Comments on: Judge Rules Indefinite Detention Sections of NDAA Unconstitutional https://www.eutimes.net/2012/05/judge-rules-indefinite-detention-sections-of-ndaa-unconstitutional/ We deliver exclusive hidden news that you won't just find anywhere, information that nobody wants you to know about. Updated 1 minute ago. Tue, 22 May 2012 08:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: David Rubinson https://www.eutimes.net/2012/05/judge-rules-indefinite-detention-sections-of-ndaa-unconstitutional/comment-page-1/#comment-46351 Tue, 22 May 2012 08:44:23 +0000 http://www.eutimes.net/?p=21399#comment-46351 You will be reading a lot about a so-called “victory” over some of the worst abuses of the NDAA. Its self-congratulatory and self-deluding BS.
Chris Hedges and others filed a lawsuit against the detention of US citizens, and have a win- in court.
This is all very well and good, and we applaud Hedges and his fellows, but of course, neither Congress nor the US Government cares a speck what some dumb court has to say. The next day after this decision was handed down, The House of Representatives passed a law negating it, and even the NY Times had to puke. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/opinion/a-new-a…
“…On Wednesday, a federal judge struck down a law allowing the indefinite detention of anyone suspected of terrorism on American soil as a violation of free speech and due process. Two days later, the House made it clear it considered those to be petty concerns, voting to keep the repellent practice of indefinite detention on the books.
House Vote Upholds Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects (May 19, 2012)
“On a 238-to-182 vote, it rejected a proposal for something so basic that it is hard to believe there was an argument about it: a formal charge and trial for anyone arrested in the United States. You might have thought that was guaranteed in the Constitution, but that right was stripped away in last year’s military policy bill, signed by President Obama, which made an exception for terror suspects. By giving the military the power to deal with domestic terrorists, the bill essentially allowed presidents to brand anyone a terrorist and lock them up for life without a trial…”
As far as putting the NDAA into practice, one need only look to this weekend in Chicago for confirmation that Judge Forrest and the entire system of Constitutional protections have simply been made irrelevant – as our similarly inclined pals put it: by the facts on the ground.

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