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Solzhenitsyn became the hero of so many of us when he exposed the Soviet Union s extensive gulag system. Is this really the kind of United States we want to create in the name of fighting terrorism?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30294.htm



''It Is Clearly Unconstitutional''

Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens

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''I think that for those of us who care about civil liberties, the right of dissent and freedom, we have to stand up.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30315.htm

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Creating American terrorists

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

01/19/12

Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a 'battlefield' against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter, have claimed that the White House will only use its new power carefully and with due process. Opponents note that the White House has never hesitated to use any new authority, no matter how outrageous, and that the trend of law enforcement and security agencies is to expand on powers granted, not to rein them in or limit them...

http://tinyurl.com/7rnfdfg



NDAA sections 1021 and 1022: Scary potential

Tenth Amendment Center
by Rob Natelson

02/06/12

Are the detainment provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act serious? Yes they are. This is a complicated area, and there has been a lot of word-fudging in spinning this subject. So bear with me as we take things step by step...

http://tinyurl.com/8a5r4z4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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LA Police Department Conducts Joint Exercises with the Military

Dan Bacher, AlterNet: ''The LA Police Department ... and the U.S. military conducted joint 'tactical exercises' in downtown LA this week. One Black Hawk ... and four OH-6 choppers ... flew over the city during the exercise.... Joint military exercises have also been conducted over Boston, Massachusetts and Little Rock, Arkansas over the past six months.... The exercises become even more ominous when you consider that ... Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ... allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law.''

http://www.truth-out.org/la-police-department-conducts-joint-exercises-military/1327767532



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