Sunday, November 27, 2011

Urge the Senate to Oppose Indefinite Military Detention


FASCISM IS COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU.
The U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention laws to imprison people — including Americans living in the United States itself — indefinitely and without charge.
The Defense Authorization bill — a "must-pass" piece of legislation — is headed to the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all future presidents — the authority to indefinitely imprison people, without charge or trial, both abroad and inside the United States.