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US Mainstream Media Cover Up - Russian Troops To Target Terrorists in America As Part of Drill

Russian Troops To Target Terrorists in America As Part of Drill

• Joint U.S.-Russian anti-terror exercise stokes fears of martial law

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Russian airborne troops are set to train how to target terrorists in America as part of a joint anti-terror drill with the United States which will take place in Fort Carson, Colorado at the end of next month.

“Airborne troops from Russia and the United States would hold joint anti-terror drills in the U.S. state of Colorado between May 24 and 31,”reports the Xinhua news agency, citing Russian Defense Ministry Col. Alexander Kucherenko. The story was also reported by Russian news outletRIA Novosti.

The exercises, which will mark the first time the respective country’s two airborne forces have held joint drills on U.S. territory, will revolve around the the “reconnaissance of imaginary terrorists’ camp and a raid,” and will also involve evacuations of the troops by helicopter.

The Russian soldiers will also be given access to U.S. special service weapons at Fort Carson.

However, the Russian troops won’t just be confined to a U.S. military base – on May 27 they’ll be out in the local community attending a baseball game in Colorado Springs.

“This announcement comes at a time when Russia actually has troops working in cooperation with China,” points out Business Insider’s Eloise Lee, making reference to one of the largest ever Russian-Sino naval drills currently underway in the Yellow Sea.

Alex Jones has documented foreign troops being trained on U.S. soil to deal with “insurgents” since the late 1990′s as part of “urban warfare drills”.

Back in July 2010, our reporters covered the Operation Vigilant Guard exercises in Chicagowhich involved Polish troops training alongside U.S. National Guard troops in drills focused around raiding terrorists and drug dealers.

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According to SFC Mark Ballard of the Illinois National Guard, the Polish forces were “integrating into some of the civil military units that are participating in this exercise” as part of Illinois’ partnership with the Republic of Poland, a relationship based around “integrative training” and blending military and civilian forces in the event of a national emergency, as well as making this process of integration with foreign troops more “visible”.

The exercises also involved volunteers from Boy Scouts of America, which was telling in light of a 2009 New York Times report which detailed how Homeland Security is training boy scouts to take on and disarm “disgruntled veterans” who are described as “terrorists”.

Fears that foreign troops would be used to carry out gun confiscations and incarcerate American citizens during a time of martial law have circulated for decades, concerns stoked by remarks such as the following quote from Henry Kissinger reportedly made at the 1991 Bilderberg conference in Evian, France.

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful,” Kissinger stated.

The idea of foreign soldiers taking over America has often cropped up in television series and movies, most notably in the 1984 film Red Dawn, which depicted the United States being invaded by Soviet troops.

It is important to add that a story circulating which attempts to piggy-back off these confirmed drills in claiming that the U.S. has given Russian troops permission to “take and hold Denver airport” comes from a notorious disinformation source which routinely puts out bogus articles and as such should be completely disregarded as a hoax. Unfortunately, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and others have bought the scam, which takes away from the importance of the drills which are fully confirmed.

Watch our report about Polish troops training to target terrorists on U.S. soil in the video below.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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Homeland Security Unveils Monstrous SWAT Trucks and They Are For What...?

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Homeland Security Unveils Monstrous SWAT Trucks and They Are For What...?

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April 14, 2012

The vehicles are right out of Team America: World Police.

Via: HongPong:

A relatively monstrous SWAT style truck leads us to a whole new blob of police state developments, busy hands with little to do and a lot of hardware to do it.

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Dogs Skinned Alive to make fake Ugg boots in China: Horrific footage reveals slow, sickening deaths of raccoon dogs

Skinned alive to make fake Ugg boots: Horrific footage reveals slow, sickening deaths of raccoon dogs

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  Skinned alive to make fake Ugg boots: Horrific footage reveals slow, sickening deaths of raccoon dogs

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  Thousands of unsuspecting Britons may be buying imitation Ugg boots made from the pelts of animals skinned alive.

  The fur comes from raccoon dogs, a species related to domestic dogs, farmed in China.

  A sickening video of the skins being collected has led activists to demand a ban on the trade and call for clearer labelling.

  Brutal: Workers in China skin a raccoon dog, but the animal is still alive and suffering

  

  The raccoon dog is indigenous to Asia and related to dogs and foxes. Ugg boots, right, are made from Australian sheepskin and cost up to £200 - but cheap imitations have flooded the market

  Genuine Ugg boots cost up to £200 and use sheepskin, which is produced in a humane way.

