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Wake Up America (NDAA)

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Written by Maia Newley   
Friday, 16 December 2011 13:19
There are times when I feel we all go on too much about politics and governments. Times when I'd love to be able to sit back and believe that those we elected, actually know what they are doing and have our best interests at heart.

Trouble is, history tells me I am wrong! The Occupy movement has now become so large and spread its tentacles so far across the world that, finally, I have begun to have some hope that citizens around the globe are waking up to the unpleasant fact that the powers-that-be have had it their way for far too long. They've stolen from us, manipulated us, controlled us through a kind of only-slighted-veiled passive aggression, and now they want to lock us up!

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

The passing of the National Defense Authorization Act bill on Thursday really was the last straw for me. Indefinite detention without trial may sound ok if you're talking about a despotic, Middle Eastern, regime but it definitely doesn't sound ok when you're talking about the supposed center of the 'Free World'. What rights do we, as Americans, have any more, to trot about the globe bringing 'democracy' to people when we have so little of our own these days? What does democracy mean to you? I am now searching for a new and up-to-date definition. I know what it used to mean, but these days I'm not sure. I suspect it means something like "I agree with everything the government is doing because, if I don't, then I obviously don't love my country" but, just speaking personally you understand, if that's the new democracy, give me good old-fashioned tyranny any day because at least everyone knows what that is and what it stands for.

As Benjamin Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

The NDAA is a shameful piece of legislation which has no place on our statute books and tramples over The Constitution. It has no redeeming features in my view. I can't find any anyway but no doubt the politicians will be running hard to present a glossy view of it on Fox News and, equally certainly, Fox News will be open to giving them plenty of airtime to do that!

In my view, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck - well then it IS a duck...
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