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  “ the new law will give the right to have the U.S. military basically make any American citizen “disappear” for offenses that are never even made public. Also, if a friend or family publicizes of your disappearance, they also will be detained. Radio host Ralph Schoenman says “if anybody helps you with a taxi ride or attempts to give assistance to your family in the circumstances of your disappearance, they too can be detained. THIS is the architecture of the fascist state.”

Final Step to Fascism? National Defense Authorization Act Passes

Posted by Mike Tirone – Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Say goodbye to your civil liberties, folks.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be put into law this week in Washington, D.C.

This new law has had the most unique coverage of any political act in years. Some mainstream media outlets have “covered” it, when merely scratching the surface, while other networks have blatantly chosen to ignore it. Either way there are a lot of misconceptions about this bill, which was put together by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and GOP Sen. John McCain.

Here is what this Act entails:

1) mandates that all accused Terrorists be indefinitely imprisoned by the military rather than in the civilian court system

2) permits (note it does not mandate) that U.S. citizens on American soil accused of Terrorism be held by the military rather than charged in the civilian court system

3) renews the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) which allows force and military detention against those involved in the 9/11 attacks and countries that harbor them, as well as anyone who “substantially supports” Al Qaeda, the Taliban or “associated forces”

4) imposes new restrictions on the U.S. Government’s ability to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo Bay

So aside from the fact that we are ten years out of the 9/11 attacks, Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is barely functioning, our current Congress has now begun poking at the fading flames. Bringing back what many are calling even more unconstitutional than the Patriot Act is not only a step, but a massive journey in the wrong direction. And all of it fueled from a bipartisan basis to not only re-affirm the war on terror but to expand it beyond necessary.

Essentially what the U.S. has done is declared that all of planet earth (including it’s VERY own country) is a battlefield for our military to engage in war forever upon.

The most revealing and unnerving part of this bill is explained by Glenn Greenwald:

The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) said last night that the bill contains “harmful provisions that some legislators have said could authorize the U.S. military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians, including American citizens, anywhere in the world” and added: “if President Obama signs this bill, it will damage his legacy.” Human Rights Watch said that Obama’s decision “does enormous damage to the rule of law both in the US and abroad” and that “President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law.”

And what is even more discouraging is the absolute 180-flip that President Obama has made on this bill, initially threatening to veto the Levin/McCain detention bill, and now signing it into law.

As Human Rights Watch put it: “President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in U.S. law.” Greenwald’s seconds the Human Rights Watch’s strong stance, “There is no partisan loyalty or leader-reverent propaganda strong enough to obscure that fact.”

Antiwar.com‘s John Glaser says that the White House explained it would veto the bill because mandating military custody lead to restricting the president’s authority. But once signed into law, it not only discredits the President and his reversal of veto but it shows that Obama feels more comfortable with the military’s decision making than his own.

Glaser continued, “But in truth it’s reasonable to assume that a veto threat was a mere political theater, because Senator Carl Levin one of the provision’s primary authors revealed during senate debate that it was the Obama administration itself who requested the inclusion of language mandating military detentions, including US citizens. So you could say the administration never changed their minds, it was just a sort of doing it for public consumption,”

If you inspect the legislation carefully, the new law will give the right to have the U.S. military basically make any American citizen “disappear” for offenses that are never even made public. Also, if a friend or family publicizes of your disappearance, they also will be obtained. Radio host Ralph Schoenman says “if anybody helps you with a taxi ride or attempts to give assistance to your family in the circumstances of your disappearance, they too can be detained. THIS is the architecture of the fascist state.”

When it comes to other political figureheads speaking out about the NDAA, many have kept quiet. But one man — one who is constantly muffled by the mainstream media — has voiced his opposition: presidential candidate Ron Paul.

“This is a giant step – this should be the biggest news going right now – literally legalizing martial law,” Paul said. “This is big, this step where they can literally arrest American citizens and put them away without trail… is arrogant and bold and dangerous!”

Paul has said to be incredibly surprised and mind-boggled that this bill has yet to be discussed in an recent GOP debates, despite its very provisions are harmful to the U.S. Constitution and the freedom of each and every American.

RT.com quotes Paul,

“Today it seems too easy that our government and our congresses are so willing to give up our liberties for our security,” Paul said during a presidential debate earlier this election season. “I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.”

Paul has also condemned the Patriot Act for crushing the freedoms of Americans, while top-tier candidate and former-House Speaker Newt Gingrich has insisted on finding a “balancing act between our individual liberties and security.”

But the key takeaway from this kafkaesque law is not its specific provisions or complete decimation of civil liberties, but the fact that this war was never declared on a nation or tangible enemy. It is a war against an abstract idea, therefore there is no enemy to step down and no chance for this war to end. So strap in because this seems to be just the beginning.

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