Obama Signs NDAA, Goodbye 4th Amendment

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President Obama signed the National Defense Appropriation Act, a law that ends the 4th Amendment in the United States unless the Supreme Court overturns it.

He offered this explanation.

The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

Here is a man with a law degree telling us that he signed a bill into law, despite serious reservations. Who cares what reservations he has? He signed it into law.

Then he added this PR fluff.

Over the last several years, my Administration has developed an effective, sustainable framework for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected terrorists that allows us to maximize both our ability to collect intelligence and to incapacitate dangerous individuals in rapidly developing situations, and the results we have achieved are undeniable. Our success against al-Qa’ida and its affiliates and adherents has derived in significant measure from providing our counterterrorism professionals with the clarity and flexibility they need to adapt to changing circumstances and to utilize whichever authorities best protect the American people, and our accomplishments have respected the values that make our country an example for the world.

http://visiontoamerica.org/6849/obama-signs-the-ndaa-goodbye-4th-amendment/



 


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Comments

Avatar time*treat -
#1
He certainly has any "soft on ter'rizm" critics locked up ... figuratively, not literally. Not yet.
Avatar JADELottery -
#2
Terrorism is Myth.

Keep playing the part of a Victim and you keep the Myth Going.

Fear Don't Go Around Here! YA Hear!
Avatar JADELottery -
#3
keep in mind, the original spirit of the Constitution can be observed and enacted by Anyone.

This abomination (Obama-nation) of a law isn't worth the paper it's wiped on.
Avatar Todd -
#4
What makes it worse is the fact that he signed it knowing that FUTURE presidents will have that power he "disagrees with". A president does not just sign a bill for himself, he does it also for future generations. But this president only thinks about himself. Every other word is "I" or "me".
Avatar Rick G -
#5
This law is null and void. The basis of constitutional law is that no law can be in conflict with the Constitution. This law is in conflict with the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments.

As expressed in the Sixteenth American Jurisprudence Second Edition, Section 177:

"The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

'The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.'

'Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no right, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it...'

'A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.'
'No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.'"

and as expressed once again in the U.S. Constitution, Article VI:

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."
Avatar JADELottery -
#6
Todd, that is an excellent point. Maybe he is self conscious of the fact he knows what he is doing is wrong.
Avatar Boney526 -
#7
Rick G's point is really the ultimate point. The Constitution is Supreme Law of the Land. All laws contradicting it are by definition, null and void.

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