  But campaigners have found that other companies in Australia, where the popular boots are made, are using raccoon dog fur farmed in China and labelling it ‘Australian sheepskin’.

   
  Raccoon Dogs are Skinned "ALIVE" to make Fake Uggs

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  Campaigners from Humane Society International (HSI) warned that the footwear could have found its way into the UK.

  While the law says that no products using dog or cat fur may be imported or sold in the country, there is no ban on fur from raccoon dogs, an Asian species with links to foxes, dogs and jackals. They are not related to raccoons.

  Pitiful: A bloodied and dazed creature is shown still alive but helpless on a pile of corpses

   

  Agony: A raccoon dog is beaten to stop it struggling so it can be skinned alive

   

  Wendy Higgins from HSI UK said: ‘I have been working in animal rights for more than a decade and have never seen a video that has shocked me so much.

  ‘It is not just the killing of the animals that is horrific, but the fact that they must endure such slow, painful deaths.

  ‘These animals are not dogs,  so there is no legislative reason why boots containing the fur cannot be imported into the UK. There are also many problems with the labelling of fur products, so many consumers will not be aware of where the fur in their boots comes from.’

  Websites found by HSI show other companies are selling the fur on gilets, coats and ear-muffs for delivery to the UK.

  Ugg Australia denied they were using the fur in their own boots and pointed the finger at cheap copies.

  Cruelty: A raccoon dog is beaten on the head in an attempt to stun it. Another dazed animal lies on the right-hand of the image

   

  Force: A worker stands on an animal's neck to stop it struggling. The process of skinning the raccoon dogs is agonisingly slow

  Lena McDonald from Ugg Australia said the use of raccoon dog fur by other companies was tarnishing the entire industry as many people were unable to tell the different brands apart.

  She said her company used its own tannery to ensure the standards of its boots, but added that up to 40 products using fur from overseas contained the word ‘ugg’.

  She said: ‘As far as I can see many of these boots are not made in Australia at all yet they have the words Australia and ugg on them. We have seen companies cutting off tags saying “made in China” and putting on a “made in Australia” tag.’

  The UK Government announced its ban on importing cat and dog pelts from China in 2001 after it emerged that a fur collar, obtained from a leading store in the West End, contained dog fur.

  A total ban on the trade in dog and cat fur came into force across Europe in December 2008.

   

  HSI is looking into what action can ben taken and is urging readers to write to the Chinese Ambassador to lodge their disgust and horror at the cruelty endured by animals in the Chinese fur industry, particularly raccoon dogs, and to ask for the suffering to stop:

   

  His Excellency Ambassador Liu Xiaoming

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The screams of live dogs, and innocent animals as they were skinned alive in China

Posted: 2011-11-11 23:10:24 UTC-06:00

The screams of live dogs, and innocent animals as they were skinned alive in China

 

I CAN STILL HEAR THEIR SCREAMS - DOGS, CATS and ANIMALS 

 

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The men grabbed each cage off this huge truck and threw them to the ground - as high up as 30'. The cries of these adorable dogs and cats as they hit the ground sent me into shock. Several dogs and cats crammed into each cage, many already bloodied and many whose bones would break upon impact. I can still hear their screams.

As I watched the video progress, I realized that I was crying. The screams of live dogs and cats as they were skinned alive, their big eyes begging for mercy and receiving none, ripped my heart out and brought incredible rage from deep down inside. The next shots of cat pelts laid on the floor with all the dead bodies still twitching in piles cast aside like garbage, would have driven someone with a weak stomach right to the bathroom. It hardened my resolve against trading with barbarians. I can still hear their screams.

More pictures of dogs being chained - the worker jerking and tightening the chain while the eyes of incredible pain stared at the camera - prepared them for skinning, alive. I don't know what sound you call dogs and cats as they are being choked and then a knife taken to them right then and there and skinned. To me, it was screams so horrific, I can still hear them two days after I watched the video.

