A Dark Day for the Land of the Free

Trey Smith

President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country … and citizens partied in unwitting bliss into the New Year. (emphasis added)
~ from The NDAA's Historic Assault on American Liberty by Jonathan Turley ~

I both have written about and shared more than a few articles on this topic. If I had ever considered voting for Obama in 2012 (which I haven't), his advocacy and signing of this evil legislation would have led me to change my mind. I used to think that George W. Bush was the worst president in the history of this nation, but in my mind's eye, Obama has nudged ahead of him!!

While I have remarked before that I'm an outraged that this law now codifies that US citizens can be picked up without charge and held indefinitely, I should be clear that this is not my chief objection. I really don't care if an individual is a citizen or not: Due process under the law should be afforded to everyone, INCLUDING bona fide suspected terrorists.

Though never perfect in its application, the United States of America was established as a nation that respected the rule of law. We created a system in which individuals were granted certain rights. Included among these were the rights to be informed why we have been arrested and to see the evidence the state has collected against us. We also have been granted the right to challenge this "evidence" in a court of law by facing off against our accuser[s].

By removing all of these rights and more in one fell swoop, political leaders from BOTH political parties have turned their backs on the US Constitution that they are sworn to uphold. While many of these same leaders continue to mouth rhetoric about the legacy of our Founding Fathers, they concurrently are trampling on their graves with both feet!

For me, January 1, 2012, marks the day the US was transformed from a representative democracy to a neo-fascist state. The president is no longer a democratic representative of the people; he has become a dictator with unlimited and unchecked power. Far too many of my fellow citizens won't notice this change because they still get to participate in the rigged election system and they will spend the next 11 months deluding themselves into believing that they have a say.

If you end up voting for Barack Obama or ANY of the so-called democratically-elected representatives who supported this nefarious bill, then you will have no one to blame but yourselves for what most assuredly will come next!