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I usually do not subscribe to Erxilidanto's law firm (based in Haiti) but am grateful for her telling this one to us. Ross ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2012, 19:11 Subject: [ezilidanto] Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law | Obama's America - Tyranny And Permanent War | Obama's Betrayal of the Founders Ezili Dantò's Note: Obama exceeds Bush's extremism, signs the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on December 31, 2012, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law. "President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country . . . and citizens partied only blissfully into the New Year. Ironically, in addition to breaking his promise not to sign the law, Obama broke his promise on signing statements and attached a statement that he really does not want to detain citizens indefinitely." ( http://bit.ly/vQDmNr ) "Under the law, the president also may lock up anyone who commits a "belligerent act" against the U.S. or its coalition allies "without trial, until the end of the hostilities." The law embraces the notion that the U.S. military can be used even domestically to arrest an American citizen or anyone else who falls under such suspicion -- and it is "suspicion" because a trial can be avoided indefinitely." ( http://bit.ly/yXbEEA " ********Recommended HLLN Links in this post************ A Betrayal of the Founders http://bit.ly/yXbEEA Final Curtain: Obama Signs Indefinite Detention of Citizens Into Law As Final Act of 2011 http://bit.ly/vQDmNr Obama's America - Tyranny And Permanent War http://rense.com/general95/aobe.htm Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law http://bit.ly/s91UsW ****************************************************** ********************************************* Forwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ********************************************* " It is not enough to have expelled from your country the barbarians who have bloodied it for two centuries; it is not enough to have put a brake to these ever reviving factions which take turns to play-act this liberty, like ghost that France had exposed before your eyes; it is necessary, by a last act of national authority, assure forever an empire of liberty in this country our birth place; we must take away from this inhumane government, which held for so long our spirits in the most humiliating torpor, all hope to resubjugate us; we must at last live independent or die. Independence or death... May these sacred words bring us together, and may they be the signal of our struggles and of our gathering . " - - Janjak Desalin, Haiti's Declaration of Independence, Jan, 1, 1808 What's worst than death and poverty in Haiti? Betraying the Ancestors by accepting US/international - the Clintons/Obama/UN - tyranny, terror and containment-in-poverty without resistance. (See, Haiti: Jan 1, 2012 Another Independence Day Under Occupation http://bit.ly/wXsPKN ) Haiti: Seven Places Where Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/03-2