This is an everyday operation by "businessmen" who drive their trucks on the street like a produce truck would in the U.S. It's estimated these barbarians skin millions of dogs and cats every year - while they are alive. As I watched these "workers" go about their barbaric practice, I wondered how Americans could continue supporting them with their consumer dollar? This is Communist China in all its brutality. The skinning of live dogs and cats is done for money. These barbarians sell the pelts and toss the "meat." These pelts are illegally being intertwined with fake fur for many retail items being sold in the U.S., i.e. doll clothes and into fabric for human garments, i.e. parka hoods and sweaters. That's right: That Christmas gift sitting under the tree - if it came from Communist China - most likely is made from the fur of a dog or cat skinned alive. The EU refuses to ban this barbaric practice; it is condemned and illegal in the U.S.

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Citizens of America, DO NOT Be Afraid

Do not be afraid

3 December 2011 (NationalDogPress.us)

In October 1979, one year after he became Pope, John Paul II visited Battery Park and gave a speech about freedom. My mother stood in the rain for hours with thousands of New Yorkers to see the Polish Pontiff. When he finally arrived, hundreds of immigrants began chanting in Polish, "Long live the Pope." Swallowed by the multitude, my mother cried out, "Long live Poland!"

When he heard her, Pope John Paul stopped in his tracks and made his way through the crowd. He took my mother by the hand, looked into her eyes and said, "Long live Poland."

At that point, despite its democratic history, Poland was still stuck behind the Iron Curtain. This was a moment when two people who had suffered through the destruction and occupation of their homeland, first by the Nazis and then by the Soviet Union's communist regime, expressed hope that someday Poland would again be free.

With the Statue of Liberty as his backdrop, the Pope said in his speech: "On this spot, I wish to pay homage to this noble trait of America and its people: its desire to be free, its determination to preserve freedom, and its willingness to share this freedom, to remain a moving force for your nation and for all the nations in the world today!"

A few months before his visit to New York, the Pope, born Karol Wojtyla (pronounced Voy-ti-wah), visited his native country and told the Poles, "Do not be afraid." The message was a call to action.

The following year, Poles rose up against the atheist regime and created the Solidarity trade union to challenge the totalitarian system imposed on them. Eventually, the Kremlin told its puppet regime in Warsaw that unless they crushed Solidarity, Soviet troops would. When John Paul II learned of this threat, he sent then-Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev a letter that said if the Russians moved against Poland, he would "lay down the crown of St. Peter and return to his homeland to stand shoulder to shoulder with his people." To avoid a bloodbath at the hands of Soviet troops, Polish generals cracked down on the union. Union leaders were thrown in jail and Solidarity was outlawed.

In 1981, in a desperate attempt to stop this Polish Revolution, the Russian KGB ordered the assassination of the Polish Pope. John Paul II survived the shooting and became more determined to speak up for freedom.

Karol Wojtyla and Solidarity inspired me so much, that after graduating from journalism school in 1985, I went to Poland to delve into my Polish roots. There I saw what my mother and the Pope had known for years: Communism was a cruel joke being played on mankind, and it had to be abolished. The only things communism created in abundance were poverty and indignity. Store shelves were nearly empty. Ration cards were required to buy meat or sugar. Toilet paper was nonexistent. The currency was worthless. The press was censored. The communist bureaucracy was so paranoid that people had to fill out forms just to make a Xerox copy. Yet there was one injustice that the overpowered Poles would not stand for ^× they would not succumb to the Soviet system's atheism.

Christianity has been dominant in Poland for a thousand years. Poles would die before giving up their religion. The Catholic Church was Poland's second government, and mass was still the one place Poles could pray for freedom.

As he imposed communism on Eastern Europe, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin talked about forcing atheism on people who were willing to die for their religion. He said, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" Eventually, the Poles proved that it does not take tank divisions to overthrow tyranny. It takes solidarity.

I interviewed the Solidarity leaders inspired by the Pope. They told me that their belief in God helped them to use passive resistance the same way that Gandhi and Martin Luther King did to fight injustice in their own countries. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa told me that he could not compete with Soviet tanks, so he worked to change his country through evolution, not revolution. In his apartment he had pictures of the Pope, and he wore a pin with the likeness of Jesus and the Black Madonna on his lapel. Solidarity was down, but not out. Freedom would not be denied.

In June 1987, John Paul II made his third trip to Poland since becoming Pope. The communist authorities publicly warned that it would not tolerate any protests by Solidarity activists.

The Pope stuck it to them.

