Steven Vincent

• SECRET NDAA CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ISSUES UNANIMOUS REPORT

  This means that the report may be sent back to the House and Senate and there will probably be a vote on Bill of Rights Day!

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  December 12, 2011 T

  SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE COMPLETES CONFERENCE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012

  WASHINGTON — Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, announced today that the committee has completed its conference of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. The bill authorizes funding for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the national security programs of the Department of Energy (DOE).

  “The conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 which was adopted today enables the Congress to pass this Act for the fiftieth consecutive year. Although the conference agreement authorizes $26.6 billion less than the budget request, I am confident that it provides adequate support for the men and women of the armed forces and their families and provides them with the means to accomplish their missions,” Senator Levin said.

  “The conference report approved this evening is vitally important to our nation’s defense, provides for our men and women in uniform, and ensures that our military has the essential resources, training, technology and equipment to succeed in protecting our national security interests around the world,” said Senator McCain. “This legislation is the product of 11 months of hard work and hundreds of hours of hearings and meetings by House and Senate members and staff. I am proud of the bipartisan spirit that has once again characterized this process, and allowed us to address some difficult issues, including terrorist detainees, Iran sanctions, the F-35 program and aid to Pakistan. The fact that all 26 members of the conference committee have signed on to this bill shows that there is bipartisan agreement that this legislation addresses and satisfies the Administration’s concerns related to the detainee provisions that were fully debated in Congress in recent weeks. I deeply appreciate the hard work and dedication of my friend Chairman Levin, whose leadership has been essential to continuing the tradition of deliberate review and oversight that the Defense Authorization Bill has provided our nation’s military for over fifty years without fail.”

  Senator Levin added, “I want to commend my Senate partner Senator McCain for his hard work and cooperation. I am particularly pleased that we have dealt successfully with the difficult issues relating to detainees, Iran sanctions, counterfeit electronic parts, F-35 contracting, and a host of additional matters that are discussed below. The detainee provisions in particular have been written to be doubly sure there is no interference with civilian interrogations and other law enforcement activities and to ensure the President has the flexibility he needs to use the most appropriate tools in each case.”

Steven Vincent

• INDEFINITE DETENTION IS COMING TO TOWN

  You better shut up
  You better not cry
  Better not protest
  I’m telling you why
  Indefinite Detention is coming to town!

  They’re making a list
  They’re checking it twice
  They’re gonna tell you
  If you’re a terrorist or nice
  Indefinite Detention is coming to town!

  They know if you are sleeping
  They know if you’re awake
  They know if you’re a sheep or not
  So be a sheep for your own sake!

  Oh….
  You better shut up
  You better not cry
  Better not protest
  I’m telling you why
  Indefinite Detention is coming to town!
  Indefinite Detention is coming to town!

Steven Vincent

• TOTAL NEWS MEDIA BLACKOUT ON NDAA

  WE MUST STAND TOGETHER AGAINST THIS TYRANNY!

  National:
  http://www.facebook.com/groups/stopndaa
  http://www.facebook.com/events/317336694951337/

  Los Angeles:
  http://www.facebook.com/groups/ndaala/
  http://www.facebook.com/events/202161389869140/

  The mainstream, Establishment media are not covering the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Yesterday, the bill was sent from the secret, closed-door conference committee with a unanimous vote and it will likely be voted upon in the House of Representatives tomorrow, Bill of Rights Day as President Obama today declared that he will not veto the legislation. A bill that a total spectrum of independent sources agree will essentially end the Bill of Rights is going to be passed on Bill of Rights Day should, to any rational human being, rate at least a little public discourse.

  A Google search of all the major media sources—ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Associated Press, National Public Radio—reveals no coverage at all over the last week or more and very little if any coverage over the last month.

  Search “NDAA”: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ndaa&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=ndaa&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=nws&prmd=imvnsu&ei=GzLpTtGEGIqXgwfakNTPCA&start=90&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=8edc01a173c77204&biw=1280&bih=702

  Search “National Defense Authorization Act”:http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ndaa&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=national+defense+authorization+act&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=nws&ei=UDPpTuaxBtLhggfQ1Iz8CA&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=8edc01a173c77204&biw=1280&bih=702

  The first major news media reference to either search term is a Blog posting on New York Times web site going back to November 30th.

  There is no reference to the bill on the front pages of any of the Establishment media web sites today. I searched both of these terms on each of the web sites of the major media.

