On August 2, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with Carl Mayer, Bruce Afran, Daniel Ellsberg, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Tangerine Bolen (Host), David Segal, Kevin Gosztola, Michael Kelley, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Applebaum to discuss the current state of the ongoing Hedges v. Obama lawsuit against the US. Government regarding Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA and answered audience questions.
Seven plaintiffs, backed by multiple civil liberties and human rights groups, filed suit against President Obama, Leon Panetta, and 6 members of Congress over the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last March. The lawsuit, spearheaded by plaintiffs Chris Hedges and Tangerine Bolen, is one of the only things standing in between innocent citizens everywhere and the threat of indefinite detention by the US military under Section 1021 of the NDAA. Journalists, lawyers and activists around the world have expressed profound concern and criticism over a provision that effectively suspends due process of the law and threatens to destroy First Amendment rights.
We WON round one of our lawsuit in May, after Obama-appointed Judge Katherine Forrest ruled entirely in our favor and granted a temporary restraining order against this provision. She did so after the US government refused to provide assurances (when asked 5 times) that plaintiffs and others would not be subjected to indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights.
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It is terribly important to put the American government into their place, I suspect they have got away with much behind closed doors so something such as this, that is in the public domain needs to be tackled head on. No longer is America the most powerful country in the world. No longer is America the wealthiest country in the world. Nor are they the basition of democracy and liberty. I don’t know for how much longer that the American people will live under draconian martial rule in a cold war waged against them by the corporations via the state. My hear goes out to those too blind to see what is happening, ignorance is the worst threat to innocence. I wish there was something I could do to help.
It is a shame this doesn’t get more traction in mainstream news. Please everyone, do what you can to promote our constitution. Inform all who will listen!
The mainstream media will not doubt it’s newsworthiness, it’s scandalous the way the American government has behaved. The government can’t control the judiciary all of the time but it can control the media some of the time. All governments order news blackouts about things that may enlighten the people. The statue of liberty has no meaning to the USA politicians and hasn’t done since JFK. I noticed that Obama paraphrased a few JFK speeches during the run-up to the elections. JFK is what America so desperately needs. A Zionist version of Idi Amin is what America has.
NDAA 2012 was here. ~ You have been Tweeted and FB’ed.
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Section 1021 and 1022 have been called a violation of constitutional principles and of the Bill of Rights – Curated by http://tinyurl.com/6satg26
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba · http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012
I’m glad you have courage to engage in this struggle. However, I fear that the NDAA critics are getting hoodwinked & failing to grasp the bigger, more terrifying revelations, which have been revealed in Judge Forrest’s court. Check out analysis on my blog,”Obama Lawyers’ Scandalous Revelations in US Court Missed by Media & Congress:’Secret Powers’ Exceed NDAA & Imagination” http://theglobal99movement.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-2012-developments-in-us-court-to.html