- Target:
- President Barack Obama
- Region:
- United States of America
According to Firedoglake.com, sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA will:
1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;
(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and
(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
AddictingInfo.org adds:
A provision of S. 1867, or the National Defense Authorization Act bill, written by Senators John McCain and Carl Levin, declares American soil a battlefield and allows the President and all future Chief Executives to order the military to arrest and detain American citizens, innocent or not, without charge or trial.
In other words, if this bill passes and the President signs it, OWS protesters or any American could end up arrested and indefinitely locked up by the military without the guaranteed right to due process or a speedy trial.
Dear President Obama,
WE THE PEOPLE are demanding in the name of LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS that you veto the National Defense Authorization Act or S. 1867.
Upon signing this bill, all of what America means to Americans and the world will be dismissed, dismantled, and destroyed. Currently, the idea and ideal of DEMOCRACY is an experiment, an experiment which is working in many ways and is dismally failing in others.
Our Declaration of Independence says that “all men are created equal” but in the experiences of many women and men, this promise or declaration has been null and void! There is no equal justice under the law; this is known by anyone who has the courage to accept the reality of our existence.
The rights to LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS has not been equally accessible to all Americans, YOU know this as WE THE PEOPLE know this. It is the fact, this very pertinent fact that WE have not been able to become “A MORE PERFECT UNION” as of yet that must pivot YOU towards vetoing the National Defense Authorization Act or S. 1867.
WE must not concede to fear and continue to believe in our historical cause of promoting LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS for all women and men.
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The Veto S1867 petition to President Barack Obama was written by Pearl Barkley and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.