While the Offshore Banksters take over the world it's main objective is to disarm the American people and dismantle their 2nd constitutional amendment.
Constitutional attorney, Glenn Greenwald, has done a comprehensive dissection of the Defense Authorization Act, a must-read article for all American citizens. While the bill, which passed in the Senate on Thursday, essentially codifies the status quo, that status quo, unbeknownst to most Americans, removes all protections under the law that the constitution has guaranteed to citizens since the nation's founding. The bill first requires that all accused terrorists beindefinitely imprisoned by the military, not the civilian court system, allowing, though not mandating, the military to hold even U.S. citizens captured on U.S. soil without trial in military prisons. Second, it renews the Authorization to Use Military Force against any person or nation that "substantially supports" terrorist groups, an ever-expanding list, and registers the "battlefield" as the entire world, including within the United States itself. Third, it restricts the president's ability to transfer detainees from Guantanamo prison.
Mr. Greenwald does a thorough job of explaining the bill in the abstract. But what does this mean for us ? Who is a terrorist supporter under this law? A Liberal journalist? Non-governmental organizations that provide food and shelter to the world's poor, regardless of the policies of their governments ? Here is an example: Oxfam provides grain and medical treatment to the poorest nations in Africa and the Middle East, including Palestine. So if the government of Gaza, now classified as a terrorist organization, benefits from Oxfam's generosity, does that make Oxfam a "substantial supporter" of terrorism? If I write a ten dollar check to Oxfam and one dollar is spent on the Palestinian people, am I a "substantial supporter" of terrorism? If Juan Cole or Noam Chomsky writes an article pointing out that the U.S. government's claims about Iran's nuclear program are essentially made- up fiction, can they be imprisoned for life for supporting a terrorist organization? The bill is so vague and without definition that it can be used to imprison anybody for anything. And anywhere. The scarier-still part is the "global battlefield" stipulation, which means that Glen Greenwald, who spends most of his time in Buenos Aires and Brazil, could be arrested at his home there by American troops. As Representative Jerrold Nadler said on MSNBC this morning, " To our shame, a majority of both parties in the Senate voted for a bill that permits an American citizen accused of being an ally of al qaeda to be jailed indefinitely without any evidence or a trial. This goes against every American tradition, every legal norm ...it's tyranny. "
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