I attended a large open air mass in Gdansk, where a large altar in the shape of a wooden ship was built in a field near Walesa's apartment building. From this ship hung two large anchors, reminiscent of the symbol Poland's underground army used when it fought the Nazis and Soviets in World War II. The acronym that symbol stands for: "Poland Fights On!"

In his homily, the pontiff extolled the virtues of free speech, pluralism and human rights. The Pope used the word "solidarity" seven times and urged the Poles. During this mass, a sea of worshippers unfurled hundreds of red Solidarity banners.

By the end of the decade, the Poles had thrown off the shackles of communism. This anti-communist revolution spread throughout Eastern Europe, ending with the Germans tearing down the Berlin War. Make no mistake about it, John Paul II ended the Cold War and saved the world from nuclear annihilation.

John Paul II urged Poland to follow the path of dignity, respect and freedom. In fact, he did that in each of the 129 nations he visited as Pope. Millions of people around the world have attended masses celebrated by this Pope. Each one of them will remember him for addressing injustices that affected them. He also addressed issues that transcended Catholicism. John Paul II was the first Pope to enter and meditate in a synagogue and a mosque. He reached out to build bridges between the world's cultures and religions. He was respected by Christians, Jews and Muslims alike.

The world has never seen such a champion of peace and human rights. For that, John Paul II will be remembered as the most significant figure of the 20th Century. And to that, I say, long live freedom. Long live dignity. Long live the memory of the Polish Pope. (Alex Storozynski Editor in Chief amNewYork 145 West 30th Street, 9th floor)

Citizens of America...

We the People "SHOUT OUT" to all criminal government tyranny in our Police State called America.

We the People Hereby State, "Mr. President, Congress, Government Criminals, Thugs, and Corporate - Banker - Federal Reserve Mafias, We the People who are Citizens of America, will no longer be afraid!"

"YOU BE AFRAID!"

Citizens of America, "We the People" have THE RIGHT to Bear Arms and DEFEND ourselves from tyranny foreign and domestic, just as they did in 1776.

"DO NOT BE AFRAID!" - "NO QUARTER!"

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U.S. Military to Be Used Against American Citizens; Congress to Vote Next Week on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State

Congress to Vote Next Week on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State

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If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad … Wait Until You See What Congress Wants to Do Next Week

 

Washington’s Blog
Sunday, November 27, 2011

The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, Davis, Oakland and elsewhere is bad enough.

 

But next week, Congress will vote on explicitly creating a police state.

The ACLU’s Washington legislative office explains:

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.

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The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.

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The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself. The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday.

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I know it sounds incredible. New powers to use the military worldwide, even within the United States? Hasn’t anyone told the Senate that Osama bin Laden is dead, that the president is pulling all of the combat troops out of Iraq and trying to figure out how to get combat troops out of Afghanistan too? And American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged with a crime. Really? Does anyone think this is a good idea? And why now?

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In support of this harmful bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield” and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial “American citizen or not.” Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because “America is part of the battlefield.”

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The senators pushing the indefinite detention proposal have made their goals very clear that they want an okay for a worldwide military battlefield, that even extends to your hometown.

Part of an Ongoing Trend

While this is shocking, it is not occurring in a vacuum. Indeed, it is part of a 30 year-long process of militarization inside our borders and a destruction of the American concepts of limited government and separation of powers.

As I pointed out in May:

The ACLU noted yesterday [that] Congress is proposing handing permanent, world-wide war-making powers to the president – including the ability to make war within the United States:

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As I noted in 2008:

An article in the Army Times reveals that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team will be redeployed from Iraq to domestic operationswithin the United States.

The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with “civil unrest” and “crowd control”.

The soldiers are learning to use so-called “nonlethal weapons” designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.

This violates posse comitatus and the Constitution. But, hey, we’re in a “national emergency”, so who cares, right?

(We’re still in a declared state of national emergency).

I noted a couple of months later:

Everyone knows that deploying 20,000 troops on U.S. soil violates Posse Comitatus and the Constitution.

And everyone understands that staging troops within the U.S. to “help out with civil unrest and crowd control” increases the danger of overt martial law.

But no one is asking an obvious question: Does the government’s own excuse for deploying the troops make any sense?

Other Encroachments On Civil Rights Under Obama

As bad as Bush was, the truth is that, in many ways, freedom and constitutional rights are under attack even more than during the Bush years.

