Dear (My Senator or Congressperson) and/or the ACLU and Cato Institute:
With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act Sections 1031-34, we have effectively lost Habeas Corpus in America. Anybody a president does not like, he can tell the Pentagon the person is a friend to the terrorists and ask the military to detain that person indefinitely and even send the person to a prison in the Jordanian or Saudi desert, with no lawyer ever knowing it happened.
This travesty was a bipartisan horror--Obama signed it, the Republican House and Democratic Senate both passed it.
We have seen this happen before--the Roman Republic; Weimar Germany--an economic crisis combines with an assault on the republic and the freedoms that make a country a republic are eroded then gone. Don't let us lose it. Take the case to the Supreme Court, as a bipartisan lawsuit. Urge the Court to declare that part of that Act Unconstitutional and null and void. God Save America, from ourselves.
Dear (My Senator or Congressperson) and/or the ACLU and Cato Institute:
With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act Sections 1031-34, we have effectively lost Habeas Corpus in America. Anybody a president does not like, he can tell the Pentagon the person is a friend to the terrorists and ask the military to detain that person indefinitely and even send the person to a prison in the Jordanian or Saudi desert, with no lawyer ever knowing it happened.
This travesty was a bipartisan horror--Obama signed it, the Republican House and Democratic Senate both passed it.
We have seen this happen before--the Roman Republic; Weimar Germany--an economic crisis combines with an assault on the republic and the freedoms that make a country a republic are eroded then gone. Don't let us lose it. Take the case to the Supreme Court, as a bipartisan lawsuit. Urge the Court to declare that part of that Act Unconstitutional and null and void. God Save America, from ourselves.
this is getting out of hand. indefinite detention has no place in a free country. keep our rights intact before we wake up in a police state.