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SB 1867: Written By an Ultra-left Democrat and a RINO. Does it Usurp the Bill of Rights?

By Editor-in-Chief on December 15, 2011

The U.S. Senate approved a bill on December 2 that will allow the military to arrest Americans on American soil and hold them indefinitely.  A provision of SB 1867, or the National Defense Authorization Act bill, written by Senators John McCain and Carl Levin, declares American soil a battlefield and allows the President and all future Chief Executives to order the military to arrest and detain American citizens, innocent or not, without charge or trial. Is SB 1867 an important tool in the War on Terror?

The buzz around the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, SB 1867, has been growing for months now. Rumors say the bill would allow the military to capture and detain without trial U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

This bill was written in secret and approved by committee without a single hearing. This provision does have opponents. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill and even Ron Paul is concerned enough to bring it up during one of the GOP debates. An amendment called the Udall Amendment has been offered by Democratic Senator Mark Udall that would delete the dangerous provision.

The text of the bill is more confusing, mainly because it’s so long. However, some legislators such as Senator Paul believe the offending part is Sec. 1032 (a), which states that the military “shall” hold a person captured in the course of the war on terror in military custody until the military can determine the person’s disposition under the law of war.

There does not appear to be a territorial limitation on this directive, so it probably also applies within the United States. Sec. 1032 (b)(1) specifically states that the requirement to take to detain a person in military custody doesn’t extend to U.S. citizens. So, it’s not required, but does that mean it’s still allowable? Is it now OK to detain an American citizen in theU.S. without the traditional protections of the Bill of Rights?

If this bill passes through Congress and the President signs it, OWS protesters or any American could end up arrested and indefinitely locked up by the military without the guaranteed right to due process or a speedy trial.

Is this bill trampling our civil rights or is it a tool for fighting homegrown terrorism?

The following list of names of senators that voted for S.B. 1867.  Both Durbin and Kirk of Illinois voted yes.
D Daniel Akaka HI
R Andrew Alexander TN
R Kelly Ayotte NH
R John Barrasso WY
D Max Baucus MT
D Mark Begich AK
D Michael Bennet CO
D Jesse Bingaman NM
D Richard Blumenthal CT
R Roy Blunt MO
R John Boozman AR
D Barbara Boxer CA
R Scott Brown MA
D Sherrod Brown OH
R Richard Burr NC
D Maria Cantwell WA
D Benjamin Cardin MD
D Thomas Carper DE
D Robert Casey PA
R Clarence Chambliss GA
R Daniel Coats IN
R William Cochran MS
R Susan Collins ME
D Kent Conrad ND
D Christopher Coons DE
R Robert Corker TN
R John Cornyn TX
R Michael Crapo ID
R James DeMint SC
D Richard Durbin IL
R Michael Enzi WY
D Dianne Feinstein CA
D Al Franken MN
D Kirsten Gillibrand NY
R Lindsey Graham SC
R Charles Grassley IA
D Kay Hagan NC
R Orrin Hatch UT
R Dean Heller NV
R John Hoeven ND
R Kathyrn Hutchison TX
R James Inhofe OK
D Daniel Inouye HI
R Johnny Isakson GA
R Mike Johanns NE
R Ron Johnson WI
D Timothy Johnson SD
D John Kerry MA
R Mark Kirk IL
D Amy Klobuchar MN
D Herbert Kohl WI
R Jon Kyl AZ
D Mary Landrieu LA
D Frank Lautenberg NJ
D Patrick Leahy VT
D Carl Levin MI
I Joseph Lieberman CT
R Richard Lugar IN
D Joe Manchin WV
R John McCain AZ
D Claire McCaskill MO
R Addison McConnell KY
D Robert Menéndez NJ
D Barbara Mikulski MD
R Jerry Moran KS
R Lisa Murkowski AK
D Patty Murray WA
D Clarence Nelson FL
D Earl Nelson NE
R Robert Portman OH
D Mark Pryor AR
D John Reed RI
D Harry Reid NV
R James Risch ID
R Charles Roberts KS
D John Rockefeller WV
R Marco Rubio FL
D Charles Schumer NY
R Jefferson Sessions AL
D Jeanne Shaheen NH
R Richard Shelby AL
R Olympia Snowe ME
D Deborah Stabenow MI
D Jon Tester MT
R John Thune SD
R Patrick Toomey PA
D Mark Udall CO
D Thomas Udall NM
R David Vitter LA
D Mark Warner VA
D James Webb VA
D Sheldon Whitehouse RI
R Roger Wicker MS

