12/16/11

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Exactly 220 years to the date after the Bill of Rights was ratified, the US Senate today voted 86 to 13 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, allowing the indefinite detention and torture of Americans. - After a back-and-forth in recent days between both the Senate and House yielded intense criticism from Americans attempting to hold onto their Constitutional rights, NDAA FY2012 is now on its way to the White House, where yesterday the Obama administration revealed that the president would not veto the legislation, cancelling out a warning he offered less than a month earlier. Obama has finally brought about change to America, but it’s nothing to be hopeful about.

John Glaser: Congress Passes Defense Bill Codifying Indefinite Detention
Stephen Lendman: Obama Approves Draconian Police State Law
Paul Craig Roberts: We Have a Republican Party That Is a Gestapo Party - Video [December 3, 2011]
Andrew P. Napolitano: The Government as Lawbreaker, Again
Elite Multimedia: 40 Members of Congress Protest ‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill

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