For example:

Obama has presided over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history — even more so than Nixon.

As Marjorie Cohen – professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild – writes at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy:

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is facing court-martial for leaking military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, is being held in solitary confinement in Quantico brig in Virginia. Each night, he is forced to strip naked and sleep in a gown made of coarse material. He has been made to stand naked in the morning as other inmates walked by and looked. As journalist Lance Tapley documents in his chapter on torture in the supermax prisons in The United States and Torture, solitary confinement can lead to hallucinations and suicide; it is considered to be torture. Manning’s forced nudity amounts to humiliating and degrading treatment, in violation of U.S. and international law.

Nevertheless, President Barack Obama defended Manning’s treatment, saying, “I’ve actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures . . . are appropriate. They assured me they are.” Obama’s deference is reminiscent of President George W. Bush, who asked “the most senior legal officers in the U.S. government” to review the interrogation techniques. “They assured me they did not constitute torture,” Bush said.

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After State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley criticized Manning’s conditions of confinement, the White House forced him to resign. Crowley had said the restrictions were “ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid.” It appears that Washington is more intent on sending a message to would-be whistleblowers than on upholding the laws that prohibit torture and abuse.

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Torture is commonplace in countries strongly allied with the United States. Vice President Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s intelligence chief, was the lynchpin for Egyptian torture when the CIA sent prisoners to Egypt in its extraordinary rendition program. A former CIA agent observed, “If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.” In her chapter in The United States and Torture, New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer cites Egypt as the most common destination for suspects rendered by the United States.

As I pointed out in March:

Former constitutional law teacher Glenn Greenwald says that – in his defense of state secrecy, illegal spying, preventative detention, harassment of whistleblowers and other issues of civil liberties – Obama is even worsethan Bush.

Indeed, Obama has authorized “targeted assassinations” against U.S. citizens. Even Bush didn’t openly do something so abhorrent to the rule of law.

Obama is trying to expand spying well beyond the Bush administration’s programs. Indeed, the Obama administration is arguing that citizens shouldnever be able to sue the government for illegal spying.

Obama’s indefinite detention policy is an Orwellian nightmare, which willcreate more terrorists.

Furthermore – as hard as it is for Democrats to believe – the disinformation and propaganda campaigns launched by Bush have only increased under Obama. See thisand this.

And as I pointed out last year:

According to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is considered “low-level terrorism”. And see this, this and this.

An FBI memo also labels peace protesters as “terrorists”.

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A 2003 FBI memo describes protesters’ use of videotaping as an “intimidation” technique, even though – as the ACLU points out – “Most mainstream demonstrators often use videotape during protests to document law enforcement activity and, more importantly, deter police from acting outside the law.” The FBI appears to be objecting to the use of cameras to document unlawful behavior by law enforcement itself.

The Internet has been labeled as a breeding ground for terrorists, with anyone who questions the government’s versions of history being especially equated with terrorists.

Government agencies such as FEMA are allegedly teaching that the Founding Fathers should be considered terrorists.

The government is also using anti-terrorism laws to keep people from learning what pollutants are in their own community. See this, this, this andthis.

Claims of “national security” are also used to keep basic financial information – such as who got bailout money – secret. That might not bode for particularly warm and friendly treatment for someone persistently demanding the release of such information.

The state of Missouri tried to label as terrorists current Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters, former Congressman Bob Barr, libertarians in general, anyone who holds gold, and a host of other people.

And according to a law school professor and former president of the National Lawyers Guild, pursuant to the Military Commissions Act:

Anyone who … speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an “unlawful enemy combatant” and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.

Obama has refused to reverse these practices.

There Is Still a Chance to Stop It

The ACLU notes that there is some hope:

But there is a way to stop this dangerous legislation. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) is offering the Udall Amendment that will delete the harmful provisions and replace them with a requirement for an orderly Congressional review of detention power. The Udall Amendment will make sure that the bill matches up with American values.

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The solution is the Udall Amendment; a way for the Senate to say no to indefinite detention without charge or trial anywhere in the world where any president decides to use the military. Instead of simply going along with a bill that was drafted in secret and is being jammed through the Senate, the Udall Amendment deletes the provisions and sets up an orderly review of detention power. It tries to take the politics out and put American values back in.

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Now is the time to stop this bad idea. Please urge your senators to vote YES on the Udall Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.

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