ACTION ALERT: NDAA Vote This Week — Tell Senate to End Indefinite Detention

by Alcyone
Conscious Life News
November 28, 2012

[URGENT UPDATE FROM POTENT NEWS EDITOR: I would like to apologize to the readers. It appears I hadn’t looked closely enough at what exactly this petition was for. How embarrassing… I considered deleting this post, but that wouldn’t be very honest now would it? Anyway, the point is that upon closer examination it turns out this petition is proposing the Due Process Guarentee Act of 2011 and fortunately P.A.N.D.A. has recently found out that this particular mitigation tactic is just smoke and mirrors. Please disregard everything you read below and refrain from hastily sharing the petition like I foolishly did… OR at the very least, read this explanation of why the Due Process Guarentee Act of 2011 sucks (or this explanation) so you know what you are involving yourself with.]

By Demand Progress

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act allows the United States military to detain civilians indefinitely and without charge or trial — even American citizens. Help us reverse this travesty of justice by adding your name at the link below.

Next, please use the new social media tools we’ve built to help us win this fight:

Please click here to use our fun “detain-a-friend” tool to spread word using Facebook.

And use our Twitter tool to tweet directly at your senators.

The Senate is taking up the 2013 NDAA this week. Several senators are poised to put forth amendments to revoke or narrow the indefinite detention powers that we’ve been fighting so hard over the last year.

Demand Progress members have sent hundreds of thousands of emails to Congress and have helped fund the courageous lawsuit by Chris Hedges et al — which recently spurred a federal judge to rule that indefinite detention is unconstitutional.

Because there are several amendments in play, our ask is broad and simple: Please urge your Senators to support any and all amendments to revoke or narrow indefinite detention powers.

Earlier this year we helped push an anti-indefinite detention amendment to the House’s version of the NDAA to the brink of passage. The Senate is friendly turf for us: We have a real chance of winning this fight.

Please email the Senate in front of its critical vote — it could happen this week.

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