The USA, Formerly The Land Of The Free

"Give me your tired, your poor, 

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. 

The wretched refuse of you teamming shore. 

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, 

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 

This poem is called the New Colossus 

and it was written by Emma Lazarus.

It has all been a lie hasn't it. 


Somewhat hidden in a defense bill which contained 680 pages of appropriations of money, which by the way is more money than almost all countries combined, are laws affecting our citizens.


Here is a quick summation of what is happening.



The National Defense Authorization Act will make it official. It will confer upon the executive branch and the military (increasingly, the same things) the permanent authority to snatch and grab any person, U.S. citizens included, whom it decrees to be a “terrorist” – as defined or not by the executive or the military -  and imprison them, indefinitely, without formal charge, presentation of evidence or judicial proceeding of any kind. These “detainees” will have neither civilian rights in the civil court system, nor – crucially – even the minimal rights... to due process and decent treatment conferred upon prisoners of war. (And we are allegedly “at war,” are we not?)

The language of the bill specifically includes American citizens “caught” within the borders of the United States – aka, the “battlefield.” It is claimed by sponsors that only those awful them – you know, the enemies of freedom and his successors like to reference as they systematically gut our freedoms – need worry. But read the actual document, and be afraid. The wording is such that any shyster lawyer for the government will be able to draw up a memorandum at some point in the near future equating, say, criticism of the federal government’s policies in the Middle East with “substantially supporting” the enemies of the United States. As defined by the United States.

The funny thing is those who voted to pass this bill assume they will not be affected by this new law. All citizens in this country are affected. More or less anywhere in the world!



The Names Of Those Who Voted For Indefinite Detention


Alphabetical by Senator Name

Akaka (D-HI), Yea Alexander (R-TN), Yea Ayotte (R-NH), Yea Barrasso (R-WY), Yea Baucus (D-MT), Yea Begich (D-AK), Yea Bennet (D-CO), Yea Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea Blunt (R-MO), Yea Boozman (R-AR), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Yea Brown (D-OH), Yea Brown (R-MA), Yea Burr (R-NC), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Cardin (D-MD), Nay Carper (D-DE), Yea Casey (D-PA), Yea Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Coats (R-IN), Yea Coburn (R-OK), Nay Cochran (R-MS), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Conrad (D-ND), Yea Coons (D-DE), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Nay DeMint (R-SC), Nay Durbin (D-IL), Nay Enzi (R-WY), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Franken (D-MN), Nay

Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea Grassley (R-IA), Yea Hagan (D-NC), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay Hatch (R-UT), Yea Heller (R-NV), Yea Hoeven (R-ND), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea Johanns (R-NE), Yea Johnson (D-SD), Yea Johnson (R-WI), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Kirk (R-IL), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Kyl (R-AZ), Yea Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Lee (R-UT), Nay Levin (D-MI), Yea Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea Manchin (D-WV), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea McCaskill (D-MO), Yea McConnell (R-KY), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea Merkley (D-OR), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Yea

Moran (R-KS), Not Voting Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea Paul (R-KY), Nay Portman (R-OH), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea Risch (R-ID), Nay Roberts (R-KS), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Rubio (R-FL), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Yea Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shaheen (D-NH), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Tester (D-MT), Yea Thune (R-SD), Yea Toomey (R-PA), Yea Udall (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-NM), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Yea Warner (D-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea Wicker (R-MS), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Nay http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00230