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Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge - Bloomberg
Ollie, Liability, joo got some splainin' to do!
Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge - Bloomberg
But how could this be? I've been told by SFC Ollie that indefinite detention of US Citizens has "been debunked"! Liability says I "continue to misunderstand the bill".If so then why did a Judge just temporarily block the Bill?A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a part of the National Defense Authorization Act that opponents claim could subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism
Exactly the section I pointed out previously.U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan today ruled in favor of a group of writers and activists who sued President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Defense Department, claiming a provision of the act, signed into law Dec. 31, puts them in fear that they could be arrested and held by U.S. armed forces.
The statute at issue places the public at undue risk of having their speech chilled for the purported protection from al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces - i.e., foreign terrorist organizations, Forrest said in an opinion today. The vagueness of Section 1021 does not allow the average citizen, or even the government itself, to understand with the type of definiteness to which our citizens are entitled, or what conduct comes within its scope.
The plaintiffs claim Section 1021 is vague and can be read to authorize their detention based on speech and associations that are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Ollie, Liability, joo got some splainin' to do!