President Obama Signed the National Defense Authorization Act - Now What?
One thing I love about writing on technology is that it’s a subject always filled with hope and optimism. For every frightening use of technology by oppressive governments there’s a corresponding story about the use of that same technology to overcome oppression.
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The National Defense Authorization Act greatly expands the power and scope of the federal government to fight the War on Terror, including codifying into law the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects without trial. Under the new law the US military has the power to carry out domestic anti-terrorism operations on US soil.
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Worse, the NDAA authorizes the military to detain even US citizens under the broad new anti-terrorism provisions provided in the bill, once again without trial.
There is some controversy on this point, in part because the law as written is entirely too vague. But whether or not the law will be used to indefinitely detain US citizens domestically, it is written to allow the detention of US citizens abroad as well as foreigners without trial.
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Why isn’t this on the front page. It’s listed as under bieng ‘tech’ but isn’t even on the tech front page.
You/Forbes did a very good job on this article. It’s a critical issue, but it’s placement makes more suspicion as to why media is not running this where people can see it. Only if you search ndaa here or on the web does it come up.
Why not put it where people see what’s happening. who aren’t necessarily looking for it. This bill is a travesty. We must vote Out Every congress/senate rep who voted for this. Run for Congress, Start a Recall, Montana is doing just that.
Ask why. WHY do they need this bill.
