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> Valid reason to arrest him. Not a valid reason to sit in prison for 14 months, with no due process, trial, etc. I remember when the NDAA passed for the first
by mtgx 11y ago
> Valid reason to arrest him. Not a valid reason to sit in prison for 14 months, with no due process, trial, etc.
I remember when the NDAA passed for the first time in the budget bill, Obama said it would not actually be used to keep people indefinitely in prison with no trial. In reality, the government has already been doing that to people, even before the NDAA passed, and now the NDAA just represents legal cover.
Kind of how they repealed the law that said the US government can't use propaganda on US soil, and now they can also do that in one way or another (either through the MSM or through Internet psyops).
- tptacek 11y agoNo portion of the detainee provisions of the NDAA were at play in this case: * Lopez wasn't part of al Qaeda or involved in the 9/11 attacks. * Lopez wasn't apprehended by the US military. * Lopez wasn't detained "under the laws of war". * Lopez wasn't held in military custody.