Weekly - Week 08 (February 20, 2012)

You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you're Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these.

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Habeas Corpus News - The New York Times

The end of Habeas Corpus - 11-30-2011

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

Today (11-30-2011) is a sad day for freedom. The United States Senate voted in favor of indefinite military detention without a trial. The provision that would allow this was part of the National Defense Authorization Act which was supposed to be a Pentagon spending bill.

Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) led an unsuccessful attempt to pass an amendment to remove the detention and the military custody provisions from the bill. Sen. Udall requested further study of the issue. Udall said “These provisions could well represent a threat to our constitutional liberties. What is not clear is what we do with someone arrested in his home because of suspected terrorist ties. These detainee provisions would authorize that person’s indefinite detention, but it misses a critical point. How do we know that a citizen has committed these crimes unless they are tried and convicted? Do we really want to open the door to domestic military police powers and possibly deny U.S. citizens their due process rights?”

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) said “The U.S. government should not have the ability to lock away its citizens for years and perhaps decades without charging them. We don’t pick up citizens, we don’t incarcerate them for 10 or 15 or 20 years until hostilities end - and no one knows when they will end - without giving them due process of law.”

UPDATE 12/15/2011

None of those efforts to overturn this or to encourage the President to keep his word and veto this bill as he promised had any effect.
It is difficult to believe, but President Obama has now said that he will not veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which would allow the indefinite detention of Americans suspected of terrorism. Will not veto means that he will sign this into law.

http://thenewamerican.com/opinion/becky-akers/10509-the-ndaa-and-suspension-of-habeas-corpus-not-just-for-qenemy-combatants-anymore

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/obama-defense-bill_n_1177836.html

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/singleton/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEypM_BRe5Y

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Nazification_GermanyvsAmer.html

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