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  • Marianne

    Where oh where did America become this country of subversives?  And other than ICE where is this story in the media?  The socalled Repubs that signed on to this need to be VOTED out! And McCain has he totally lost it.  Marco Rubio was the poster boy for repubs in the senate.  Glenn Beck called this many months ago, are we as the greatest nation now lost?

    • http://www.ice-news.net Editor-in-Chief

      You hit the nail on the head, Marianne. The GOP needs to vote out the RINOs in our midsts.

  • ConservativeTea

    This is simply a plan for the elections to be suspended following the union-sponsored riots that will take place next summer. I truly cannot see America troops firing at American citizens and I am concerned that it may be the military that will have to remove Obama from the White House. The Occupy movement was Astro-turfed by the unions and their goal is to keep their buddy Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania dishing out the money to them.  This is a total overreach and we need to make Dick Durbin pay for it in 2014 and get rid of Obama in 2012–it can’t come soon enough.  Posse Comitatus is not something to be overturned and they need to fix this bill or dump it.  God forbid it becomes the law of the land–our freedom is being methodically taken away and we must fight back if we want our way of life to survive.  I am very proud of how Americans have restrained themselves and waited for elections to send their message, and now more than ever, cooler heads must prevail.

  • James

    A great deal of intelligent discussion is missing the point of this bill. The directive is clearly an unconstitutional bias to civil liberties and should be handled as a form of treason. Another point that fails to make clear in the news media or subversive Bloggers claiming to know or even justify fear among the populace is the Shadow Government who is really running the show. There’s no mention of the secret deals that our politicians are making to be preserved by the elite when a nuclear holocaust is provoked or elements of a New World Order put into effect. FEMA camps and Fussion Centers are popping up all over the US, the facts are not being covered and the news has been served numerous gag orders. These are all fingers from the hand of the puppet master. The debts incurred from wars in this country are still being paid off by US citizens and the financiers who funded the strikes, made trillions on oil, military contracts on both sides. What’s more treasonous than bank rolling a war from both sides. The elite know that war is the most profitable business in the world. And as a citizen who opposes war as they should is a threat to this operation. The sharing of information on the Internet is also under fire by the same people who support this anti-Human Rights Bill. Often, I get into dialog with many who agree these laws designed to counter terrorism are not just unconstitutional but also infringements upon Human Rights. Yes, this is a Human Rights Violation. When the chips are down and budgets are cut, it’s the blood of people that must be shed to pay for the debts of war. People in the US Military are property of the US Government. They are the goons for the cronies who take orders from the elite. Underground cities and bases await those whom the elite have chartered to accept the call. While we, the common citizen folk are escorted out of our homes into the backs of trucks and trailer cars to be subjected to slavery or elimination by the powers to be. Everything has been an experimentation on the human race to see how far they could push us before we break down and submit. Peace by force is no peace at all. It’s control and if not mass suicide. People in this country will lose it if the Military is ever ordered to round-up any threats to national security. They’ve been trained to take orders for a long time and the elite who control them and our media will get away with it, because they can. They will take it all and leave nothing for our people. George Carlin said it best when he talks about the “rich cocksuckers” we keep electing and putting into office that don’t “give a fuck about you, they don’t give a fuck about you!”. They want more for themselves and less for everyone else. They’ll get it all, just watch. From the bail out to a nation of willfully ignorant people who live by modest means, hardworking people who got thrown overboard years ago. The table is tilted, the game is rigged. No one seems to notice, no one seems to care. They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

  • Dennis

    James you have a good point..they will do it while we sleep..the new world order is on its way….will be the perfect storm..

    • http://www.ice-news.net Editor-in-Chief

      Vigilance. Without it we are lost. Americans may be forced to form vigilence committees to keep an eye on big government and the Leftists in out midst.

      November cannot come soon enough.