‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill Heads To Obama’s Desk As White House Drops Veto Threat
Establishment media and neo-cons still pretend NDAA doesn’t apply to American citizens
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
UPDATE: Obama has dropped his threat to veto the bill and is now expected to sign it into law. Remember – it was Obama’s White House that demanded the law apply to U.S. citizens in the first place.
The bill which would codify into law the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens is about to be passed and sent to Obama’s desk to be signed into law, even as some news outlets still erroneously report that the legislation does not apply to U.S. citizens.
“The House on Wednesday afternoon approved the rule for the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), setting up an hour of debate and a vote in the House later this afternoon,” reports the Hill.
Mainstream news outlets like The Hill, as well as neo-con blogs like Red State, are still pretending the indefinite detention provision doesn’t apply to American citizens, even though three of the bill’s primary sponsors, Senator Carl Levin, Senator John McCain, and Senator Lindsey Graham, said it does during speeches on the Senate floor.
“It is not unfair to make an American citizen account for the fact that they decided to help Al Qaeda to kill us all and hold them as long as it takes to find intelligence about what may be coming next,” remarked Graham. “And when they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’”
As Levin said last week, it was the White House itself that demanded Section 1031 apply to American citizens.
“The language which precluded the application of Section 1031 to American citizens was in the bill that we originally approved…and the administration asked us to remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section,” said Levin, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
Senator McCain also told Rand Paul during a hearing on the bill that American citizens could be declared an enemy combatant, sent to Guantanamo Bay and detained indefinitely, “no matter who they are.”
Quite how those still in denial could even entertain the notion that the bill would not apply to American citizens when the Obama administration is already enforcing a policy of state assassination and killing American citizens it claims are “terrorists,” without having to present any evidence or go through any legal process, is beyond naive.
With the White House having largely resolved its concerns with the bill, which had nothing to do with the ‘indefinite detention’ provision, Obama could put pen to paper as early as tomorrow on a law that if recognized will nullify the bill of rights – ironically tomorrow is “Bill of Rights Day”.
RELATED: The Indefinite Detention Bill DOES Apply to American Citizens on U.S. Soil
| By Judi McLeod Thursday, December 15, 2011
Obama’s well covered by mainstream media threat to veto what can only be described as Soviet Union Horror Come to America, was only the drama he could milk during the Final Act. This bill represents the most daring Marxist monstrosity of the 21st century: The Defence Funding bill will allow American citizens to be arrested as terrorists on home turf to be ‘disappeared’ forever without rule-of-law trial. With this draconian bill, Obama not only gets to silence all dissent against him by instilling the fear of dissident arrest in everyday people trying to save their beloved country from its fundamental transformation, he gets to do what has long been his coveted intent: a way to engender population hatred for its military. Patriots, who long clung to the hope that in the end the US military would be on the side of the people, will now live in the real fear of being nabbed off their streets by the military and packed off to Gitmo. The effects of this bill on American society are truly monstrous and were birthed by someone with a never-ending evil hatred of America and its people. That the Bill to Disappear Americans by Bureaucracy came into being with a 93-7 vote transcends anything ever said by any talking head, or conspiracy theorist about the existing fellowship that exists between Republicans and Democrats. The bill is bottom-line irrefutable proof that all politicians of all stripes, perhaps even including so-called Libertarians, work against the people they are paid to represent. One site aptly pegged the “seven champions of liberty” who voted against the bill, champions of liberty “for the moment”. (Moral Low Ground) High-flown speeches and rhetoric won’t get a fair trial for anyone the Obama regime ID’s as a terrorist enemy of the state. If the regime can send to a concentration camp any who work against it, there is no longer any need for Obama to take the risk of imposing martial law before suspending elections. Instead he has found a novel way of guaranteeing his re-election before a single vote is even cast. The story of how the bill was passed as revealed to the masses in real time is a also a story in itself. It came nine days before Christmas 2011. Screaming headlines trying to warn the masses came not from the American media, but from the British one. Early this morning Drudge ran Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climbdown by the guardian.co.uk. Only two American stories followed the Guardian one. CBS News: WH OKs military detention of terrorism suspects, followed by Infowars.com Patrick Joseph Watson’s story, which included an update about how Obama had dropped his threat to veto the bill. Drudge Report readers could see under all three stories how “Even Al Jazeera asks ‘How Did We Get Here’? Freedom was swallowed whole overnight. In a new, cruel Soviet Union-like Amerika, dissenters of the status quo will be easily and effectively disappeared. And this morning for the 93 congressional lawmakers who made it happen, it’s just business as usual. |
It now becomes perfectly clear why Obama did not want to close down Guantánamo Bay. It’s the perfect place to ‘disappear’ his Tea Party enemies during Election Year.
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