Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 17, 2012 at 10:33 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog

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The corporate media blacks out news that a federal judge has struck down NDAA powers that allow the government to US citizens in jail indefinitely without charge or trial.

Yesterday a federal judge has
blocked the ability of the U.S. Government to enforce the indefinite detentionprovision of the National Defense Authorization Act Section 1021.

The provision allows the government to throw anyone, including US citizens, in secret military jails to be tortured for as long as they want without ever having to file chargesor provide the slightest bit of evidence to prove the charges you are being detained for.

Of course, if you happened to be
found innocent  or later vindicated for only doing something that is normally protected as free speech
such as uploading a video to YouTubeyou have no legal right to recourse do to the government’s “National Security” card.

Last night, Judge Katherine Forrest ruled that it violated not one but two amendments to the Constitution.

She ruled it violated the First Amendment’s right to free speech because
journalists are being silenced and activists are being prevented from engaging in expressive activities critical of the government.

The Judge also ruled it violates the Fifth Amendment’s right to due process, that part of the constitution that says you have a right to a trial and other legal protections offered through the court system.

But the mainstream media was too busy today providing wall-to-wall coverage of the “important” cases about sex scandals with former movie stars and washed up politicians.

Meanwhile, the US congress is hammering out the 2013 NDAA which will only further expand the government’s totalitarian powers.

Of course they would be, since they have repeatedly brainwashed the public into believing the government needs to be able to lock up anyone for as long as they want and even torture or assassinate them to keep us safe from the bogey man.