Congress to Vote on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State

[Tunkamerica]

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/congress-to-vote-next-week-on-explicitly-creating-a-police-state/


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The Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.

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The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.

[limpyhobbler]

1. quick form to email your senators for to oppose this

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3865&s_subsrc=fixNDAA

[msongs]

2. and of course our current president will veto this bill right? right? oops nt

[pokerfan]

3. Orwellian comes to mind

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
-George Orwell

[midnight]

4. Monday is another busy shopping day... I doubt the country will even be aware that

congress is up to creating this police state.... The patriot act went over so well...

[ZombieHorde]

5. Wow. Scary. nt

[Liberty Belle]

6. mail them a copy of the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn.

This would sink the US to the levels resorted to by the Soviets to maintain control--shameful and terrifying.

:kick:

Does this atrocity have a chance of passing?

[Ferret Annica]

7. President Obama picks up someone opposed to his re-election if he's supporting this

I will not support any candidate who thinks this is a good idea.

[tblue]

9. Ditto. I don't trust anyone with that kind of power.

I'm drawing a line. No way will I vote for Obama if he signs this bill.

[struggle4progress]

8. It's a 682 defense appropriation authorization bill

The text of Udall's S.AMDT.1107 is near page S7730 of the Congressional Record for the 112th

[GoneOffShore]

10. Posted it on Facebook and Twitter

Not that I have any followers on Twitter, but still.

[Mac1949]

11. An atrocity waiting to happen. NT