Sunday, January 22, 2012

OBAMA’s most "historic" achievement is to bring the war on democracy home to America

OBAMA’s most "historic" achievement is to bring the war on democracy home to America. On New Year’s Eve, he signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a law that grants the Pentagon the legal right to kidnap both foreigners and US citizens and indefinitely detain, interrogate and torture, or even kill them. They need only "associate" with those "belligerent" to the United States. There will be no protection of law, no trial, no legal representation. This is the first explicit legislation to abolish habeas corpus (the right to due process of law) and effectively repeal the Bill of Rights of 1789.