Who Needs Due Process?

Here's what Senate leader Lindsey Graham (R) thinks of due process rights for US citizens suspected of terrorist activities or sympathies:

"If you are an American citizen and you betray your country, you're going to be questioned about what you know...and you are not going to be given a lawyer if our national security interests dictate that you not be given a lawyer and go into the criminal justice system, because we're not fighting crime, we're fighting a war."

The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Bill) of 2012 in sectinos 1031, 1032, 1033-35 gives the president the authority to indefinitely detain anyone, anywhere in the world as an "unlawful combatant"--a black hole category invented by the Charlatan's legal goons to circumvent the Geneva Conventions--if he merely suspects someone of being a terrorist, having terrorist sympathies, or substantially supports "associated forces". These vague but elastic descriptions are not defined in the bill. So theoretically, you or someone you love who volunteers for the ACLU which blew the whistle on the NDAA provisions could be taken away in the dead of night and subjected to rendition, enhanced interrogation, or imprisonment without trial. No proof is required, just mere presidential paranoia. Sound impossible or simply is a bad joke by a TV clown? No, it is real and pending before the United State's Congress now. Section 1031 et seq is a recodification of the infamous Authorization to Use Military Force passed by voice vote of Congress in the hysterical aftermath of the terror attacks on New York and Washington, DC. Not since the days of the Red Scare has the United States government gone so far to strip way the civil rights of its citizens. Defenders say the NDAA forbids detention of US citizens, but the language of the bill clearly makes military detention of a US citizen in the United States an option available to the executive branch. Ask the seven senators who voted against the bill if it categorically forbids military detention of US citizens. (Coburn, Harkin, Lee, Merkley, Paul, Sanders, and Wyden) It is way past time to end the national nightmare of eternal war before America becomes the next Third Reich. Then it will be too late. Tell the constitutional scholar occupying the White House to condemn this fascist bill to the trash heap of history.