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GASMETERGUY — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:35:52 GMT

<br />Now we have this attempt. What part of the First Amendment do our leaders not get?<br

Comment #1

time*treat — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:41:31 GMT

Be sure to read the second half of the article. Twice.

Original Blog Entry: U.S. Dist Judge: Sec 1021 of NDAA unconstitutional

time*treat — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:34:49 GMT

Chris Hedges Defeats Imprisonment For Speech (NDAA SEC 1021)

http://www.youtube.com/user/wepollock

A Victory for All of Us: by Chris Hedges

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in a 68-page opinion, ruled Wednesday [May 16, 2012] that Section 1021 of the NDAA was unconstitutional. It was a stunning and monumental victory. With her ruling she returned us to a country where as it was before Obama signed this act into law Dec. 31 the government cannot strip a U.S. citizen of due process or use the military to arrest him or her and then hold him or her in military prison indefinitely. She categorically rejected the government s claims that the plaintiffs did not have the standing to bring the case to trial because none of us had been indefinitely detained, that lack of imminent enforcement against us meant there was no need for an injunction and that the NDAA simply codified what had previously been set down in the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act. The ruling was a huge victory for the protection of free speech. Judge Forrest struck down language in the law that she said gave the government the ability to incarcerate people based on what they said or wrote. Maybe the ruling won t last. Maybe it will be overturned. But we and other Americans are freer today than we were a week ago. And there is something in this.

The government lawyers, despite being asked five times by the judge to guarantee that we plaintiffs would not be charged under the law for our activities, refused to give any assurances. They did not provide assurances because under the law there were none. We could, even they tacitly admitted, be subject to these coercive measures. We too could be swept away into a black hole. And this, I think, decided the case.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_victory_for_all_of_us_20120518/

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