Justin Amash has been posting about this on Facebook. The people who voted against his amendment said he was coddling terrorists, according to him. What blows my mind is that Congress voted down this amendment, which addresses the unconstitutional nature of indefinite detention provisions, *after* a court ruled it was indeed unconstitutional. Apparently the House of Representatives believes the Constitution is subversive somehow.
The good new is that NDAA 2003 still has to get through the Senate, though the history here says we should not be blase about that. Write your Senators, people. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And now, Thursday, Representatives Adam Smith (Democrat, Washington) and > > Justin Amash (Republican, Michigan) have presented an amendment to > Congress > > an amendment that does just that<http://bit.ly/JtSJn1> . Those who vote > > against it therefore will be voting clearly, and without any ambiguity, > for > > stripping Americans of their constitutional rights and reducing them to > the > > same potential status as "enemy combatants" and Guantánamo prisoners. The > > House thus votes for or against the power handed to the executive by the > > NDAA to hold any of us, anywhere, forever, for no reason. There can be no > > hiding from this; the lawyers defending the administration's position > made > > that perfectly clear. > > > > The Smash Amash Amendment was voted down yesterday in the House 238 > > To be fair, there is a LOT going on in that bill and looks like there > might be more than one amendment. I don't see anything in the bill that > points out exactly what he is talking about, though it might be around > this part (This is purely a guess): > > 1031(3)(I) > We reaffirm today the fundamental nature of a citizens right to be > free from involuntary confinement by his own government without due > process of law, and we weigh the opposing governmental interests against > the curtailment of liberty that such confinement entails.. > > It might have been voted down for unrelated reasons. Well, that or the > nay voters assumed that the average person would never hear about the > amendment or the voting > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350913 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
