Government declaring US battleground

dachuda86 · Dec 2, 2011

http://newsvoice.se/2011/12/02/us-senate-declares-the-entire-usa-to-be-a-battleground/

Is anyone else watching this?

TheresTheDagger · Dec 2, 2011

WTF? I'm gonna read up some more. Do NOT like upon first glance.

RedRedemption · Dec 2, 2011

The senate can't do this, because this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Thank goodness for judicial review... the Supreme Court will not let this go through.
I already knew we were slowly giving more "rights" to the police, didn't know it'd get this far.

dachuda86 · Dec 2, 2011

Supreme court needs it to go to court and be challenged first. Senate bills that pass only have to be signed by the President to become law.

Yonkers · Dec 2, 2011

Apparently blocked... for now at least

http://paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=399

Dec 1, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tonight, Sen. Rand Paul prevented the passage of an amendment that would have further eroded Americans' constitutional rights. Offered to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2012 (S.1867), amendment No. 1274 would have allowed the U.S. government to detain an American citizen indefinitely, even after they had been tried and found not guilty, until Congress declares an end to the war on terror.

"Suspicion of committing a crime should lead to your attempted prosecution. If the evidence does not support conviction, it would be against everything we believe in and fight for in America to still allow the government to imprison you at their whim," Sen. Paul said. "Tonight, a blow was struck to fight back against those who would take our liberty."

The amendment would have passed by voice vote, but this tactic was blocked by Sen. Paul's objection. He then forced a roll call vote, in which the amendment was defeated, 41-59.

Sen. Paul earlier this week introduced an amendment to formally end the war in Iraq. Despite the fact that troops will be removed from Iraq at the end of this year, the amendment failed 30-67.
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