Be advised political partisans: The National Defense Authorization Act supports military policing of civilians, warrantless and indeterminate detention, extreme rendition, torture and assassination. It will be administered by your Democrat President and his largely Republican staff, as authorized by a Democrat majority Senate (93 to 7 in favor) and a Republican majority House.
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Both of my Florida's Republican Senator Rubio and Florida's Democrat Senator Nelson voted in favor of the NDAA.
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You need to know that any law authorized will in fact be enforced when such is propitious to its sponsors and their government apparatchiks. Any other rationale is contrived political deflection for partisan advantage, ambitions of greed, or ego gratification.
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This law -- currently being contested in the courts -- is now the law of the land and every citizen and his family will be afflicted at the will, self-interest or ego of our government masters. It is difficult to recall any history since the dawn of civilization, when an in-place "legal" instrument of intimidation has not been ultimately put to treacherous use. To deny this is to join in the funeral march for America.
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What to do? This is certain: We must grasp the reality that America is threatened by both the Republican and Democrat establishments. Then we need to take off our Republican shirts and Democrat pants, open our minds, summon our intelligence, and to muster the urgency to discard those partisan trappings and to seek actually decent governance for the American people, and in fact for the sake of humanity. Your recommendations of specific remedies are invited and much needed.
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...Sincerely, Rafe Pilgrim
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Authors Bio:Leaving behind a treacherous government now addicted to perpetual war, its limitlessly greedy and power-lusting masters, as well as the retarded albeit smirky Republicans and their evermore clonish Democrat colleagues, a braindead electorate incapable of recognizing its own best interests, the hypocritical Christians who '"support our troops," and the tiresome, sloganeering and feckless activist-hobbyists, as well as those who profit from their plastic morality -- I now repair to my Jungle Home amidst the giant palmettos on a dirt road running east from the Gulf coast that neither the US Mail nor school buses dare assay, and there to gain the more decent and trustworthy company of the indigenous sand tortoises and rattlesnakes.