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Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''The NDAA implodes our most cherished constitutional protections. It permits the military to function on US soil as a civilian law enforcement agency. It authorizes the executive branch to order the military to selectively suspend due process and habeas corpus for citizens. The law can be used to detain people deemed threats to national security, including dissidents whose rights were once protected under the First Amendment, and hold them until what is termed 'the end of the hostilities.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8095-chris-hedges-|-totalitarian-systems-always-begin-by-rewriting-the-law

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How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian s Nightmare

By Steven Rosenfeld

''We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national security state.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31120.htm



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