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power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Monday, December 23, 2013

Ted Cruz - Congress just let Obama jail Americans withouta trial - again



You Have Just Been Fucked
  • Senator Ted Cruz has warned us that once again both parties have pissed all over the Constitution and voted to give Obama the power to have the military arrest American citizens and hold them without a trial or an attorney.
  • Liberals and Conservatives locked arms and voted yet again to abolish the Bill of Rights and your 6th Amendment right to a trial.


Once again huge majorities in both parties have proven they could care less about our freedoms.

In a vote that ended around 11:40 p.m. Thursday, the Senate voted 84-15 to pass the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) giving Comrade Obama the power to arrest you without a trial.

The measure passed the House last week 350-69.

Senator Ted Cruz said in a Facebook post Thursday:
Today I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act. I am deeply concerned that Congress still has not prohibited President Obama’s ability to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens arrested on American soil without trial or due process. 
The Constitution does not allow President Obama, or any President, to apprehend an American citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, and detain these citizens indefinitely without a trial. When I ran for office, I promised the people of Texas I would oppose any National Defense Authorization Act that did not explicitly prohibit the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens. Although this legislation does contain several positive provisions that I support, it does not ensure our most basic rights as American citizens are protected. 
I hope that next year the Senate and the House can come together in a bipartisan way to recognize the importance of our constitutional rights even in the face of ongoing terrorist threats and national security challenges. I look forward to working with my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee toward this common goal.

Last July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a September 2012 decision made by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest which ruled that Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA bill, the section authorizing the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, was unconstitutional. However, in less than 24 hours the Obama administration appealed the ruling.
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Joe Wolverton, II, J.D., writing for The New American, says the 2014 version of the bill additionally contains “frightening” provisions strengthening government surveillance powers under the Patriot Act, and will also “establish a center to be known as the ‘Conflict Records Research Center,’” whose goal it would be to compile a “digital research database including translations and to facilitate research and analysis of records captured from countries, organizations, and individuals, now or once hostile to the United States,” reports Infowars News.

The website Activist Post published the roll call vote results:




Over and over Congress has violated their oath of office.
All they care about is personal power and money.

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