“Looking Forward, Not Backward” Is Not Only Stupid … It’s Also Illegal
by WashingtonsBlog
Obama’s Failure to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Or Torture Harms Our Country … And Violates the Law
Failing to prosecute the fraud of the big banks is dooming our economy.
But it’s also illegal. Specifically, one of the top experts on bank fraud – William K. Black – says that the Bush and Obama administrations have both broken the law by failing to [...]
At the opening of CPAC 2013, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) picked up where he left off in his 13 hour filibuster last week. Paul took off the gloves and went after Barack Obama on indefinite detention, defending the Constitution, and unlawfully killing American citizens. He also spoke on debt and foolish and frivolous spending and when he touched on foreign aid he said, “I say not one penny more to [...]
In a letter to Paul dated on Monday, Holder said it was possible, “I suppose,” to imagine an “extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate” under U.S. law for the president to authorize the military to “use lethal force” within the United States.
However, Holder said the question was “entirely hypothetical” and “unlikely to occur.”
The United States, he said, has not carried out such action domestically and had no [...]
by WashingtonsBlog
We’ve previously documented that Obama has redistributed wealth to the super-rich and trampled civil libertieseven more than Bush.
Redditor n3uromanc3r adds the following round up of Obama’s track record.
Obama extends Patriot Act without reform – [1]
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-27/news/29610822_1_terrorist-groups-law-enforcement-secret-intelligence-surveillance
Obama sends more troops to Afghanistan – [2]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8389778.stm
Obama signs NDAA 2011 – [3]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/
Obama appeals the Federal Court decision that “indefinite detention” is unconstitutional – [4]
http://www.businessinsider.com/unbelievable-obama-administration-has-already-appealed-ndaa-ruling-2012-9
Obama uses his Presidential Drone “Kill List” to kill American cleric without trial -[5]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html?_r=2&hp&
and his 16 year old son in a [...]
Both political parties act like they dislike each other, but behind closed doors they buddy up for a drink and make deals.
They put on this show that they disagree with each other, when in fact both political parties are working for the global elite, both political parties are working toward a New World Order.
This is the fall of the republic, the limitations on the government have been whittled away. These [...]
SNIP
When Barack Obama ascended to the presidency in 2008, there was a sense, at least among those who voted for him, that the country might change for the better. Those who watched in awe as President Bush chipped away at our civil liberties over the course of his two terms as president thought that maybe this young, charismatic Senator from Illinois would reverse course and put an end to some [...]
The NDAA of 2013 passed with some other provisions that are are actually even more disturbing than the provisions for indefinite detention of civilians that we’re all familiar with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dzqbMVNrc4o
by WashingtonsBlog
Why We Are In a Perpetual Series of Wars …
We are in the middle of a perpetual series of wars. See this, this, this and this.
As just one example, in 2010 the war in Afghanistan became the longest war in U.S. history. But – no matter what you’ve heard – there are no plans to get out any time soon.
As Glenn Greenwald notes today:
Despite the happy talk from [the Pentagon's top lawyer, the war on terror] is not ending soon. By [...]
From Liberty Blitzkrieg:
This is how the corporate state rolls. They remove all the important stuff at the last minute, you know, like provisions that might actually protect constitutional rights.
This is exactly what they just did with the NDAA, which I outlined in my post The Section Preventing Indefinite Detention of Americans without Trial Removed from Final NDAA Bill. Now we find out from Wired that:
The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack [...]
From Azizonomics:
After all the promises from both Obama and Congressional leaders that indefinite detention for Americans would not be written into law, the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act contains exactly that.
What can we conclude from that? That both the executive branch including Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, and Eric Holder and majority elements of the legislative branch — the Senate voted 81-14, and the House voted 305-107 — want the power [...]
From Economic Policy Journal:
The very weak protections for Americans that were added to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 via an amendment that was introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Mike Lee, and supported by Sen. Rand Paul, has been stripped by the NDAA conference committee. Even those weak protections are now gone. Welcome to the United Soviet States of America.
