Alert: Sen. to defy TI human rights: Americans secretly jailed, No trial charge

'Red Alert': S. 1867 National Defense Authorization Bill: Ultra threat to Targeted Individuals' human rights

The Senate will secretly vote Monday or Tuesday on a bill giving President Barack Obama and every future U.S. president power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial innocent Targeted Individuals, Americans and civilians anywhere in the world. In violation of human rights and pro-democracy workers defending human rights, this bill was drafted in secret behind closed doors, without a single hearing, and represents what the president clearly stated as his aim early in his term.

"Once signed into law the President, or anyone of his minions within the Justice Department or Homeland Security acting on his behalf, can issue orders to arrest, detain and imprison an American citizen in the United States without due process," states LiveLeak.

Los Angeles human rights defender, Human Rights Alert director Dr. Joeseph Zernik stated Monday about the pending passage of this bill, "It’s the next logical step in expanding the already enormous gulag" in the United States.

"Since most terror arrests fall into the realm of national security, and therefore are secret, no evidence would ever need to be presented for the permanent detainment (and who knows what else) of an American imprisoned under this law." (http://www.sott.net/articles/show/238134-US-Senate-To-Vote-On-Legislation-Tha...)

Innocent Targeted Individuals on one of the watch lists are more at risk now then ever with this pending further persecution.

Truthout reports Monday, "The most glaring problem with the committee’s legislation is its violation of our nation’s most fundamental values shared across our political spectrum."

The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, on the Senate floor Monday.

The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing," according to LiveLeak Monday.

Brasscheck TV reports Monday in what it calls a "kind of red alert," "Way back in 2009, President Obama gave a speech in which he called for the power to detain individuals indefinitely and without charges. He stated his intention to create a new 'legal regime' to make indefinite detention legal.

"Of course, in his speech he cites Al Qaeda and foriegn terrorists. However, now that the Senate is about to vote TODAY on a bill that would give the President the powers he was asking for, the ACLU and others are claiming that the bill CAN and WILL be used on American citizens here at home."

(Watch embedded Youtube on this page about this bill)

Author of War is a Lie, David Swanson has endorsed the Roots In Action notice by forwarding it to human rights defenders.

Roots in Action states in its written statement, "Today and tomorrow, the U.S. Senate is likely to consider a Defense Authorization Act that wastes $682.5 billion on war preparations and on wars including Afghanistan, where we killed six more children on Thanksgiving.

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The same bill adds dangerous new provisions that authorize presidents to launch numerous wars without  Congressional declaration and to indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens without charge.

Americans urged by human rights defenders to take immediate action

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Tell your senators to reform or defeat this bill.

Senator Mark Udall of Colorado will introduce an amendment stripping out the expanded war and imprisonment powers," says Roots In Action.

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Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon has introduced an amendment that would ask President Obama to stop waging war in Afghanistan more quickly than December 2014.



"Tell your senators to support these two amendments.
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Americans are also being urged by human rights defenders to:

 Fax your Senators: