I have been shocked lately at how quickly our civil liberties are being stripped away. Don’t think that one day whatever group you belong to won’t be targeted, if it suits those in authority. This is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue. All but one Republican candidate (Ron Paul), along with our current president, support the National Defense Authorization Act.
The indefinite detention of American citizens as made legal by the passage of this act is a travesty of justice and an extraordinary violation of important civil rights enshrined in our constitution.
Nazi Germany sat by and watched group after group lose their civil liberties, because it didn’t affect them personally, until one day it did.
On the other hand, the Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011 will return those civil liberties to our citizens. It is cosponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
From Dianne Feinstein’s website:
“We must clarify U.S. law to state unequivocally that the government cannot indefinitely detain American citizens inside this country without trial or charge. I strongly believe that Constitutional due process requires U.S. citizens apprehended in the U.S. should never be held in indefinite detention. And that is what this new legislation would accomplish.”
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