  Search term “NDAA”:

  The search returns ONE ITEM, a completely uncritical report on the bill dating back to December 4th: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57336424/the-debate-over-captured-terrorism-suspects/

  Search term “National Defense Authorization Act”:

  AP: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/662-billion-defense-bill-15153807 . No critical analysis at all.

  ABC News: Article entitled The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face <http://abcnews.go.com/images/Business/forbes_c753d11dc83c9c6f8ce55819d5b7b914 >http://abcnews.go.com/images/Business/forbes_c753d11dc83c9c6f8ce55819d5b7b914  HAS BEEN PURGED.

  MSNBC: Nothing but a single blog posting from an Arkansas newspaper on December 1st: The Defense Authorization Act: Americans Imprisoned Indefinitely? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45503669#.Tuk4c5hoXcM

  MSNBC via Reuters: totally uncritical piece on December 12:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45484144#.Tuk4fJhoXcM

  Fox News: Amazing! An actual video report!! Latest on Holding Terror Suspects in U.S http://video.foxnews.com/v/1327765167001/latest-on-holding-terror-suspects-in-us . But wait. It’s a piece which basically ADVOCATES not only holding Americans by the military but KILLING them.

  Reuters: You have to go back to October 5th to find anything at all:http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-guantanamo-detainees-idUSTRE7946KW20111005

  NPR: totally uncritical interview with an Obama Administration official on December 9th: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143462913/brennan-discusses-national-defense-authorization-bill

  New York Times: An opinion piece in favor of making the detainee provisions a civilian rather than military function: Hobbling the Fight Against Terrorism <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/opinion/hobbling-the-fight-against-terrorism.html?scp=2&sq=national+defense+authorization+act&st=cse >

  If there were any additional evidence needed to conclude that the Media are entirely controlled and managed by the Corporatist interests that rule this country, I think this provides it.

  Americans and all people everywhere should be OUTRAGED at the audacity, complicity and collaboration of the Congress, White House, Military and Media Establishments in engineering a silent coup d’etat against the US Constitution and the future of Freedom. On Bill of Rights Day (or Boston Tea Party Day on Friday), we should all find a way to vocally object to the death of Liberty.

Steven Vincent

• Statement adopted by Bill of Rights Day People’s Assembly at the West Los Angeles Federal Building:

  We the People, assembled in protest and exercising our First Amendment rights of Free Assembly and Free Speech, condemn the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. The timing of its passage on the 220th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights and its signing into law on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party is tantamount to a declaration of war against the very principles of Freedom and Rule of Law.

  The law contains provisions that mandate that the military hold any person anywhere accused of being a terrorist or aiding terrorists, including Americans on American soil, in indefinite detention until the end of the Global War on Terror and the end of hostilities. Since under the new law the determination that an individual is a terrorist suspect is entirely arbitrary and without recourse to juridical appeal, by definition it therefore attempts to obliterate the fundamental Constitutional protections of Habeas Corpus and Due Process. NDAA institutes a regime in which the Rule of Law is replaced by the arbitrary Rule of Men. In the absence of Rules, by definition, we are left only with Rulers. The Corporatist regime has indicated its willingness to use the usurped power of the State against We the People in order to perpetuate its rule of theft, plunder, crime, ruin and war.

  Our Constitutional Rights are inalienable. We do not recognize the legitimacy of the Indefinite Detention provisions of this Act. Having declared itself outside the Constitution and the Rule of Law, the Corporatist regime is itself illegitimate and any and all actions taken by it going forward are inherently null and void.

  All levels and divisions of the Corporatist Elite have participated in this crime. In particular, we condemn the total information blackout perpetrated by the mainstream, big news media that saw fit to deny the American people a broad debate over this Act and its implications.

  In addition, the bill provides for severe sanctions against the petroleum industry and financial system of Iran, which we can only surmise are precursors to war. We regard the Indefinite Detention provisions of NDAA as a preparation for the strong opposition that will inevitably arise from the American people to such a war.

  We the People will not be cowed into submission. We will stand tall and strong for the repeal of this heinous Act, the total reversal of all police state measures, the revocation of the Rule of Men and the restoration of the Rule of Law. Congress, the President and all military and government officials connected with the drafting and passage of this Act, having blatantly violated their oaths of office to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution”, should resign immediately. We the People will work tirelessly to find and exercise all peaceful, legal means and measures to redress this grievance and hold those responsible to account.

  We the People of Los Angeles
  Assembled at the West Los Angeles Federal Building
  December 15, 2011

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