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Today: Nationwide NDAA 2012 Congressional Protest
02-03-2012
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Americans across the country will gather outside congressional offices
Feb. 3rd from noon to 7 p.m. to protest NDAA 2012 (H.R. 1540). You will
find your protest location by looking to see how your congressmen voted.
Look below - under house and senate. There is also a lin k so you can find the address to your congressman's local office where your protest will take place.
This is a new page to help organize protests across the country: http://www.facebook.com/
media/set/
?set=a.280660888662374.6579
5.248343955227401&type=3
House
http://www.govtrack.us/
congress/
vote.xpd?vote=h2011-932
Senate
http://www.govtrack.us/
congress/
vote.xpd?vote=s2011-230
Office Locations for Congressmen
http://www.senate.gov/
general/
contact_information/
senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=st
ate&Sort=ASC
http://www.house.gov/
representatives/
Liberty oriented organizations and Meetups please schedule the event.
Individuals should use blogs, forums, twitter, face book and youtube to
let others know about the protest. Participants should notify the local
and national media of their protests.
The objective of our
demonstration is to have our congressmen repeal Section 1021 and 1022
which could lead to the indefinite military detention of Americans
without due process. Make sure to contact your congressmen also. The
protest is not affiliated with any particular political or grassroots
organizations. We are uniting as individuals who want to stop this
tyranny before it gets worse. Martin Luther King didn't need violence to
affect change, neither do we.
NDAA 2012 allows for Americans
to be indefinitely detained by the military without access to an
attorney or a trial by jury on orders of the executive branch.
Amendments to exclude American citizens were rejected by the Obama
administration and senate vote (See below).
Congress and
President Obama have declared war on Americans. The last time America
was declared a military zone President Roosevelt authorized the
internment of Americans with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19,
1942.
NDAA 2012 is unconstitutional. Sections 1021 and 1022
repeal the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th amendments to the Constitution.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and declares our right
to due process. No law can supersede it. We have a right to our day in
court with a jury of our peers.
U.S. Constitution Article III Section 2
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by
jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes
shall have been committed.
From Oath Keepers:
We will
NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy
combatants” or to subject them to trial by military tribunal.
One of the causes of the American Revolution was the denial of the right
to jury trial, the use of admiralty courts (military tribunals)
instead, and the application of the laws of war to the colonists. After
that experience, and being well aware of the infamous Star Chamber in
English history, the Founders ensured that the international laws of war
would apply only to foreign enemies, not to the American people. Thus,
the Article III Treason Clause establishes the only constitutional form
of trial for an American, not serving in the military, who is accused of
making war on his own nation. Such a trial for treason must be before a
civilian jury, not a tribunal.
The international laws of war
do not trump our Bill of Rights. We reject as illegitimate any such
claimed power, as did the Supreme Court in Ex Parte Milligan (1865). Any
attempt to apply the laws of war to American civilians, under any
pretext, such as against domestic “militia” groups the government brands
“domestic terrorists,” is an act of war and an act of treason.
http://oathkeepers.org/
oath/2009/03/03/
declaration-of-orders-we-wi
ll-not-obey/
Our Declaration of Independence also discusses our right to trial by jury.
Senator Graham said that America is part of the battlefield, and as
such, Americans can be captured, interrogated, and killed with no due
process. Senators Graham, Kyl, and McCain say the law of war (military
law) applies to us.
The senators claim the 2001 AUMF is in
accordance with 1971 Non-Detention Act and allows Americans to be
detained indefinitely without acces to an attorney. They argue that the
Supreme Court has held that the President has the constitutional
authority to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens.
Non - Detention Act 1971:
No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress
The senators say the act of congress that allows you be detained
indefinitely is the AUMF 2001. So, no, the paragraph below from NDAA
2012 Section 1021 does not protect you. We are talking about the law of
war applied to American citizens, not criminal law, which includes due
process.
(d) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section is in
tended to limit or expand the authority of the President
or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military
Force.
Senator Graham: Under domestic criminal law, we can't hold someone
indefinitely.The only way to do that legally is under the law of war.
http://www.emptywheel.net/
wp-content/uploads/2011/12/
111201-Senate-NDAA-Debate.p
df
Senator Kyl - I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a
statement that makes very clear where military detention is necessary:
to allow intelligence gathering that will prevent future terrorist
attacks against the American people.
There being no objection,
the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:
Wartime Detention of Enemy Combatants--Including U.S. Citizens Who Join
the Forces of the Enemy--Is An Established Practice That Is Clearly
Constitutional.
Senator Kyl goes on to say:
Nothing
precludes the United States, the executive branch, from thereafter
deciding to try the individual as a criminal in the criminal courts with
all the attendant rights of a criminal. But until that determination,
it cannot be denied that the executive has the authority to hold people
as military combatants, gather intelligence necessary, and hold that
individual until the cessation of hostilities.
