Concordia res Parvae Crescunt
For Immediate Release: February 17, 2012
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State and local resistance to detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act continues to snowball.
On Tuesday, the Virginia House overwhelming passed “A BILL to prevent any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency of the armed forces of the United States in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of a citizen in violation of the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Virginia, or any Virginia law or regulation.”
The House of Delegates approved HB1160 96-4. It now moves on to the Virginia Senate for consideration.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Arizona Senate Border Security, Federalism and States Sovereignty Committee approved SB1182 6-1, bringing it one step away from a full Senate vote. The bill, “prohibits this state and agencies of this state from participating in the implementation of Sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 and classifies the act of attempting to enforce or enforcing these sections as a class 1 misdemeanor.”
The Arizona and Virginia legislatures join lawmakers in Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Washington considering laws or resolutions pushing back against NDAA detention. And sources close to the Tenth Amendment Center and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee indicate several more states will follow suit in the next two weeks.
Resistance to indefinite detention without due process is not limited to states. Six local governments have passed resolutions condemning sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA. Earlier this week, the Town Council of Macomb, N.Y. unanimously passed a resolution, and Fairfax, Calif. approved a similar resolution 4-1. On Wednesday, New Shoreham, R.I. also passed a resolution opposing NDAA detention.
“Most Americans recognize that the federal government rarely, if ever, relinquishes power once it grasps it. So state and local governments are taking James Madison’s words to heart and interposing on behalf of their citizens,” Tenth Amendment Center communications director Mike Maharrey said.
Some argue that sections 1021 and 1022 don’t actually authorize indefinite detention of persons on U.S. soil, but Maharrey says their assurances shouldn’t provide much comfort.
“The very fact that so many legal experts come up with so many diverse readings of those NDAA sections should give us all pause,” he said. “The language is vague and undefined. Are we really going to trust the judgment and good intentions of Pres. Obama or whichever Republican sits in the White House to protect us? That seems like a pretty bad plan.”
To track state and local resistance to NDAA detention, click HERE.
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The NDAA only goes to further stifle our Constitutional Rights without the approval of the Americans, just as the Patriot Act was adopted WITHOUT public approval or vote just weeks after the events of 9/11. A mere 3 criminal charges of terrorism a year are attributed to this act, which is mainly used for no-knock raids leading to drug-related arrests without proper cause for search and seizure. The laws are simply a means to spy on our own citizens and to detain and torture dissidents without trial or a right to council. You can read much more about living in this Orwellian society of fear and see my visual response to these measures on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html
BrandtHardin
I have no clue what Constitutional rights are, I do know what inalienable rights are stated in my Declaration of Independence and I know what constitutional rules are that limit Government stupidity. The NDAA breaks many of the Constitutional limits set by it which goes against the law of the land.
It is very good to know which destination we are attempting to reach. The nullification process going on its states right now is the act of upholding these constitutional restraints to federal law making abuses that are not legitimate to the Constitutional restrictions clearly stated within it.
EconomicMayhem thank you for sharing that press release. We believe it's essential for people to resist this garbage...
i mean are our congress-people(?) dumb as dirt or dumber than dirt? do they believe that They are exempt from becoming a disappeared-one? or are they too busy partying to care?
How often have I got to post on here ,There are Progressive Socialist on both sides of the Isle... Let John McCain call me down and deny that he postures his calling and intent after this form of Government... He left Sarah Palin hanging and bearing the brunt of most of the failure to stand up to the Muslim Prince when he ran with her against Obummer and Foot in Mouth Joe Biden...The Socialist have been slowly taking power since the late 1800s... I pray God, to bless us with a man who will stand against this mob and unhinge them from our Government !!!!!!!!!
Its about time that the State leaders of all 50 ( or Obamas number which ever is right), found the calling that was granted to them in this great Writ from God through Man!!!! The Leaders in D.C. are absent from our person by distance and closed process when they do business... All we the people see and hear it the mini subjects that seem important to the News media...The Federal branches wre going to take as much power and keep it as long as the States are pansy butted and allow them to take and keep from the States and we the People !!!
Senator John McCain, a republican, is one of the two Senators who wrote the NDAA. It's not just democrats it's most all politicians in Congress, it had to get through both houses and the House of representatives which is controlled by republicans passed it. more democrats in the house of Reps voted against it than Republicans.
Eastern El Paso County Colorado was the FIRST to pass a law stating that this would NOT happen.
....and states shouldn't stop resisting this law until ALL have signed on to protect their states rights. Only the democrats would have come up with such a preposterous bill in order to keep the truth quiet. To think that in America, we have a law that sends people to detainment camps and / or puts them to death for speaking the truth is comparable to genocide. God Bless America.....PLEASE!!!
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