Impeachment

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http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-outrage-continues-to-grow-online-2012-1

Jonathan Turley in The Guardian (UK): "President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country … and citizens partied in unwitting bliss into the New Year.
Ironically, in addition to breaking his promise not to sign the law, Obama broke his promise on signing statements and attached a statement that he really does not want to detain citizens indefinitely."
Petitions and online protests like this one, which call for the impeachment of Obama and recall of Senators who voted in favor of NDAA, are also beginning to appear.
This should be an interesting year. If you don't see any future articles or tweets from me, you'll know I've been relocated to the Guantanamo Beach Club.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-outrage-continues-to-grow-online-2012-1#ixzz1iQ3FOoTm

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And yet our media, here in the United States, somehow doesn't find a bill that ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO DETAIN AND TORTURE ITS OWN CITIZENS WITHOUT ACCESS TO A TRIAL OR ATTORNEY worthy of airtime? They'd rather flex their investigative journalism muscles trying to figure out why Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorced?
Anderson Cooper and CNN: not covering the NDAA.
Chris Matthews and MSNBC: not covering the NDAA.
The anchors at FOX News: not covering the NDAA. (I even tweeted FOX anchor Bret Baier and asked him why his network wasn't covering this issue. "We have," he shot back. I must have blinked when that coverage aired, Mr. Baier.)
The US cable news industry, including FOX, cannot claim they don't know about this issue. They can't really claim ignorance, can they? Thousands of Americans have been begging them via email and Twitter to give this treasonous, dangerous bill -- which "was drafted in secret, with no hearing, and with committee votes behind closed doors" (source: ACLU) -- the attention it deserves.
As a user tweeted to Anderson Cooper's account earlier today, "One thing the American people care about is #NDAA you and the majority of the mainstream media completely ignore it."
And another user asked CNN's most prominent personality: "Why are you not covering #SOPA and #NDAA? Ridiculist of the year? If you're not covering #SOPA or #NDAA THAT is RIDICULOUS!!"


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-years-eve-2012-ndaa-fears-remain-2011-12#ixzz1iQ7hsrpd