“…This section of the NDAA, signed into law by Obama on Dec. 31, 2011, obliterates some of our most important constitutional protections.
It authorizes the executive branch to order the military to seize U.S. citizens deemed to be terrorists or associated with terrorists.
Those taken into custody by the military, which becomes under the NDAA a domestic law enforcement agency, can be denied due process and habeas corpus – and held indefinitely in military facilities.
Any activist or dissident, whose rights were once protected under the First Amendment, can be threatened under this law with indefinite incarceration in military prisons – including our offshore penal colonies.
The very name of the law itself — the Homeland Battlefield Bill —
- suggests the totalitarian credo of endless war waged against enemies within “the homeland” as well as those abroad…”
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Chris Hedges: Criminalizing Dissent : Information Clearing House: ICH.