Today, Rand Paul issued the following statement regarding the [...]
libertyblitzkrieg.com / By Michael Krieger / December 19, 2012
While the Feinstein-Lee Amendment wasn’t perfect, it was a small step forward as I outlined in my piece: My Thoughts on the Feinstein-Lee Amendment to the NDAA. Amazingly, this small victory has been stripped out of the final bill by our “representatives.” If this doesn’t prove without a shadow of a doubt that this government is criminal and wants the power to lock up [...]
The Tenth Amendment Center
Dec 6, 2012
A bill condemning detention provisions written into the National Defense Authorization Act and blocking any state cooperation with federal agents attempting to detain people in Michigan without due process unanimously passed the Michigan House Wednesday.
HB5768 declares, “no agency of this state, no political subdivision of this state, no employee of an agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state acting in his or her [...]
U-Turn: Senate Moves to Eliminate Indefinite Detention Provision of NDAA
Mac Slavo
November 29th, 2012
SHTFplan.com
To screams and protests from the American people, Congress overwhelmingly supported passage of the National Defense Authorization Act which, among other things, allowed for the indefinite detention of Americans without charge or trial should they be arrested or held under suspicion of loosely-based definitions for domestic terrorism.
A super-majority 86% of Senators supported the measure, which was signed by President Obama while [...]
Michael McAuliff | Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators made a bid Wednesday to end the indefinite military detention of Americans in the United States.
Declaring that a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 put the country on a path to repeat the shame of World War II’s internment camps, they argued the offending language should be stricken in this year’s defense bill.
The authority to detain anyone [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday that affords greater protection to federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse in government operations.
Capping a 13-year effort by supporters of whistle-blower rights, the new law closes loopholes created by court rulings, which removed protections for federal whistle-blowers. One loophole specified that whistle-blowers were only protected when they were the first to report misconduct.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/president-signs-whistle-blower-bill-us-workers
Is that why he’s prosecuted more government [...]
Jeremy Herb
The Hill
November 25, 2012
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is bringing a new — and more aggressive — approach to a longstanding debate over the Defense authorization bill, threatening to filibuster the bill to get a vote on his amendment limiting indefinite detention.
Paul’s amendment takes a new tack to curb the military’s ability to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism by affirming they have the right to a speedy trial [...]
Obama’s emergency stay on NDAA block extended
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Oct 3, 2012
A federal appeals court has ruled that the US government can still indefinitely detain citizens should it wish to do so, under the Obama Administration’s National Defense Authorization Act.
The ruling came in the form of an extension of an “emergency” stay of a district court judge’s order that had previously struck down the defence bill’s provisions altogether.
Last month District Judge Katherine [...]
From Azizonomics:
I expected to spend quite some time writing about the Obama administration’s successful appeal against Katherine Forrest’s historic gutting of the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA. Yet I can add very little to Glenn Greenwald’s summation:
In May, something extremely rare happened: a federal court applied the U.S. constitution to impose some limits on the powers of the president.
That happened when federal district court judge Katherine Forrest of the [...]
The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.
On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention [...]
A single federal appeals court judge put a temporary hold Monday night on a district court judge’s ruling blocking enforcement of indefinite detention provisions in a defense bill passed by Congress and signed into law last year by President Barack Obama.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier issued a one-page order staying the district court judge’s injunction until a three-judge appeals court panel can take up [...]
Obama appeals NDAA indefinite detention ban
A federal judge blocked the government from enforcing a statute that allows the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects. That means a victory for journalists and the activists fighting the law who could be arrested because their jobs sometimes require them to interact with suspect on the government’s radar, but it could be a victory short-lived. Only one day after a judge granted a [...]
From Zero Hedge:
Back in January, Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges sued President Obama and the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, specifically challenging the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force or, the provision that authorizes military detention for people deemed to have “substantially supported” al Qaeda, the Taliban, or “associated forces.”
Hedges called the president’s action allowing indefinite detention, which was signed into law with little opposition from either [...]
