19. NDAA

"On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed a law known as the National Defense Authorization Act for the 2012 fiscal year, or the H.R. 1540. Congress passes this act every year to monitor the budget for the Department of Defense. However, this year the NDAA bill has passed with new provisions that should have the entire country up with pitchforks. Normally, this is just an act which details the monetary calls of the Department of Defense which is passed every year. However, the act passed for the 2012 fiscal year changes the bill and can be seen as an extension of the Patriot Act. Now, the indefinite detention has been extended to U.S. citizens as well. If people are spied on and suspected of being terrorists, they may be detained indefinitely without trial."

 The fifth, sixth, and seventh amendments all have at least a little something that could be used the deem the new NDAA unconstitutional. Part of the Fifth Amendment says that "No person ... , nor deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. People arrested under NDAA would be deprived of life and liberty, without due process of law. The Sixth gives the accused the right to a speedy and public trial. The indefinite detention that people would be held under is without trial, violating their Sixth Amendment right. The Seventh is similar to the Sixth as it gives right to a trial by peers. A NDAA arrest would not have any kind of trial.

Just as I was getting used to there being no primaries or caucuses, of course there is another one. Mitt Romney has won yet another caucus. At this point, he has a whopping 127 delegate lead over second place, Rick Santorum. Something I find slightly surprising is that Ron Paul actually has more delegates than Newt Gingrich. True, it is only one more, but still.


Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alton-lu/the-national-defense-auth_b_1180869.html