US Totalitarianism Loses Major Battle As Judge Permanently Blocks NDAA's Military Det

[Large Sarge]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-totalitarianism-loses-major-battle-judge-permanently-blocks-ndaas-military-detention-provisi

[Glass]

Back in January, Pulitzer winning journalist Chris Hedges sued President Obama and the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (http://www.scribd.com/doc/78392113/NDAA-Official-Text), specifically challenging the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force or, the provision that authorizes military detention for people deemed to have "substantially supported" al Qaeda, the Taliban or "associated forces." Hedges called the president's action allowing indefinite detention, which was signed into law with little opposition from either party "unforgivable, unconstitutional and exceedingly dangerous."

He attacked point blank the civil rights farce that is the neverending "war on terror" conducted by both parties, targetting whom exactly is unclear, but certainly attaining ever more intense retaliation from foreigners such as the furious attacks against the US consulates in Egypt and Libya. He asked "why do U.S. citizens now need to be specifically singled out for military detention and denial of due process when under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force the president can apparently find the legal cover to serve as judge, jury and executioner to assassinate U.S. citizens."

A few months later, in May, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in favor of a temporary injunction blocking the enforcement of the authorization for military detention. Today, the war againt the true totalitarian terror won a decisive battle, when in a 112-opinion, Judge Forrest turned the temporary injunction, following an appeal by the totalitarian government from August 6, into a permanent one.


What is ironic, is that in the ongoing absolute farce that is the theatrical presidential debate, there hasn't been one word uttered discussing precisely the kind of creeping totalitarian control, and Orwellian loss of constitutional rights, that the biparty-supported NDAA would have demanded out of the US republic. Why? Chris Hedges said it best:


The oddest part of this legislation is that the FBI, the CIA, the director of national intelligence, the Pentagon and the attorney general didn’t support it. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he feared the bill would actually impede the bureau’s ability to investigate terrorism because it would be harder to win cooperation from suspects held by the military. “The possibility looms that we will lose opportunities to obtain cooperation from the persons in the past that we’ve been fairly successful in gaining,” he told Congress.

And I suspect it passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the Occupy movement will expand, do not trust the police to protect them. They want to be able to call in the Army. And now they can.




I think the last sentence in the quote is the money shot.

[mamboni]

I think the last sentence in the quote is the money shot.

I agree. But then again, one wonders if the Elite shouldn't be more afraid of the army, as in Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. It is interesting how Ron Paul enjoys such dominant support amongst members of the armed forces.

[JDRock]

I agree. But then again, one wonders if the Elite shouldn't be more afraid of the army, as in Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. It is interesting how Ron Paul enjoys such dominant support amongst members of the armed forces.true, but OUR army will be far away dying for izzy, while the un becomes the army they use....

[mamboni]

true, but OUR army will be far away dying for izzy, while the un becomes the army they use....

Good point.

[PlatinumBlonde]

true, but OUR army will be far away dying for izzy, while the un becomes the army they use....

Whatever 'army' they use, it will be non white..as those non whites can be counted upon to fire on what is percieved to be the true threat to the fed/corp/gov..

[midnight rambler]

Whatever 'army' they use, it will be non white..as those non whites can be counted upon to fire on what is percieved to be the true threat to the fed/corp/gov..

Shades of Tiananmen Square - when what were clearly troops of the same ethnicity as the student protesters wouldn't confront the student protesters, Mongolian troops were brought in to replace them. There was a VERY clear distinction in ethnicity - AND in the way the responded to the protesters friendly gestures - and those troops had no issues whatsoever with running over the protesters with tanks.

[General of Darkness]

We're just worker drones that mean NOTHING.

[iOWNme]

Really? Because Government ALWAYS follows the Law.

I could show you Supreme Court rulings that say that the income tax is unconstitutional, only gold and silver are money, armament ownership may not be infringed, protesting in public is lawful, having a church that is not 501c3 is Lawful and so on........

Dont hold your breath that this ruling will stop criminals from doing whatever the fuck they want to. What are you going to do about it?