I previously posted about the travesty of S.1867 passing in the senate. It has come to light that Rand Paul has forced congress to record their votes on another bill that would allow indefinite detention of American citizens in placed like Guantanamo Bay and foreign prisons, known as rendition, where torture is very real. If you think you are excluded from torture because you are an American, you haven't been paying attention. Only this time, the bill in question stated that the military could hold Americans, indefinitely, even after they had been acquitted in court.
Even after they were acquitted in court.
Let this sink in.
This bill would have given the military power to hold you in military prison until "you were no longer deemed a threat" (see. for life) even after they were acquitted in court. Innocent. Detained for life.
Repeat that line in your head over and over.
Innocent. Detained for life.
Innocent. Detained for life.
Innocent. Detained for life.
This bill failed in congress since Rand Paul demanded that the senators record their votes. The senate was going to vote on this bill purely on voice alone. This bill failed, thankfully, by 51 to 49.
49 senators think that it is OK to detain and torture innocent Americans for life.
I don't know about you, but it appears to me that we have a systematic problem of traitors in our offices of power.
As for S.1867, the president has vowed to veto the bill. Hooray!
The reasons given? Press Secretary Jay Carney replied:
The president is vowing to veto this bill because it doesn't give him ENOUGH power?! Hooray...?
it is so obvious to me what is going on,not only here but across the world.Just today Israel is limiting it's peoples freedoms.We as a people of this nation should be more involved with our government,but the dumbing down,the selfishness,the unbelievable amount of apathy will be this nations demise.
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