WATCH-KNOW-SHARE-ACT: Ex-Marine unlawfully arrested & detained at Occupy LA. Before release, police & military threatened him & his family.

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Account of november 25 ola – YouTube.

YOU MUST WATCH & SHARE. EVEN IF YOU DON’T CONSIDER YOURSELF “POLITICAL”. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A CITIZEN PROTECTED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION?

This isn’t some conspiracy theory. It’s REAL and it’s NOW. There’s no “might happen” if the current bill okaying these types of actions becomes law. It IS happening. The U.N. is even finally getting involved, to ask the US government about the human/civil rights abuses in response to Occupy. Yeah, I’m not crazy. This sh*t makes me and others feel crazy, though. I mean, who really thought this could happen here? >>>

This ex-Marine was unlawfully arrested (cuffed first, then falsely accused of jaywalking) at Occupy LA on November 25th. Before releasing him the police (one officer was a marine — huh?!?) threatened him with life imprisonment and with harm to his family.

“They advised me to leave and if I didn’t I would never see the light of day again.

One of the officers was a Marine. He told me that they would allow me to go free as long as i would never return. And they said if I do return, something will happen to my family.

The officer showed me a picture of my son, which I’ve never seen before. It’s not one that I know of, anybody that I know took it.

And at that point I was really scared; I wasn’t sure what to do; I just complied with everything they said. I told them that I was gonna leave right away — they wouldn’t see me again. Whatever I can say to basically let me go so I can find out to see if my family’s okay.”

He continues, then gives his name and DOB in case something happens to him, because our government is capable of making people disappear: Michael Lazlee (sp?). DOB 11-16-85. (I have kids this age. I have grand kids. Could this happen to them, to me, to you and yours? Yes, it can.)

Continual coverage at Occupation TV: http://occupationtv.tumblr.com/

Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto. (Plus my opinion.)

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Read the Huff Post article: Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto.

First let me just say that Lindsey Graham is a raging lunatic:

“The enemy is all over the world. Here at home. And when people take up arms against the United States and [are] captured within the United States, why should we not be able to use our military and intelligence community to question that person as to what they know about enemy activity?” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.

“They should not be read their Miranda Rights. They should not be given a lawyer,” Graham said. “They should be held humanely in military custody and interrogated about why they joined al Qaeda and what they were going to do to all of us.”

Okay, now…

THANK GOODNESS & SANITY:

A White House official said the administration stands by the veto threat. “We take this very, very seriously,” the official said.

But I would also add to this uproar over detaining American citizens:

We should not limit due process to US citizens. Everyone should be able to face their accusers and the evidence against them. We can’t choose which humans are allowed human rights and decide unilaterally not to abide by the Geneva Conventions.

Most Americans – including me until very recently – aren’t aware that most of the Guantánamo prisoners – some of whom are still being held without hope for ever receiving a trial (let alone a fair one) and seeing their families again – were innocents captured by the opportunistic warlords of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, who were paid a bounty of up to $5000 per head by the US. The warlords packed them like sardines in unbearably hot, metal shipping containers. Some of those who were lucky enough to survive this were then taken, blindfolded and shackled onto US military transport planes, where they were shackled belly-down and had to lay in their own urine and feces. All this before the actual torture by US military personnel at Guantánamo began – both physical and mental.

Is your heart breaking yet at our savagery? Yes, mine too — shattered. We Americans can claim no moral high ground while this continues.

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window

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They’ve forgotten that little slip of paper known as the U.S. Constitution.

While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.

Senators need to hear from you, on whether you think your front yard is part of a “battlefield” and if any president can send the military anywhere in the world to imprison civilians without charge or trial.

If enacted, sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA would:

1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;

(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and

(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.

Read more, act and share: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union.

ACLU: Urge your Senators to oppose sections 1031 and 1032 of the Defense Authorization bill. http://bit.ly/t75mu7

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EMERGENCY: This happens Monday or Tuesday, everyone! Your Senators and the President need to hear from you NOW about this assault on our Constitutionally protected rights – on our democracy. Please, no matter where you stand on other issues, you MUST ACT NOW. Spread the word. Keep America free.