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# 20. Reinstitution of Civil Rights-Repeal of the NDAA

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Dec 082011

Reinstitution of Civil Rights Including the Repeal of the NDAA. Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, legislation has been enacted to curtail the privacy and civil rights of American citizens. Foremost among these laws is the Patriot Act of 2001 and more recently, portions of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) wherein the government may or may not require the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens suspected of planning or assisting “belligerent” acts against the United States. Under the current NDAA, civilian citizens of the United States may be indefinitely held, without review or oversight, in military detention and tried before a military tribunal without access to family, friends or an attorney. This terrifying law could easily be abused in a time of crisis to make people “disappear.” President Obama’s shameful decision to sign this law effectively repeals the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, The Bail Reform Act, suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus and violates at least the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Patriot Act has allowed for the increased surveillance of American citizens and CIA access to confidential credit reports, school records, communication records, Internet activity, and other personal information, without consent or notification. We call upon the United States government to repeal those portions of the Patriot Act that limit the civil rights of American citizens and repeal the aforementioned sections of the National Defense Authorization Act.

“It was quiet in the cell. [he] heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling.” ―Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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### 25 Responses to “20. Reinstitution of Civil Rights-Repeal of the NDAA”

1. personhood says:
   2012/01/31 at 8:09 pm

   • Ratify Equal Rights for Women by the remaining states in the 2012 election.
   Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
   • Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
   • Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.[

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2. Adamd says:
   2012/01/24 at 2:33 am

   I agree with this 100%. This must be done immediately!

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3. valleyforge1 says:
   2012/01/19 at 4:56 pm

   Someone please answer this question. I believe the Judicial Branch was formed to evaluate “bills” for Constitutionality. If found unconstitutional it was dead. We should be demanding that the Judicial Branch do it’s job. There should be no partanship as they are elected for life for a reason. Why did the Patriot Act become law??? Judicial Branch didn’t do it’s job. Why is this new thing even considered?? The Constitution Has served America for over 250 years, until now with the rich genetic defectives wanting to destroy it. WE ARE AMERICA BECAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION NOT INSPITE OF IT. The last Republican President was a traitor….. I consider ANYONE that refers to the Constituion as “..just a piece of paper” a traitor. Especially after they have taken an oath in which they ” affirm/swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic.
   One last thing, this law would allow the gov’t to declare milita groups terrorists and incarcerate all of them. Step 2 terrorist handbook… remove the intellectuals and free thinkers.

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4. etburdette says:
   2012/01/12 at 2:25 am

   This should include closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Not sure whether to create new grievance or file it under this one.

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5. robdinsmore says:
   2012/01/11 at 11:01 am

   I hate to be the contrarian, but we have to consider both sides of the issue here. Domestic terrorism by US citizens is a real threat, just remember Oklahoma City in 1995. 168 people died as a result of US citizens who committed a very egregious act of terrorism.

   The government is not trying to remove our civil liberties, they are trying to prevent things like this from happening again. If the feds were monitoring Timothy McVeigh in the months leading up to the bombing they would have seen a lot of suspicious activity but would not have anything to really charge him with. You can’t arrest someone for amassing materials that may be used to build a bomb, because by themselves they are just chemicals that have other purposes like fertilizers. One of the purposes of the NDAA is to close this loophole.

   The problem is that it appears to do so at the expense of very basic civil rights. The government wants the legal authority to detain extremely suspicious people that they only have circumstantial evidence on because they value American lives more than they value the rights of the individual that they suspect may be planning a terrorist attack. Honestly I don’t know what is right here. These type of attacks are often years in the making, so following someone around looking for the smoking gun is not really practical either. It’s not as black and white as some seem to think it is.

   You really can’t demand a full repeal of the NDAA without understanding that intent. Also it does not really change the law with respect to American citizens. From what I understand the two contentious provisions say that they either do not apply to US citizens/ residents on US soil, or that they do not change the law with respect to US residents on US soil. The powers to arrest and detain US citizens falls under the AUMF(?) which was drafted after 9/11. Maybe it needs to be amended to allow detainees access to lawyers and some form of due process, including a huge financial settlement and some sort of career restoration if they are found to be detained without reason.

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   - valleyforge1 says:
     2012/01/19 at 4:46 pm

     I beg to differ. The United States of America (under real Americans)has weathered much worse. We have had dissidents and reactionaries throughout history: without inpinging on the civil rights of all. Case in point the SDS….weathermen etc. In fact only by use of the cowardize of the ignorant are they even “trying to destroy the Constitution.” If I had been a serious terrorist The “Twin Towers” would have been the last target. These clowns are not as ignorant as you would presume. There are more effective ‘soft targets’ that could be attacked and never securde against another attack. These targets would have significantly affected our economy… more than the towers. We had German and Italian spies.. but we choose the intere the Japanese. How did that effect the outcome of WWII??? When the Gov’t restricts the rights of the people.. the terrorists win. Revolution 101. Get the people to revolt by having the Gov’t oppress the people with tighter and tighter restrictions.

