Monday 2 January 2012

Does the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year of 2012 REALLY gives the military powers to detain you indefinately.....FOREVER?!?!?!

There are rumors flying around about the controversial bill called the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal 2012 about one section (Specifically section 1021 and 1022) of the bill allowing the military to detain American citizens without trial for as long as they want. There are already laws in the UK that allows the government to detain terrorist suspects for 28 days (Previously 3 months).

The bill has many pages and is indeed an extremely long read containing many sections and subtitles.

I've been pondering for the semantics of Sections 1021 and 1022 and this is what I found

"SEC. 1021. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR PLACING MARITIME PREPOSITIONING SHIP SQUADRONS ON REDUCED OPERATING STATUS.
    No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended to place a Maritime Prepositioning Ship squadron, or any component thereof, on reduced operating status until the later of the following:
      (1) The date on which the Commandant of the Marine Corps submits to the congressional defense committees a report setting forth an assessment of the impact on military readiness of the plans of the Navy for placing such Maritime Prepositioning Ship squadron, or component thereof, on reduced operating status.
      (2) The date on which the Chief of Naval Operations submits to the congressional defense committees a report that--
        (A) describes the plans of the Navy for placing such Maritime Prepositioning Ship squadron, or component thereof, on reduced operating status; and
        (B) sets forth comments of the Chief of Naval Operations on the assessment described in paragraph (1).
      (3) The date on which the Secretary of Defense certifies to the congressional defense committees that the risks to readiness of placing such Maritime Prepositioning squadron, or component thereof, on reduced operating status are acceptable."
And:-

"SEC. 1022. MODIFICATION OF CONDITIONS ON STATUS OF RETIRED AIRCRAFT CARRIER EX-JOHN F. KENNEDY.
    Section 1011(c)(2) of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2374) is amended by striking `shall require' and all that follows and inserting `may, notwithstanding paragraph (1), demilitarize the vessel in preparation for the transfer.'."


There is no evidence in these sections that suggests that the military has the power to detain US citizens as suspected terrorist suspects. Either someone has jumped the gun and didn't liked what they saw or obviously, someone is lying......

These quotes were taken from this website where they have published the bill:- http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php

If there is indeed another website out there that publishes the bill where they have the sections where it says that the US military has the power to indefinately detain American citizens as terrorist suspects, then please point it out to me....

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