Is
the Defense Authorization Act of 2012) More Threatening to Americans than
Hitler's (1933 DISCRIMINATORY LAWS) That Suspended Provisions In the Reich
Constitution That Protected German Citizens' Civil liberties?
Compare:
Hitler's 1933 DISCRIMINATORY Decrees stated time limits that German Citizens could be incarcerated for e.g.,
Serious Disturbance of the Peace, Provoking Public Unrest, Rioting; Acts that
threatened National Security; note that Senators Carl Levin and John McCain’s passed
National Defense Authorization Act"mandates holding Americans’ (Indefinitely)
in Military Custody, even for being a mere “Belligerent.” Some observers believe NDAA included the vague term “Belligerent” in the
manner it did, so U.S. Government would have authority granted by
Congress to Indefinitely Detain large numbers of Americans not involved in
terrorism. U.S. Government can now
arbitrarily deem anyone a “Belligerent.” Compare below The NAZI
Government 1933 Decrees with Senators Carl Levin and John McCain’s National
Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
Under the
passed National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, could some
Americans be (Retroactively) subject to
Indefinite U.S. Military or Prison Detention without charges or right to an attorney or trial? Consider
that most American activists don’t know what other activists and groups they
networked or associated with have done in the past"perhaps illegal. Alarmingly both the National Authorization Act of
2012 and USA Patriot Act are broadly vague"what constitutes (1) a terrorist
act, (2) supporting or aiding terrorists; (3) when someone is a “Combatant” or
(4) “a Belligerent.” For example, Americans advocating, attending or supporting
a meeting or protest demonstration against a U.S. Government Agency; Policy or
U.S. Military Action"could be charged with (1) (2) (3) and (4) under NDAA and
the Patriot Act.
History
Repeats Itself: When other countries passed Police State Laws like
The Defense Authorization Act of 2012, Citizens increasingly abstained from
politically speaking out; visiting activist websites or writing comments that
might be deemed inappropriate by the Police State Government, e.g. cause
someone to lose their job; be investigated; disappeared, and or detained in
Police/Military Custody. Some writers might be dead-meat under NDAA. It appears
that “Americans” who write on the Internet or verbally express an opinion
against any entity of U.S. Government or its coalition partners"may under the
Patriot Act or The Defense Authorization Act"be deemed by U.S. Government (someone
likely to engage in, support or provoke violent acts or threaten National
Security"to order an American writer’s
indefinite military or prison detention.
Is The Defense
Authorization Act Retroactive? Can U.S. Government invoke provisions of passed
NDAA or the Patriot Act to assert a
U.S. Citizen’s past writings (protected
by the 1st Amendment) have in the past supported or aided terrorists;
provoked combatants or belligerents as a premise to order an author’s Indefinite
Detention? The Defense Authorization
Act of 2012 did more than Chill Free Speech"it may FREEZE IT!
It should be
expected that indefinitely detained U.S. Citizens not involved
in terrorism or hostile activities, not given Miranda Warnings when interrogated
or allowed legal counsel; will also be prosecuted for non-terrorist (ordinary
crimes) because of their (alleged
admissions) while held in Indefinite Detention. Compare below: Hitler’s Laws that might appear mild when set side
by side with the National Authorization Act of 2012 and USA Patriot Act.
1933. ROBL. I 83. GERMANY Preliminary Compilation of Selected Laws,
Decrees, and Regulations:
DISCRIMINATORY LAWS:
DECREE OF THE REICH
PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE
Note: Based on translations by State Department, National
Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler
Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7
In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution,
the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of
Violence, endangering the state:
Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118,
123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until
further notice.
Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of
opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right
of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and
telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for
confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond
the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public
security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take
over the powers of the highest state authority.
Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the
disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the
authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders
given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable"insofar as
the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with
imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000
Reich marks.
Who ever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to
be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with
imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death
of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary
sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include
confiscation of property.
Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public
welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating
circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.
Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable
with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81
(high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods),
315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).
Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously
provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment
or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:
1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a
member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or
provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer,
or conspires with another for such a murder;
2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code
(serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious
disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously
and intentionally with an armed person;
3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the
Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage
in the political struggle.
Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its
promulgation.
Reich President Reich Chancellor Reich Minister of the Interior Reich Minister of Justice