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From today's Wash. POst-Nice summary of 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free
Assassination of U.S. citizens
Indefinite detention
Arbitrary justice
Warrantless searches
Secret evidence
War crimes
Secret court
Immunity from judicial review
Continual monitoring of citizens
Extraordinary renditions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html
MadHound
(34,179 posts)The War on Crime, the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism. . .
All they really accomplish is War on the American People.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)and nobody challenges him, we really are in trouble.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Yavapai
(825 posts)But, time will tell.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Ok, it was not the Washington Post itself (which has advanced the cause of destroying freedom), but at least they ran Turley's opinion piece.
applegrove
(118,609 posts)That is slavery.
militarization of the police.
Sadly, the terrorists (and plutocrats) really have won.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)...so its only fair to say that "the war" is really the problem, and focus efforts toward a remedy on ending the war. I'd like to see every candidate running for office next year hit up for their plan and position on that.
Its also fair to say that people in other countries are sometimes amused to hear how un-free we think we are. Things could be better (and the above suggestion is a serious one), but even while working toward our own betterment, there is much that we could do to encourage freedom in other countries that are far from our own standard.
ed - sp.
NorthCarolina
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(72,631 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)midnight
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He signed it. Well fight it.
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law. It contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision.
The dangerous new law can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. He signed it. Now, we have to fight it wherever we can and for as long as it takes.
Sign the ACLU's pledge to fight worldwide indefinite detention for as long as it takes.
Im outraged that the statute President Obama signed into law authorizes worldwide military detention without charge or trial. I pledge to stand with the ACLU in seeking the reversal of indefinite military detention authority for as long as it takes.
And I will support the ACLU as it actively opposes this new law in court, in Congress, and internationally.
Signed,
[your name]https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?s_subsrc=120103_NDAA_mar&pagename=120103_NDAAGOLAsk&JServSessionIdr004=12gea4nm71.app224a
cyglet
(529 posts)it would stand up in court at all, but who knows.