Forum Post: The scaffolding of an American police state
Posted 12 years ago on Jan. 6, 2012, 1:45 a.m. EST by OldCrow
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."....Justice Louis Brandeis
The scaffolding of an American police state
6 January 2012
With his December 31 signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), allowing for indefinite military detention without charges or trial, Barack Obama has made an infamous contribution to the steady march towards police-state dictatorship in the United States. The sweeping implications of this act, pushed through to provide $662 billion to feed the US war machine, could not be concealed by the shamefaced signing ceremony, held in private and late in the day on New Year’s Eve to minimize media coverage and public attention. Nor is the objective content of the clauses legalizing the military’s locking up of American citizens and non-citizens alike on the sole say-so of the White House changed in the slightest by the hypocritical signing statement the president issued in enacting the legislation...
This will be very profitable for the 1%.
what are these points beside my name?
Dammit!! Obama is the new Lincoln! What are we gonna do?!
A military coup, plain and simple.