Been thinking about NDAA all week...
Why the NDAA petrifies me on so many levels.
First a question: Why they are so quick to almost unanimously and without the usual partisan politics pass this bill so quickly?
Flying it through both House & Senate...
They haven't even been able to pass a budget for 2 years.
But they can cross party lines & throw my rights out the window in record time?
Something doesn't smell right....Not in the least.
The detention, denial of due process is so UN-American (full stop) it ignores the fundamental protections (thoughtfully deliberated over MANY revisions, letters etc)
granted by design of the US Constitution & Bill of Rights.
An Example:
Susan visits <XXXX> City in<XXXX> State
The Police, DHS <insert various agency here> (violating Posse Comitatus : (before SOPA gets rid of it here's a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act)
The Police, DHS <insert various agency here> (violating Posse Comitatus : (before SOPA gets rid of it here's a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act)
"think" she is <XXXX, with a completely unclear definition of what XXXX is...What is, is?>
OR may have relationship or association with <XXXX>
So they "snatch" her up to assumably PROTECT YOU (see next post for whistleblower rant).
"They" don't allow her to make a phone call, retain counsel etc.
(deny her due process:The Fifth Amendment provides in part that
No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law)
Detain her (Deny Her Habeas Corpus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus),
for as long as they want, (she never has the opportunity to prove her innocence)
She is denied due process, and essentially disappears.
There for as long they feel like it... That is barbaric, unjust and Un American.
There for as long they feel like it... That is barbaric, unjust and Un American.
Regardless of if you are an American citizen or not.
(This is what has set us apart on the International level for many years.)
If the suspect is not a US citizen deport to home country.
If the suspect is not a US citizen deport to home country.
On what grounds do we now stand on the international stage when hikers, corporate employees, international aid workers, your college age backpacking kids are snatched and imprisoned, they disappear?
Because they are suspected as "spy's" aka enemy combatants <insert that viscous XXXX here>....you, their parents, employers, NGO's argue for their release. The hikers in (Iran), the aid workers(various countries) were recovered.
Because they are suspected as "spy's" aka enemy combatants <insert that viscous XXXX here>....you, their parents, employers, NGO's argue for their release. The hikers in (Iran), the aid workers(various countries) were recovered.
Until now.
Please tell me, why would the KSA release a US citizen from their detention center when NOW you have detained their SUSPECTED citizen without any rights?
You will deny anyone who enters The US the same? Secret prisons for detention of ANYONE w/ out due process is WRONG!
So next time I travel, if I get picked up, thrown in "detention", potentially tortured (maybe raped, water boarded etc.) bcse I'm "suspect"of being a conscientious objector, spy, blonde, non believer, hiker, wrong religion etc it's OK for them to keep me detained? Who will fight for me?
They will deny ME due process, a phone call, lawyer etc because that is what happens to their citizens in AMERICA when they come here! I have traveled to many places over the years. Knowing that if I disappeared The US State Department had a good network and diplomatic relations to ensure I wouldn't just disappear and they would try to get out.
You will deny anyone who enters The US the same? Secret prisons for detention of ANYONE w/ out due process is WRONG!
So next time I travel, if I get picked up, thrown in "detention", potentially tortured (maybe raped, water boarded etc.) bcse I'm "suspect"of being a conscientious objector, spy, blonde, non believer, hiker, wrong religion etc it's OK for them to keep me detained? Who will fight for me?
They will deny ME due process, a phone call, lawyer etc because that is what happens to their citizens in AMERICA when they come here! I have traveled to many places over the years. Knowing that if I disappeared The US State Department had a good network and diplomatic relations to ensure I wouldn't just disappear and they would try to get out.
Where is that incentive the next time?
This is a complete atrocity on so many levels! This is not a solution this is a failure of statesmanship and society.
THIS is UN AMERICAN
This is a complete atrocity on so many levels! This is not a solution this is a failure of statesmanship and society.
THIS is UN AMERICAN
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