What were they thinking? When President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) making military detention and military trials the law of the land, he must have figured no one was paying attention.
But we were. Now, at least six jurisdictions have enacted local resolutions seeking to nullify the NDAA . From coast-to-coast, opposition is building with a Virginia bill passing the House of Delegates 96-4 last week.
Concerns about NDAA detention provisions transcend political party, ideology, and geography, and representatives in these diverse jurisdictions have stood up to resist an ongoing bipartisan assault on constitutional rights by federal officials. While a debate about the scope of the NDAA’s potential abuses continues to distract congressional policymakers, who voted without realizing the law’s terrifying implications, their counterparts in state and local governments are proving more conscientious, proactively acting on their oaths of office to defend the Constitution.
And Occupy Spring!
Starting in Eugene this Saturday: occupyeugenemedia.org
- KBOO