{"id":9910,"date":"2011-12-13T02:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T02:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2011-12-13T02:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T02:24:29","slug":"new-bill-allows-military-to-detain-you-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/12\/new-bill-allows-military-to-detain-you-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bill Allows Military To Detain You Indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2891579-large.jpg\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9911\" title=\"2891579.large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2891579-large.jpg?resize=431%2C267\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"267\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">It\u2019s a bad sign when George W. Bush\u2019s defense team thinks that a military bill goes too far in violating your rights. But we\u2019ve got just that with the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act. This bill authorizes the military to <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/10\/abdulmutallab-rule-military-detention-terrorist-suspects\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">detain American citizens<\/span><\/a> indefinitely without giving them their Constitutional rights. Basically, if the military suspects that an American citizen has terrorist ties it can just throw them in military jail without the rights to habeas corpus, an attorney or just about anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Let\u2019s say that again \u2014 this new bill, which passed the Senate with an alarming majority, allows the military to arrest American citizens on American soil and keep them without trial. It\u2019s being called the \u201cAmerica the Battlefield\u201d bill, because it treats your front yard like a battlefield \u2014 and every citizen like a potential enemy. It basically puts a giant asterisk next to the Bill of Rights saying, \u201cunless we don\u2019t feel like it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">It\u2019s no wonder that former a Bush State Department adviser <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/12\/former-bush-officials-slam-mandatory-military-detention-bill\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">said that this bill<\/span><\/a> \u201cwould likely have been as strongly opposed by the Bush administration as by the Obama administration.\u201d The same people who brought us waterboarding and the PATRIOT Act think that this is a step too far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In fact, the only people who think that this is a good idea are the people who voted for it in Congress, which has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/congressional-approval-is-down-to-staffers-and-relatives.html\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">approval rating<\/span><\/a> lower than that of BP during the oil spill or Hugo Chavez, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/congress-approval-problem-in-one-chart\/2011\/11\/15\/gIQAkHmtON_blog.html\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">just to name a few<\/span><\/a>. Even those who trying to see the law with an optimistic light, as Atlantic\u2019s Andrew Cohen does, can only concede that at best \u201cthe Senate avoided the worst result here.\u201d Not exactly ringing praise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Obama administration has <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/12\/white-house-serious-about-vetoing-defense-bill-over-detention\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">signaled that it might veto<\/span><\/a> this egregious attack on Americans\u2019 rights, but his decision is still up in the air. To let him know how important constitutional liberties are to them, thousands of people are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/892\/petition-to-impeach-all-senators-who-voted-for-us-is-a-battlefield-and-to-detain-us-citizens-without\/\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">petitioning the President<\/span><\/a> to veto the bill. If he fails to veto, it will likely go to the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Maybe it\u2019s not so bad \u2014 since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/the-story-of-stuff-creators-explain-citizens-united-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">corporations are people<\/span><\/a>, the government could just indefinitely detain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/occupy-wall-street-finds-goldman-sachs-guilty-in-mock-trial.html\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Goldman Sachs<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/new-bill-allows-military-to-detain-you-indefinitely.html\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Source.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a bad sign when George W. Bush\u2019s defense team thinks that a military bill goes too far in violating your rights. 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