JFlorio wrote:
War powers act allows these congressional cowards to say they didn’t agree with a war if it goes South.
We cannot stop now calling our senators about the checks on the War Powers allotment to Congress, the enemy within is nibbling away at the rest of our Constitution. Rand Paul and Mike Lee have an amendment to the upcoming renewal of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) to end this indefinite detention nonsense of American citizens obliterating habeas corpus:
Senate tees up final v**e next week on defense policy bill
by Travis J. Tritten | June 14, 2018 03:05 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/senate-tees-up-final-v**e-next-week-on-defense-policy-bill"The Senate v**ed Thursday to bring debate to a close on its $716 billion annual defense policy bill and tee up the mammoth measure for final passage next week.
"A week of wrangling over whether to v**e on a measure pushed by Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, prohibiting indefinite detention of U.S. terror suspects derailed amendment v**es on the National Defense Authorization Act. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., blocked the measure, as he has for the past six years..."
It is my understanding that 68 senators backed the Lee/Paull amendment to restore some of the Bill of Right's 5th Amendment. You gotta read this article to fully comprehend who the NDAA sees as a homegrown threat to our Republic. It's crazy. We need to call our senators again on this one:
https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Rule-by-fear-or-rule-by-law-3229509.phpRule by Fear or Rule by Law?
Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg
Published 4:00 am, Monday, February 4, 2008
[After detailing the construction of 50 US Detention Centers by Homeland Security contracting Haliburton's KBR, the article continues as who is construed as the "enemy within"]:
"According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping investigative power to combat it.
"A clue as to where Harman's commission might be aiming is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who "engage in sit-ins, civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal rights" as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be anti-a******n protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists, environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights supporters ... the list goes on and on. According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month. "What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?
"The Constitution does not allow the executive to have unchecked power under any circumstances. The people must not allow the president to use the war on terrorism to rule by fear instead of by law."