Obama Drops Veto Threat as Indefinite Detention Bill is Voted
December 15, 2011 1 Comment
Paul J. Watson
Infowars.com
December 15, 2011
Obama has dropped his threat to veto the bill and is now expected to sign it into law. Remember – it was Obama’s White House that demanded the law apply to U.S. citizens in the first place.
The bill which would codify into law the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens is about to be passed and sent to Obama’s desk to be signed into law, even as some news outlets still erroneously report that the legislation does not apply to U.S. citizens.
“The House on Wednesday afternoon approved the rule for the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), setting up an hour of debate and a vote in the House later this afternoon,” reports the Hill.
Mainstream news outlets like The Hill, as well as neo-con blogs like Red State, are still pretending the indefinite detention provision doesn’t apply to American citizens, even though three of the bill’s primary sponsors, Senator Carl Levin, Senator John McCain, and Senator Lindsey Graham, said it does during speeches on the Senate floor.
“It is not unfair to make an American citizen account for the fact that they decided to help Al Qaeda to kill us all and hold them as long as it takes to find intelligence about what may be coming next,” remarked Graham. “And when they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’”
As Levin said last week, it was the White House itself that demanded Section 1031 apply to American citizens.
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And this guy thinks he deserves to be reelected P.O.T.U.S. Perhaps Dr. Paul would be a better man to run this country. Perhaps he’d start the clean up of the cesspool there in Washington. “O” just keeps on betraying the people of the U.S.A., for what ever reason[s], probably because he’s a member of the 1 % club and wants to stay there. Just what we need, another ex-P.O.T.U.S. war criminal out on the money circuit.