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rabid1stI don't think most people are aware of the fact that Congress and the White House are conspiring to destroy an American's right to due process.
The right to due process is a keystone of our democracy, established in the Bill of Rights. You have a right to a trial by a jury of your peers. No one has a right to imprison an American indefinitely without the benefit of having his case impartially tried.
Our President is not a dictator or king. He cannot have us killed or imprisoned indefinitely without at trial, no matter the cause. Laws allowing such things are what led to every single Fascist state in existence. If you wonder how other countries ended up with people slaughtered in camps...well...here you go. We turned a blind eye and let our country set up the first encampment at Guantanamo and this is where it leads, even more violations of everyone's rights. We, also, let them set up this "conference committee" approach which keeps us from being properly represented.
Please act on this immediately, call the White House, no matter what your political affiliation. http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call#call
I would, also, urge you to remove from office any Congressperson who voted for this Bill. That would be almost EVERY Congressperson, by the way.
This letter I've copied explains all about the Bill...(or you can watch The Daily Show piece on it*).
Just in time for Bill of Rights Day, Congress has included in a massive war and weapons funding bill an authorization of presidents and the military to imprison you or anyone else without a trial or charge. . . forever.
Tell President Obama to veto the bill as soon as it reaches his desk.
The conference committee made changes to the bill to answer President Obama's concerns, not ours. The bill now leaves the president free to imprison or kill individuals without handing them over even to a military tribunal.
The White House calls this "flexibility." The authors of the Bill of Rights called it tyranny.
Demand that the President veto this outrageous bill, even though, unfortunately, Congress may have appeased the White House by making this provision even worse than it was.
*http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-december-7-2011-ralph-fiennes
The right to due process is a keystone of our democracy, established in the Bill of Rights. You have a right to a trial by a jury of your peers. No one has a right to imprison an American indefinitely without the benefit of having his case impartially tried.
Our President is not a dictator or king. He cannot have us killed or imprisoned indefinitely without at trial, no matter the cause. Laws allowing such things are what led to every single Fascist state in existence. If you wonder how other countries ended up with people slaughtered in camps...well...here you go. We turned a blind eye and let our country set up the first encampment at Guantanamo and this is where it leads, even more violations of everyone's rights. We, also, let them set up this "conference committee" approach which keeps us from being properly represented.
Please act on this immediately, call the White House, no matter what your political affiliation. http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call#call
I would, also, urge you to remove from office any Congressperson who voted for this Bill. That would be almost EVERY Congressperson, by the way.
This letter I've copied explains all about the Bill...(or you can watch The Daily Show piece on it*).
Just in time for Bill of Rights Day, Congress has included in a massive war and weapons funding bill an authorization of presidents and the military to imprison you or anyone else without a trial or charge. . . forever.
Tell President Obama to veto the bill as soon as it reaches his desk.
The conference committee made changes to the bill to answer President Obama's concerns, not ours. The bill now leaves the president free to imprison or kill individuals without handing them over even to a military tribunal.
The White House calls this "flexibility." The authors of the Bill of Rights called it tyranny.
Demand that the President veto this outrageous bill, even though, unfortunately, Congress may have appeased the White House by making this provision even worse than it was.
*http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-december-7-2011-ralph-fiennes
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Date: 2011-12-15 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 08:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 09:23 pm (UTC)I can't believe how many people seem to be like, "It's ok, President Obama's a good guy, he would never misuse this." a) using it at ALL is wrong, no matter the case, and b) "You remember the part where we have new presidents every 4-8 years, right?"
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Date: 2011-12-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-16 12:34 am (UTC)And it doesn't really matter to me either. All that should matter to anyone is that this is a power that should never be vested in one man. Not in America. And we have to ask how we are going to revoke it, if the President signs it into law.
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Date: 2011-12-16 05:44 am (UTC)