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Maybe this belongs in the thread about the Occupy Wall Street events but we'll see.
If someone already posted about this I missed it and sorry; if someone has not posted about this I'm a bit disappointed and I'm sure you'll be losing sleep over THAT!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-civil-liberties-americans-face/



So if I wasn't paying attention I would have thought that this sort of thing would be sorted out in the last 10 years.. with all of the liberals and conservatives duking it out about their nit-picky little slogans like "civil liberties" and "national security".. but I'm guessing that most people that don't really seem to care about these things are less apathetic and more just along the lines of "Well I'M not doing anything wrong so who cares?"
As for me.. well I'm too busy feeding my wonderful nations economy with Xmas shopping and playing my Xbox to really pay attention; SO if someone could care to take a look at whats going on and let me know if I should care or not; I'd appreciate it.

After all; I'd hate to have my Netflix watching interrupted by having to worry about where our poor government is going to put all of those unpatriotic dissenters out there...
Sure sure; I know that grassroots detention camps emergency camps http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645 have been in the works for quite some time now. http://dprogram.net/2009/08/20/rex-84-your-internment-camp-awaits-you/
It just makes me glad to know that my country can properly prepare itself for SOMETHING correctly.

YES; we can all breath a great sigh of relief to know that this is all just in time to round up all those dirty hippies that have been trying so hard to disturb my little peaceful bliss bubble of serene lethargy

Then again; not a lot of this stuff is on the REAL news networks like CNN and FOX.. so most of this is probably a bunch of lies perpetuated by a bunch of bored panic mongering psychos out there...
Nothing to worry about.. as long as I can keep filling my gas tank and playing my Call of Duty; I'm sure everything's going to be A-OK

Keep on truckin' America!

Kaol; your post has given me chills. If I could rate you up I would

I guess my problem is, how does the common citizen fight back against something like this?

I find it telling that political pundits are debating this bill... but the wrong part. The right is mostly upset about Article 125 being repealed (ban on sodomy) rather than the ability to indefinitely hold US citizens. The left, for its part, seems to have been asleep at the wheel up until it was passed, and just now we're seeing some anger.

Wait...why is sodomy in any way related to this?

It's buried in like thirty pages of revisions to various UCMJ articles in general, mostly dealing with Article 120. Dunno, I guess they figure that 125 is redundant since 120's opening comment is "(a) Any person subject to this chapter who commits an act of sexual intercourse by force and without consent" and pretty much covers it. We'll see in the coming days, I guess.

You don't, sadly.

You vote for people who won't do this Shit. Both my senators voted against this mess. How did yours vote?

Basically, what Gbaji said.

Well that was close. I'm sure no one will try THAT again.