There is a bill being debated in Congress today or tomorrow called the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Basically, the bill says if you are a suspected terrorist you can be arrested and held indefinitely. This is supposed to be America, you know land of the free, and home of the brave? Here is an article that explains the bill a little better: Secret Bill To Be Voted On Today Would Allow The Military To Sweep Up US Citizens At Home Or Abroad
This is scary
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My suggestion is don't be a suspected terrorist! Joking aside, it's interesting to see what our government can keep coming up with to make our great country so much better. Seems to me like they have a failing record as of lately.
Kind of Crowl. The thing with this is it's just like Mcarthyism (sp?) and the witch hunts someone can say you are acting suspiciously (with no reason whatsoever...maybe you just made them mad), and now you can be arrested and detained with no probable cause. There is no arrest warrant or search warrant that has to be signed by a judge. You can just be held indefinitely with no rights to legal council. This is NOT a good thing for anybody.
SOPA (Stop Online Pircay Act) is not a good thing for us either, but the National Defense Authorization Act, and The Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act are working hand in hand to strip of us of ALL our Constitutional protections. I am amazed at how well our Congress has gotten at hiding these bills...there has been no real mention of any of them in the main stream media.
The world has become a very scary place, and like Gilbo said now the US seems to be catching up to the rest of the world. I love the Before it's news website and often find things discussed there MONTHS before you here anything on a regular news site. One article I read today relates to all three bills Luke mentioned. I will try and link it here, but links to BIN don't always work. This article is long, but well worth your time. Here it is: Before It's News
I have a friend who lives in the UK, well Wales. Moved there about 5 years ago, and tells me the US now feels like a police state compared to there. Although some of things there are scary, such as all the video cameras. He had a friend get a ticket in the mail for dropping a cigarette butt on the grown, because the video caught it along with the license plate.
Edgar Casey made a prophecy that the United States will become like Russia, and Russia will become more like the US. Makes me wonder if he was right on that one.
That's nothing BigHelp...what about the bid to put an anti-terrorism button on blogs and all google platforms? That hasn't passed yet, but it is being discussed. Oh, and if you own more than seven days worth of food in your home you might be a terrorist. That one really gets me because government websites encourage having 2-3 weeks worth of food and water for your family.