Obama signing NDAA disappointment and determination to overturn by civil and human rights defenders, including new Justice Party's Presidential Candidate Rocky Anderson
Against the voice of the American public, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA FY 212) Saturday, December 31, 2011, making indefinite detention codified into law, as Presidential Candidate of the new Justice Party, Rocky Anderson ramps his campaign, highlighting that both traditional American parties' congresspersons supported the NDAA FY212 that violates many of the thirty Articles of the Declaration of Human Rights, and that polls show Americans want and are now ready for a third party.
"President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law," announced ACLU in its written statement the last day of 2011 about the "dangerous" act.
The ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA FY2012.
The president said in a statement Saturday, "I want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation."
Rights defenders, however, concur with statements in the new Russia human rights report that details a U.S. human rights disconnect, including President Obama's words not matching his actions. Over fifty human rights organizations have called on the president for human rights reform, almost a wasted energy.
(See: "Obama strips Americans' rights in NDAA bill, proclaims human rights week")
"The (Russian) report criticizes the U.S. for having a faulty democratic system of elections that increasingly lacks representation from third party candidates" and money buying votes.
PresidentRocky energizes U.S. human rights prospects, says NDAA intolerable
First thing on January 1, around 6:45 a.m. AT, Rocky Anderson, head of High Road for Human Rights, under his Twitter name, "PresidentRocky," Tweeted, "What's now clear from #NDAA is that authoritarianism is bipartisan, a position a free society must regard intolerable. Answer? Justice Party".
Anderson's High Roads for Human Rights works to abolish the death penalty, torture, other prison abuse, racism and a host of other United States human rights violations that he calls "outrageous."
An hour earlier on Sunday, urging Americans to continue uniting, Anderson, the former mayor of Salt Lake City, Tweeted, "Media has been virtually without coverage of the formation of Justice Party & our campaign".
Thom Hartman interviewed Anderson on December 15, as Russia Today reported.
(Watch Thom Hartmann's interview of U.S. Presidential Candidate, Justice Party, Rocky Anderson on this page, left, courtesy of The Big Picture, Russia Today.)
Anderson's call for unity through the Justice Party to overturn the present regime that violates human rights is in motion, same as globally, highlighted by the special Russia Today report Saturday, showing uprisings for rights amid induced fear and terror forced by present regimes.
ACLU stated after the president signed the bill into law that nobody, in the United States or elsewhere, should have to live in fear of the government renditioning them, as the act codifies:
"We are extremely disappointed that President Obama signed this bill even though his administration is already claiming overly-broad detention authority in court. Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back those claims dimmed today. Thankfully we have three branches of government, and the final word on the scope of detention authority belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.
According to Anderson, statutes passed by Congress are happening because of the corrupting influences and the military-industrial-complex has a stranglehold on American.
Almost one year ago, Dupré reported on Anderson's human rights defending including his opposition to the nation having been lied into war:
"Anderson has proven his ability as a change agent through his intelligence, wisdom and compassion. He attracted praise and scorn in August 2005 when, after accepting an invitation from the Veterans of Foreign Wars to participate in a visit by President Bush, he sent an e-mail to local advocacy leaders calling for "the biggest demonstration [Utah] has ever seen" to protest Bush's appearance at Veterans of Foreign Wars' National Convention at the Salt Palace.
"Speaking to a gathering at a rally at Pioneer Park in downtown Salt Lake City, Anderson justified his protest against Bush, asserting that the "nation was lied into a war."
According to Anderson, since then and even more so since the NDAA FY2012 scandal, people from each political party and an array of major organizations are supporting a third party, the Justice Party and him.
"We have the democratization now like never before," says Anderson, referring to social networks and the Occupy movement.
"There's never been the economic disparity we have today. People are feeling it.
"People are watching Facebook and Twitter to learn what's happening," he told Thom Hartmann.
"This party is about changing the system, getting the corrupting money out of it so we can change policy."
Anderson asserted, "We cannot let the fear of spoiling the race of the lesser of two evils to bring about the major transformation our country and we need."
The human rights defender opposing NDAA FY 2012, Anderson can be seen speaking about his candidacy in nine television interviews here.
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