A US judge has blocked a military law that permitted indefinite detention of anyone without trial for aiding terrorism, declaring it unconstitutional. Journalists and activists claim the law impedes free speech, and could be used against them.
NY Federal District Judge Katherine Forrest said that the law affected anyone who provided so-called material support to organizations such as al-Qaeda or the Taliban. This definition includes text, video or speech that could [...]
Joe Wolverton, II
New American
September 8, 2012
While on a campaign swing through Ohio, President Barack Obama sat down with Fox 19 reporter Ben Swannto discuss a variety of national security and constitutional issues.
Swann is an investigative journalist known for his analysis segment called Reality Check. His reports have covered everything from the rules-approval scandal at the recent Republican National Convention to the indefinite detention of Americans as authorized by the National Defense Authorization [...]
Susanne Posel
Infowars.com
August 27, 2012
After Special Justice Walter Douglas Stokes sentenced former US Marine Brandon Raub to 30 days detention in the psychiatric ward of the Veterans Hospital, Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett dismissed the case citing that the original petition was “devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.”
John Whitehead, attorney for the Rutherford Institute and Raub has stated that [...]
RT.com
August 8, 2012
The White House has filed an appeal in hopes of reversing a federal judge’s ruling that bans the indefinite military detention of Americans because attorneys for the president say they are justified to imprison alleged terrorists without charge.
Manhattan federal court Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in May that the indefinite detention provisions signed into law late last year by US President Barack Obama failed to “pass constitutional muster” and [...]
From Thomas Sowell on LewRockwell.com:
There was a time, within living memory, when the achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as an inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that had served these achievers well, even if we were not in the same field of endeavor and were not expecting to achieve on the same scale.
The perseverance of Thomas Edison, as he tried scores of materials for [...]
Lawmakers are pushing legislation through Congress that will criminalize reporting on illegal activities and corruption in the US government.
Just when you thought the United States government couldn’t sink any lower our beloved politicians in Washington have introduced legislation that will criminalize reporting on US government secrets.
What makes this new legislation shocking is that we have seen the US government repeatedly use the “State Secrets” and the “National InSecurity card to suspend [...]
darkpolitricks.com
July 7, 2012
If you hate Obama – I agree with you.
He is a warmonger, a liar, a tool of the globalists and banksters he continued to bailout after following in Bush‘s footsteps.
He has brought in laws that destroy American citizens liberty like the NDAA, indefinite detention of US citizens without due process as well as normalising the killing of US citizens by Presidential decree.
He attacks supposed allied countries like Pakistan and kills hundreds by remote control through [...]
RT
June 9, 2012
A Federal judge in the US has ruled Washington cannot indefinitely detain Americans suspected of having terrorist ties unless they have been found in connection with the September Eleventh attacks. It comes just six months after President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have allowed American citizens to be held without trial or charge. The judge initially ruled the act was unconstitutional last month, but [...]
RT
Sorry, Mr. President. A US Federal judge has clarified a decision made last month with some news sure to upset the Obama administration: the White House cannot use the NDAA to indefinitely detain American citizens.
Judge Katherine B. Forrest has answered a request made by US President Barack Obama last month to more carefully explain a May 16 ruling made in a Southern District of New York courtroom regarding the National Defense Authorization [...]
From Azizonomics:
We all know that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed by President Obama on New Year’s Eve contained a now-struck-down provision to authorise the indefinite detention of American citizens on U.S. soil.
But did you know that the NDAA also paves the way for war with Iran?
… Section (6) rejects any United States policy that would rely on efforts to contain a nuclear weapons-capable Iran. Section (7) urges the [...]
lionsofliberty.com
May 22, 2012
“What if the American people woke up, and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?” – Congressman Ron Paul
Nary a week seems to go by around this here site where we don’t mention the insidiousindefinite detention provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed under the cover of New [...]
From Washington’s Blog:
Michael Hastings reports:
An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill….
The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee’s official website.
The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt [...]
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