No matter what side of the political spectrum one may fall on, I personally feel that this story should be the number one issue in the United States. The War on Terror has been the excuse for U.S. congress to pass all kinds of bills which violate American’s basic human rights. For example everyone is aware of the Patriot Act with it’s warrantless wiretapping provision. Now the U.S Congress and Senate have taken things ten steps further with the National Defense Authorization Act. This bill, which was passed in both houses of Congress, has a provision that allows American citizens to be detained in prison indefinitely without a trial.

Common sense would dictate that this is a power that no government should have (much less one one’s whose leaders in congress have the lowest approval ratings in the history of the country.) However, we live in a panic atmosphere were people are ready to sacrifice freedom for security, and what passes for news is no more informative than an episode of TMZ (No offense to the people at TMZ.) One youtube search for the term NDAA and the first page that pops up are all alternative media sources (kudos to these fine individuals by the way).

Where are CNN and Fox News? Shouldn’t this bill be the number one story in the country right now? Is the rounding up of U.S. citizens without due process (a.k.a. kidnapping) such a low priority in the news cycle? Maybe the mainstream media feels that since it received a majority bi-partisan vote in the affirmative, every American is essentially satisfied and this is a non issue. Unfortunately, it will be a dead issue unless the American people bring this issue out of the darkness and into the light.

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