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PANDA's fight to end NDAA once and for all

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PANDA's fight to end NDAA once and for all

LIBERTY & TYRANNYAUGUST 29, 2012BY: KEN LARIVE

"This measure has a chilling impact on First Amendment rights." said Federal District Judge Katherine Forrest.

Judge Forrest ruled May 16th, 2012 in her southern district in Manhattan to favor a group of writers and activists who sued President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and the Defense Department with clams that provisions inside of the National Defense Authorization Act that was signed into law Dec. 31, 2011 was blatantly unconstitutional. This preliminary injunction is considered a watershed moment in reversing decades of bipartisan assaults on civil liberties and the American Constitution.

The New York Times reporter, Christopher Hedges, and other plaintiffs, contend that the law allows for detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on “suspicion of providing substantial support,” to people engaged in hostilities against the U.S., but that this contention could be too broadly interpreted. The NDAA views a terrorist to be anyone who might speak out against the government, are deemed to hold "extreme views," or exhibits what is judged to have "unusual actions" that catch the attention of others. The NDAA dissolved due process.

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At the Paul Fest a group of anti-NDAA supporters from People Against the NDAA (PANDA), an organization with over 70 chapters in 30 states, passed fliers to indicate the true scope of NDAA.

· You may be arrested and indefinitely detained at the discretion of the President, if he alone deems you a terrorist. The definition of the word 'terrorist' is at his discretion.

· Those accused would not have the right to legal representation, and cannot make contact with anyone, including an attorney of family member, and so due process is dissolved.

· The accused can be held indefinitely without being convicted of a crime.

· The accused no longer has the right to a trial by jury.

· The accused can be executed without a conviction of crime, and would be entirely in the hands of Federal authority.

The NDAA, in and of itself, violates over half of our Bill of Rights.

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