Court Rubber Stamps Use of NDAA

YummRikan media blackout as judges OK implementation of NDAA. Indefinite detention without evidence, charges, or cause.

Carton by Tim Kelly

Five weeks ago it was made public how a pillar of American journalism, New York Times took clearance from CIA before criticizing the POTUS.

Instead of being a check on the executive, the US judiciary has a 200-year history of rubber stamping the worst excesses of the GOTUS – slavery, discrimination, segregation, restricting non-English education.

Allowing implementation of NDAA is another in that long list.

No major news agency or newspaper has reported on the judicial order after a copy became available in the last 12 hours. The original order was passed on September 18th, 2012.

The US judiciary has again rubber-stamped the excesses of the US executive.

NDAA cartoon by Kip Lyall

Today an appeals court ruled the U.S. can enforce the National Defense Authorization Act‘s indefinite detention clause while the court decides whether to kill or allow the provisions, Josh Gerstein of Politico reports.

A three-judge motions panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit concluded “the public interest weighs in favor of granting the government’s motion

Last month District Judge Katherine Forrest permanently blocked the NDAA, but the Obama administration has appealed her ruling.

Appeals Court Judges Denny Chin, Raymond Lohier, and Christopher Droney agreed with the government that the plaintiffs – journalists and activists – “are in no danger whatsoever of ever being captured and detained by the U.S. military” because the NDAA doesn’t “affect the existing rights of United States citizens or other individuals arrested in the United States.”

The plaintiffs had successfully argued to Judge Forrest that some provisions of the indefinite detention clause are so vague they would chill free speech and restrict the ability to associate with people the government doesn’t like.

via Court Extends Suspension Of Order To Block The NDAA – Business Insider.

NDAA protest

Related Articles

• Court Says The Obama Administration Can Still Detain Anybody Indefinitely (businessinsider.com)
• Court extends stay on NDAA (politico.com)
• Appeals Court Extends NDAA Indefinite Detention Powers (thenewamerican.com)
• Court upholds NDAA; stay extended on indefinite detention injunction (rt.com)
• Indefinite Detention Ban Stayed By Appeals Judge In NDAA Case (huffingtonpost.com)

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Neutron bomb was the perfect weapon

Weapons to retain and get 'things'. (Cartoonist and ©Copyright 2006 Brian Adcock; Cartoon courtesy-caglecartoons.com). Click for larger image.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan ordered 700 neutron warheads built to oppose Soviet tank forces in Europe. He called it “the first weapon that’s come along in a long time that could easily and economically alter the balance of power.” But deployment to the North Atlantic alliance was canceled after a storm of antinuclear protests across Europe. President George Bush ordered the stockpile scrapped.

By 1982, Mr. Cohen had abandoned his deployment quest. But he continued for the rest of his life to defend the bomb as practical and humane.

“It’s the most sane and moral weapon ever devised,” he said in September in a telephone interview for this obituary. “It’s the only nuclear weapon in history that makes sense in waging war. When the war is over, the world is still intact.”

Samuel Theodore Cohen was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1921, to Lazarus and Jenny Cohen, Austrian Jews who had migrated to the United States by way of Britain. His father was a carpenter and his mother a housewife who rigidly controlled family diets and even breathing habits (believing it unhealthy to breathe through the mouth). The boy had allergies, eye problems and other ailments, and for years was subjected to daily ice-water showers to toughen him up.

In recent years, Mr. Cohen prominently warned of a black market substance called red mercury, supposedly capable of compressing fusion materials to detonate a nuclear device as small as a baseball — ideal for terrorists. (read more via Samuel T. Cohen, Neutron Bomb Inventor, Dies at 89 – NYTimes.com).

 

Weapons to gain military superiority for imposing authority - and not for self defence. (Cartoonist - Joel Pett; published on- 12-4-2010; courtesy - cartoonistgroup.com). Click for larger image.

What is the problem

Buildings, land, raw material, machines, infrastructure, ports, roads, airports – things are important. All these things will not be affected by a neutron bomb. The perfect weapon, ever.

People are the problem. Eliminate people. Neutron bomb was the perfect weapon for the perfect war.

Desert Bloc philosophy in short.