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One provision would authorize the military to indefinitely detain without charge people suspected of involvement with terrorism, including United States citizens apprehended on American soil. Due process would be a thing of the past.
Neely describes the arrival of detainees in full sensory-deprivation garb, he details their sexual abuse by medical personnel, torture by other medical personnel, brutal beatings out of frustration, fear, and retribution, the first hunger strike and its causes, torturous shackling, positional torture, interference with religious practices and beliefs, verbal abuse, restriction of recreation, the behavior of mentally ill detainees, an isolation regime that was put in place for child-detainees, and his conversations with prisoners David Hicks and Rhuhel Ahmed. It makes for fascinating reading.
Once there, prisoners were put in cells built on springs to instill disorientation, each fitted with an arrow pointing to Mecca.
Though the CIA failed to comment, The AP story reveals that in the first month of detention inmates were derived sleep, soaked with water, beaten, and forced to remain in painful positions.
This is what will happen to you (at least parts of it) if you're disappeared under the NDAA and this is why the government must not get away with it.
it is in bold so as not to miss it.
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 2056 - Insured Depository Institution Failures
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 1801 - Risk-Based Security Screening for Members of The Armed Forces Act
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 1059 - Redacting in Judges Financial Disclosure Reports
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 515 - Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 2422 -Sergeant Angel Mendez Post Office, Staten Island, New York
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 1264 - M.D. Anderson Plaza, Jackson, Tennessee
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 789 - Sergeant Matthew J. Fenton Post Office, Little Ferry, New Jersey
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 1892 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
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Posted on December 23, 2011
H.R. 2845 - Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011
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Posted on December 21, 2011
H.R. 1540 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
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Alternately, the President can sit on the bill, taking no action on it at all. If the President takes no action at all, and ten days passes (not including Sundays), the bill becomes law without the President's signature. However, if the Congress has adjourned before the ten days passes and without a Presidential signature, the bill fails. This is known as a pocket veto.
Obama said he would use a signing statement, on HR 1540, this was on the 20th 21st? Of Dec
The growing use of signing statements has attracted the attention of Congress: the 110th Congress witnessed the introduction of a House Bill (H.R. 264) intended to restrain the President's use of signing statements in general, as well as a Senate Resolution (S. Res. 22) explicitly rejecting particular interpretations of the President's signing statement for Public Law 109-435.
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
It's mind boggling that people still refuse to see what's going on in spite of being repeatedly shown the picture on the box and how all the pieces fit together.
It's also mind boggling that we haven't put a stop to it yet.
It's all going down. Right now.
We were warned.edit on 12/28/2011 by this_is_who_we_are because: typo
The Jacobins shared a defining ideological feature. They divided the world between pro- and anti-Revolutionaries — the defenders of liberty versus its enemies. The French Revolution, as they understood it, was the great event that would determine whether liberty was to prevail on the planet or whether the world would fall back into tyranny and despotism.
In his televised "Meet the Press" interview Feb. 8, President George W. Bush was never asked a question about "terrorism." Yet he used the word (or a variant) 22 times. The word explained, and justified, everything - past, present and future. Few American politicians or commentators dare to question the conventional wisdom that "terrorism" is the greatest threat facing America and the world. If so, the real threat lies not in the behavior to which this word is applied but in the word itself. It is no accident that there is no agreed definition of terrorism, since the word is so subjective as to be devoid of any inherent meaning. At the same time, the word is extremely dangerous, because people tend to believe that it does have meaning, and they use and abuse it by applying it to whatever they hate as a way of avoiding rational thought and discussion and, frequently, excusing their own illegal and immoral behavior.
White House Calls Use of the Word ‘Terrorists’ to Describe Tea Partyers ‘Inappropriate’ and ‘the Product of An Emotional Discussion’
One provision would authorize the military to indefinitely detain without charge people suspected of involvement with terrorism, including United States citizens apprehended on American soil. Due process would be a thing of the past.