Just so that you are all aware, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act passed in the House late last night. When the president signs it, the United States military has blanket authorization to treat american soil as a battleground, and can detain indefinitely, interrogate, and execute you, without charges or trial. No big deal. Just fyi. You now officially live under martial law.

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

windatyourfeels:

thewatchtowerproject:

mohandasgandhi:

disobey:

Dustin R. Snyder

Okay, no, this isn’t true. Part of the reason why I downplayed the severity of the NDAA initially is because of all the panic and misinformation the reactionaries proliferated.

The U.S. military does not have BLANKET AUTHORIZATION to treat the United States as a battleground nor can they execute citizens without charges or trial. The NDAA creates loopholes that bypass our civil judiciary system to deal with U.S. citizens declared as “enemy combatants” in military courts. Civilians are not left without legal tools to contest their status as an “enemy combatant” but the NDAA has made it a hell of a lot more difficult to do so and it allows for the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to be an afterthought. The U.S. military does not decide policy nor does is execute policy without orders from the upper levels of the Executive branch and the NDAA makes it very clear who issues those orders.

I honestly don’t have the time to fully explain why, although the NDAA as it is now is absolutely horrific, statements such as the above are incorrect. Constitutional law isn’t black and white and it’s ridiculous to make such fear-mongering statements with little explanation.

Congratulations on not understanding our judicial system or the NDAA at all, I guess.

^ Thank you to mohandasgandhi for clarifying that.  This is really important, guys.

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