President Obama signs indefinite detention bill into law
January 2, 2012
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed by President Obama into law Dec. 31, contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision.
“The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield,” said ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero.
The ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war, according to the ACLU statement.
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by dolphid
How the fuck does the President believe he can overthrow the constitution simply because he and the corrupt forces of power he represents feels it is in THEIR best interests to hold the powerful option. Who is fighting this sick destruction of our Bill of Rights and who is standing up to it. All the Congress has been bought and the Supreme Court so what’s a person to do?