Dear god, who among us can take another day of Ron Paul?

[woo me with science]

6. Ron Paul introduces bill to repeal indefinite detention section of NDAA.

I hope he stays in the race. No way he will ever get the nomination, but he forces some important conversations that would otherwise be completely ignored by the corporate candidates.


http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318153

Ron Paul introduces bill to repeal section of NDAA
By Christine Mattice
Jan 19, 2012 in Politics

On Wednesday, Ron Paul introduced a bill to his House colleagues to repeal section 1021 of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).
This section states the United States can indefinitely detain anyone—without charges or trial—who they believe has “substantially supported certain terrorist groups.”
Paul fears that this vague language could extend the military might to United States citizens.
Taking a break from campaigning for the GOP nomination, Paul defending his bill on the House floor and asked his colleagues to join him.
Paul said, in part:

Section 1021 provides for the possibility of the U.S. military acting as a kind of police force on U.S. soil, apprehending terror suspects, including Americans, and whisking them off to an undisclosed location indefinitely…This is precisely the kind of egregious distortion of justice that Americans have always ridiculed in so many dictatorships overseas.

He also took a swipe at Republican Senator Lindsay Graham (without naming him), by recalling his famous statement on the Senate floor about future detainees: “When they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’”
“Is this acceptable,” Paul asked his colleagues, “in someone who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution?”
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* For the alert happy: This is not an endorsement of Ron Paul, and I am disgusted that I even need to say that.