In military
custody, by contrast, not only are there no lawyers for terrorists. The
indefinite nature of the detention--it can last as long as the war
continues--itself creates conditions that allow effective interrogation.
It creates the relationship of dependency and trust that experienced
interrogators have made clear is critical to persuading terrorist
detainees to talk. Navy Vice-Admiral Lowell Jacoby, who at the time was
the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, explained how military
custody is critical to effective interrogation in a declaration that he
submitted in the Padilla litigation. He emphasized that successful
noncoercive interrogation takes time--and it requires keeping the
detainee away from lawyers.
http://www.emptywheel.net/
wp-content/uploads/2011/12/
111201-Senate-NDAA-Debate.p
df
"I consider Trial by Jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by
which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution".
Thomas Jefferson
Text of AUMF
http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/
Authorization_for_Use_of_Mi
litary_Force_Against_Terro
rists
Obama Rejected Exclusion of Americans from NDAA 2012:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=kKfyao7ABME
Obama Signing Statement:
I want to clarify that my Administration
will not AUTHORIZE the indefinite military detention
without trial of American citizens.
http://
www.washingtonpost.com/r/
2010-2019/WashingtonPost/
2011/12/31/
National-Politics/Graphics/
Obama-NDAA-signing-statemen
t.doc.pdf
Senators Confirm that NDAA 2012 Detains Americans:
Senate Hearing - Dec. 1st
http://www.emptywheel.net/
wp-content/uploads/2011/12/
111201-Senate-NDAA-Debate.p
df
Senator Feinstein
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-z1J1gkVOfM
Senator Rand Paul
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=GDx062cpWKE
Senators Graham, Carl Levin
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=l3PtkO291I8
Rep. Moran
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=eX71KJWYi2A
Senator Graham:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=51F4kdE1jP4
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=8ejw7WUb310
http://www.aclu.org/blog/
national-security/
senators-demand-military-lo
ck-american-citizens-battl
efield-they-define-being
Senator Merkley
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=KDsKApesG3YS
Senator Durbin
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Ukoef7Tebko&feature
=channel_video_title
Take Action Video: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9JLe5xP1fdg&feature
=related&mid=579109
Senator Feinstein's Failed Amendments:
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
To limit the authority of the Armed Forces to detain citizens of the United States under section 1031.
http://www.votesmart.org/
bill/14187/
prohibits-detention-of-us-c
itizens-without-trial#3742
0
http://
fellowshipofminds.wordpress
.com/tag/mark-udall/
TEXT OF Failed Udall AMENDMENT(Senate - November 17, 2011):
At the end of section 1031, add the following:
(f) Extension to United States Citizens and Lawful Resident Aliens. The
authority of the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered
persons under this section extends to citizens of the United States and
lawful resident aliens of the United States, except to the extent
prohibited by the Constitution of the United States.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
home/thomas.php
Senator Rand Paul's Failed Amendment - Nov. 17th, 2011 SA 1062 as follows:
Strike section 1031.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
home/thomas.php
H.R. 1540 Wording - Sect. 1021 and 1022
http://
www.lawfareblog.com/
wp-content/uploads/2011/12/
NDAA-Conference-Report-Deta
inee-Section.pdf
Original bill Page 359 - (S. 1867 - NDAA 2012) - Indefinite Detention -Sect. 1031 and Sect. 1032
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
pkg/BILLS-112s1867pcs/pdf/
BILLS-112s1867pcs.pdf
Understanding H.R. 1540 Articles
http://oathkeepers.org/
oath/2012/01/19/
what-congress-must-do-to-fi
x-the-damage-of-ndaa-and-d
eny-the-u-s-government-the
-power-to-wage-war-on-amer
icans/?cp=1#comment-55123
http://www.policymic.com/
articles/3227/
ndaa-barack-obama-s-war-aga
inst-the-american-people
http://www.salon.com/2011/
12/16/
three_myths_about_the_deten
tion_bill/singleton/
http://
tenthamendmentcenter.com/
legislation/
liberty-preservation-act/
http://
www.bakersfield.com/
opinion/community/
x2117244914/
Controversial-law-lays-wast
e-to-much-of-the-Bill-of-R
ights
http://www.truthdig.com/
report/page2/
why_im_suing_barack_obama_2
0120116/
http://blog.chron.com/
youngamericanmuslim/2012/
01/
caution-according-to-the-nd
aa-you-could-be-a-terroris
t/
http://
www.businessinsider.com/
language-of-ndaa-legal-to-i
mprison-americans-2012-1
Non Detention Act 1971
http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Non-Detention_Act
posse comitatus
http://
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
18/1385.html
http://
www.homelandsecurity.org/
journal/articles/
trebilcock.htm
pursuant - in accordance with.
codified - Arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
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