACLU, the NDAA will authorize all future US
presidents to order the military to imprison people indefinitely
without charging them of any wrong doings or putting them on trial.
The NDAA will aslo give unlimited war authority to the US executive
branch of government. The ACLU also says that the provisions of the
NDAA are inconsistent with fundamental American values embodied in the
US Constitution, and that the bill is an”unacceptable attack on
fundamental freedoms”. The far reaching detainee provisions in the
NDAA, codify indefinite detention without trial into US law for the
first time since the McCarthy era. In 1950, the US Congress overrode
the veto of president Truman to pass the Internal Security Act.
“By signing this defense bill, President Obama will go down in history
as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial into
US law. It is a sad moment when a president who has prided himself on
his knowledge of and belief in constitutional principles succumbs to
the politics of the moment to sign a bill that poses so great of a
threat to basic constitutional rights,” said Kenneth Roth, executive
director of Human Rights Watch. Roth added that president Obama cannot
“justify this serious threat to basic rights on the basis of
security”. Roth further argued that the signing of the  NDAA will
provoke a “global outrage that will delight recruiters of terrorists”.
Amnesty International is also vehemently criticizing the NDAA. “The
NDAA enshrines the war paradigm that has eroded the United States
human rights record and served it so poorly over the past decade as
the country’s primary counter-terrorism tool. In doing so, the NDAA
provides a frame work for ‘normalizing’ indefinite detention and
making Guantanamo a permanent feature of American life. This
legislation establishes a two track system of justice by
distinguishing between US persons- citizens and resident aliens- and
foreign nationals. It is a betrayal of the most fundamental principles
of justice and equality before the law,” said Amnesty International’s
Tom Parker.





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