georgephillip
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Lead plaintiff Chris Hedges offers this take on US District Judge Katherine Forrest's 68 page opinion that ruled Section 1021 of the NDAA was unconstitutional: "...every once in a while the gods smile on the damned."
Chris elaborates:
"We had none of the resources of the government. (Attorneys) Mayer and Afran worked for weeks on the case without compensation.
"All of us paid for our own expenses. And few people, including constitutional lawyers of Glenn Greenwalds caliber, thought we had a chance.
"But we pushed forward. We pushed forward because all effort to impede the corporate state, however quixotic, is essential..."
"This law was, after all, not about foreign terrorism. It was about domestic dissent. If the state could link Occupy and other legitimate protest movements with terrorist groups (US Day of Rage suffered such an attempt), then the provisions in the NDAA could, in a period of instability, be used to 'disappear' U.S. citizens into military gulags, including the governments offshore penal colonies.
"And once there, stripped of due process, detainees could be held until, in the language of the law, 'the end of hostilities.' In an age of permanent war that would be a lifetime."
Chris Hedges: A Victory for All of Us - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
Chris elaborates:
"We had none of the resources of the government. (Attorneys) Mayer and Afran worked for weeks on the case without compensation.
"All of us paid for our own expenses. And few people, including constitutional lawyers of Glenn Greenwalds caliber, thought we had a chance.
"But we pushed forward. We pushed forward because all effort to impede the corporate state, however quixotic, is essential..."
"This law was, after all, not about foreign terrorism. It was about domestic dissent. If the state could link Occupy and other legitimate protest movements with terrorist groups (US Day of Rage suffered such an attempt), then the provisions in the NDAA could, in a period of instability, be used to 'disappear' U.S. citizens into military gulags, including the governments offshore penal colonies.
"And once there, stripped of due process, detainees could be held until, in the language of the law, 'the end of hostilities.' In an age of permanent war that would be a lifetime."
Chris Hedges: A Victory for All of Us - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig