President Barack Obama human rights disconnect: Required Indefinite Detainment Bill include U.S. Citizens, proclaimed this Human Rights Week
With little public outrage, on Saturday, President Barack Obama proclaimed human rights week as Senator Levin had revealed on the Senate Floor that, in what constitutes treason and flagrant breach of human rights, particularly Article 9 of the Declaration of Human Rights, the president required stripping Americans of their rights in the National Defense Authorization Bill of 2012. ACLU is among many American rights groups and individual defenders urging Americans to contact their legislators now before the final vote today or tomorrow and before more people experience Targeted Individuals’ cruel and inhumane treatment.
President Obama launched Human Rights Week 2011 by declaring on International Human Rights Day Saturday, “With the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly affirmed the eternal truths that all people have the right to liberty, equality, and justice under the law.”
Among the president’s human rights disconnects is between his words on Human Rights Day and his actions related to the National Defense Authorization Bill of 2012 that if passed, would remove rights from Americans, establish a dictatorship and enstate martial law, as he required the bill include.
Some people live in hope that President Obama will suddenly begin restoring rights shredded under George Bush’s presidency after 9/11, the event that his own Investigative Commission later said he ordered them to falsify the 9/11 official report, after which rights were shredded.
Bush’s 911 Commission says their report is almost entirely untrue, yet that event justified the war on terror as President Obama and Congress are still doing with the NDAA, but now, the related rights abuses of targeting innocent people as “terrorists” are up close and personal to Americans. In similar mode as when the PATRIOT ACT was imposed soon after 9/11, the American public is not being made aware of this fast-tracked dangerous assault on basic human rights. The military-industrial-complex controlled mainstream news blackout of the NDAA military rule bill can be evidenced with a Google search of “NDAA news.”
Bob Barr in the Daily Caller stated today about the NDAA:
“Its congressional supporters justify this radical and dramatic departure from more than two centuries of American jurisprudence by citing the 2001 Authorization of the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which Congress passed in the days following the attacks of 9/11 and the Bush administration used as a justification to expand its surveillance of U.S. citizens.”
While some people live in the world of Obama hope, others continue to rely on him to veto the “Martial Law” NDAA bill, as he said he would and as ACLU has said the Obama’s White House has repeatedly threatened to veto the bill if the dangerous provisions remain in its wording.
Those Obama hopes and beliefs, however, might finally be shattered by knowing that one author of the bill, Senator Carl Levin said days ago that it was the president’s administration who required Americans be included in the indefinite detention, no trial, no rights military “defense” bill and the president would give military control of American citizens.
(Watch Senator Levin reveal that the Obama administration required Americans be included in the NDAA 2012 on the Real TV News Youtube on this page.)
Major intelligence agencies and human rights defenders oppose congressional and presidential intent for dictatorship and martial law, stripping rights from people including Americans
Leadership from three major intelligence agencies, Secretary of Defense, Director of the FBI, Director of National Intelligence, plus the White House Advisor for Counterterrorism, and the DOJ National Security Division head have spoken against the NDAA bill and its indefinite detention authority.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell stated on Real News TV that the dramatic NDAA bill authorizing 600 billion dollars for its activities to arrest Americans is “another step on the road to tyranny.” (“Wilkerson: New Military Powers the Road to Tyranny,” Real News TV)
“We are creating tyranny,” Wilkerson said.
Nevertheless, as ACLU says, Congress is working secretly, behind closed doors, to try to “jam the legislation to the president’s desk very quickly.”
Senator Carl Levin, author of the bill along with Senator John McCain, on the senate floor, clarified that it was President Obama and his administration that required that the National Defense Authorization Bill authorize that Americans have their rights stripped, be held indefinitely without charge or trial. (See: “Proof Obama will sign NDAA 1031 Citizen Imprisonment Law in a few days” Youtube that also provides clickable legislator contacts)
Although President Obama stated Saturday, “On this anniversary, we recognize human rights as universal, and we stand with all those who reach for the dream of a free, just, and equal world,” he has violated Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, placing every law-abiding American at risk of human rights violations the U.S. has committed against innocent Muslims and other Middle Easterners in the “war on terror.”
Of the thirty articles of the human rights declaration, Article 9 states: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.”
Furthermore on Saturday, in his “Presidential Proclamation — Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week, 2011,” President Obama stated, “Dictators seek to constrain these liberties through repressive laws and blunt force.” His wording of NDAA, as he required, includes authorizing him to act as a dictator constraining peoples’ liberties, including liberies of Americans, as ACLU is urging Americans note.
The ACLU says that the National Defense Authorization Bill of 2012 (NDAA) authorizes presidents to have power of dictators: “to order the military to pick up and imprison people, including U.S. citizens, without charging them or putting them on trial.”
Washington State News reports Monday that the bill “also stipulates that these prisoners, potentially American, can be detained ‘without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.’”
” The U.S. is waging war on a tactic instead of a state, and acts of a criminal nature have been redefined as acts of terrorism and thus, acts of war. The ever-widening “war zone” is not where the bombs are planted; it includes our own backyards. This creates a perpetual Orwellian state of war, one in which we can detain individuals indefinitely, without the slightest bit of evidentiary support.”
“The ever-widening “war zone” is not where the bombs are planted; it includes our own backyards. This creates a perpetual Orwellian state of war, one in which we can detain individuals indefinitely, without the slightest bit of evidentiary support.
The U.S. Constitution, based on human rights, includes Amendment VI that states that “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.”
President Obama, with support of Congress, is now poised to shred one the of the last human rights entitlements to Americans.
“Bluntly put — even American citizens accused—but not tried and found guilty—can be sent to Guantanamo,” Jeanine Molloff reported. ”On December 1st, 2011, the US Senate accomplished the unthinkable–with the nearly unanimous passage of the National Defense Authorization Bill of 2012–THEY COMMITTED TREASON.”
“No proof of wrongdoing is required and those accused are denied the due process right of trial by their peers, or the services of an attorney– and are subsequently relegated to the ‘military commissions justice system.’ As a result–the accused are reduced to the status of ‘unlawful enemy combatant,’ and are subject to the following actions: ‘extroardinary rendition’ (read KIDNAPPING), ‘enhanced interrogation’ procedures (read TORTURE), ‘indefinite detention (read prison life sentence), and ‘presidential assigned extermination of target’ (read MURDER BY PRESIDENTIAL ORDER). These powers are then ‘given’ to the President to use at will, fully codified in law, erasing any legal doubts while requiring in reality no proof other than presidential whim.” (Maloff)
According to most U.S. senators, 97 of them who voted in favor of the wording of the NDAA as is, any person who has engaged in human rights activities is subject to “terrorist” treatment, as innocent Middle Easterners and others have been.
Peace makers such as Quakers, WAND members and any other civil and human rights workers such as those in the Occupy Wall Street movement are subjects of interest who could experience what the CIA and U.S. military has illegally done to innocent people in the Middle East in the “war on terror.”
Such treatment is already experienced by innocent Targeted Individuals who have been reporting such, especially since 9/11. Their cries repeatedly fall on deaf ears. Now, their treatment is better recognized with NDAA codifying such treatment of all other law-abiding citizens at will of the U.S. military and the president.
Sherwood Ross, former reporter for major U.S. dailies who also wrote weekly columns for British and U.S. wire services reports for the UK Progressive:
“Perhaps this is a good time to remind swindled American taxpayers that totalitarianism is what comes of funding a perpetual warfare state that spies on all global communications, builds the greatest military in human history, assassinates foreign leaders, overthrows elected governments, invades small nations based on lies to seize their natural resources, and threatens the world from its 800 military bases.
Maloff has highlighted,”Ironically, the abuse of civilian Iraqis by our military and by military contractors is coming to a locale near you. Theoretically, armed squads of US soldiers might be knocking on your door in the dead of night to take away Auntie Mame for her alleged “terrorist’ activities—at the ACLU.”
Ross points out that, “In the name of ‘defense,’ NDAA underwrites $662-billion for continued U.S. aggression in our many foreign wars while, on the domestic front, it incinerates the last surviving shreds of the Bill of Rights.”
Saturday, Obama delcared, “All people should live free from the threat of extrajudicial killing, torture, oppression, and discrimination, regardless of gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability.”
In clarifying the president’s actions differing to his words, Ross stated: ”President Obama is already exercising his kingly right to rain Hellfire missiles from drone assault planes down on any human being anywhere on the planet without a legal authorization.
“This is called assassination as it is utterly devoid of any semblance of rudimentary justice. Unfortunately, the president appears to have no qualms about his actions.
“Will such a man hesitate to arrest Americans on suspicion and imprison them for years, or worse, without trial?”
In the almost unanimous senate vote for the NDAA “martial law” bill, the only senators who opposed by voting against the anti-rights bill were Democrats Tom Harkin of Iowa; Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon; Republicans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky; and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Commenter SherrieQA stated Sunday, as reported by Michael Rivero of What Really Happened:
“Well now we know, for those who have been holding out ‘hope’ that Obama will veto the 1031 Indefinite Detainment Bill against holding U.S. Citizens without rights to a trial or lawyer or charges for the rest of their lives…. It was Obama who required the bill have the language of U.S. Citizens being held without rights in the bill! The only reason he would veto it, is because it does not give him the absolute power as he wants!”
In June, noted human rights group spokesperson Andrea Prasow stated that the military detention provision secretly authored by John McCain, Carl Levin and Lindsey Graham that the Senate Armed Services Committee then secretly discussed and passed, is what martial-law states, not democracies do. (“Martial law provision secretly passed in Congress Committee”)
According to ACLU, the un-American bill is soon to be signed into law “once the House and Senate conference committee puts its official stamp of approval on what the ‘Big Four’ — the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee — wrote in secret.”
A final vote on the bill could happen as soon as middle of this week which is why ACLU says, “Congress needs to hear from you today!”
“Contact your senators and House member and ask them to vote ‘NO’ on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012 if it includes indefinite detention without charge or trial.”
Ross urged, “If you don’t call your congressperson today to stop the NDAA, you are not likely to enjoy the blessings of liberty tomorrow.”
“The light in the torch of the Statue of Liberty has already been snuffed out by our illegal foreign wars. The final disgrace will be to imprison the beautiful lady behind the barbed wire of the NDAA.”
