by Chris Hedges
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February 11, 2013
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On Wednesday a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan where many huddled in the cold. The fate of the nation, we understood, could be decided by the three judges who will rule on our lawsuit against President Barack Obama for signing into law Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The section permits the military to detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, who “substantially support”—an undefined legal term—al-Qaida, the Taliban or “associated forces,” again a term that is legally undefined. Those detained can be imprisoned indefinitely by the military and denied due process until “the end of hostilities.” In an age of permanent war this is probably a lifetime. Anyone detained under the NDAA can be sent, according to Section (c)(4), to any “foreign country or entity.” This is, in essence, extraordinary rendition of U.S. citizens. It empowers the government to ship detainees to the jails of some of the most repressive regimes on earth.
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Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
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Chris Hedges NDAA update
wearechange·Feb 7, 2013
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Daniel Ellsburg on the NDAA Lawsuit
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Alexa O’Brien: NDAA Lawsuit Update
wearechangect·Feb 8, 2013
We Are Change CT was able to talk to Journalist & Activist Alexa O’Brien one of the 7 NDAA Plaintiffs on the NDAA court ruling, the War on Whistleblowers, the NDAA in relation to the Bradley Manning Case & more.
Cameraman: Steven Boutelle
Learn more about the NDAA here: http://www.stopndaa.org/
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NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake on the NDAA
wearechangect·Feb 8, 2013
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“The section permits the military to detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, who “substantially support”—an undefined legal term—al-Qaida, the Taliban or “associated forces,” again a term that is legally undefined.”
Just those few words ~ “support” plus “al-Qaida” plus “associated forces” ~ are therefore more than sufficient for the US administration to “detain” itself! Since when did they ever stop supporting “associated forces of al-Qaida?” From Afghanistan to Libya, to Syria and now out of Algeria and beyond. The absurdity of this legal charade beggars belief.
The facts in Syria alone provide not just sufficient, but unequivocal evidence of their very generous, continued and indeed unstinting support …so Mr Pres.Obama will have to arrest himself in the event this passes into “law.” Some law. Outlaw more like.
Exactly, David. A “do as I say, not as I do”.
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