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In reply to the discussion: NDAA 2013 - Indefinite detention without trial is back [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)You speak as if you do and that it is a trifle. Go march with Occupy or unions or any freedom fighters and get beaten up by cops and you'll learn very quickly that things are not as they seem in this country and that they must immediately be brought back to Constitutional values. Obama said to Egypt at the beginning of the Arab Spring, to respect and treat well their protesters. Since then, 7400+ US Occupiers have been beaten and arrested with not a single peep from the white house. Silence is complicity. Worse; DHS has been "watching" Occupy from day one, according to FOI-attained documents. A DHS head, Peter King, outright calls Occupy "losers". With friendly federal agencies such as this against the Bill of Rights...
Did you see the articles this week regarding hidden microphones on public buses to record conversations, or armed SWAT teams in Arkansas who are going to "protect" citizens by asking for ID? Or the 64 drone bases being built inside the US from which to "monitor" us because we're obviously all terrorists (or, because someone is becoming ludicrously rich through selling these technologies?)...