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   - kforthun says:
     2012/01/22 at 12:06 am

     Interesting take, I wonder what sources your using for some of the information. I really like your ideas about amendments.

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6. wethepeople says:
   2012/01/10 at 3:11 pm

   Civil rights should include more as people have already said. We have been growing as a nation and have been eliminating laws that discriminate against equality.
   Example; freeing slaves, womens right ect.
   Maybe add…”All people to be treated fairly and/or equally”
   ….again. History repeats itself, but hopefully people realize it by now and stop it

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   - kforthun says:
     2012/01/22 at 1:37 am

     This is great! The problem with laws of this nature are, there is still racism and sexism even though those laws are in place… It is taking more than laws, bills and amendments to eradicate inequality from our society, they do help in pushing us forward but our values, attitudes, beliefs, institutions and systems uphold this inequity. There are many brilliant people speaking about equality but they are seen as radical and people get mad when they are asked to question their own privilege. You see for people to be ‘under-privileged, there has to be people who are ‘over-privileged’ but you will here no mention of the latter, you can’t even google that phenomena!

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7. supremec says:
   2011/12/30 at 11:43 pm

   The Patriot Act… that’s it? What about article 1, sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution? Ex post facto should apply to ALL legislation.

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8. karlmarx says:
   2011/12/23 at 1:58 am

   I think that Marriage Equality is a big Civil Right issue in regards to “gay and lesbian couples”

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9. Sue says:
   2011/12/20 at 3:52 pm

   Which “Content of the Petition” is the financial page???

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   - karlie says:
     2011/12/20 at 5:10 pm

     The Financial Transparency page is under the About link in the menu. It is not part of the Content of the Petition.

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10. stephan geras says:
    2011/12/16 at 9:55 pm

    the national defense authorization act is a budget for the military in addition to procedural and structural determinants. The military is a bloated old warhorse. The whole defense act needs to be gutted.

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11. Sue says:
    2011/12/12 at 8:07 am

    I totally agree, Patrick. I wanted to bring the topic to the 99 attention. I have left the details to you.

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12. Patrick Drazen says:
    2011/12/11 at 7:00 pm

    The Declaration of Independence describes human rights as the divinely endowed and unalienable possessions of all people. To me, this means:

    All people must be presumed to have these rights, while no corporation, legal combine, or other commercial entity can possess human rights.

    Human rights shall not be subject to a popular or governmental vote which would have the effect of limiting or stripping such rights; when this happens, they stop being rights and become entitlements, to be bestowed or removed by others according to the whim of the moment.

    The Declaration also states that the purpose of government is “to secure these rights”, and not to abridge them by vote, legislation, judicial ruling, or other means; neither is government to limit these rights on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, education, criminal history, physical disability, nationality or any other reason. The goals of a democratic government can only be achieved by beginning with universal and unalienable rights for the citizenry, without excluding or favoring any group apart from the others. These rights should be considered to be conferred in full on a minor when said minor reaches their eighteenth birthday.

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    - Gambit says:
      2011/12/17 at 8:57 am

      That was so well worded that it may not be possible to improve upon it.

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    - smlgjohn says:
      2011/12/23 at 9:45 pm

      I agree I love this wording great job Patrick

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    - personhood says:
      2012/02/07 at 1:23 am

      I think it said all men, not all people.

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13. Sue says:
    2011/12/11 at 5:59 pm

    Hey boys! How about a “content of redress” for women’s rights? Right to an abortion as prescribed under Roe v. Wade, 1973. Right to birth control, including Plan B, etc.
    If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

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    - Patrick Drazen says:
      2011/12/11 at 11:14 pm

      The civil rights available to a woman should not be limited to the medical rights. Those rights should include the right to own property in her own right, the right to a salary equal to that of a coworker regardless of gender, and (under point 6 guarantees of healthcare) the right to medical consultation and treatment based on medical science and not on the gender of the patient or the religious beliefs of the practitioner.

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    - valleyforge1 says:
      2012/01/22 at 12:45 am

      I like that. lol. I guess I would be too much into compromise. Like NO late term abortions unless the mother’s life or health is in danger. Only 2 or maybe 3 abortions in a lifetime. I mean really if you haven’t figured out that you are pregnant by the third trimester… then maybe I would change my mind and allow abortion and termination of the mother… the gene pool is already polluted as indicated by the number of “Teabaggers”. Birth control to be available and the morning after pill. education to be made available to all. I mean just say no?!?!? LMAO. That doesn’t work in countries that stone the pregnant woman as an ‘Adultress.”

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14. AGNES WILLIAMS says:
    2011/12/10 at 6:26 pm

    Thank you for this movement. I am secretly implanted with two radio frequency identification chips and voice synthesizer after 2001. use on me till today in my home town Fontana CA and nationwide.

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    - valleyforge1 says:
      2012/01/22 at 12:46 am

      Sorry no Teabaggers allowed in the discussion.

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15. AGNES WILLIAMS says:
    2011/12/10 at 6:22 pm

    Thank you for this movement. I am secretly implanted with radio frequency identification chips and voice synthesizer after 2001. still use on me till today, in my home town Fontana CA and nationwide.

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