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Biden, Warren, and Klobuchar all voted for NDAA indefinite military detention of US citizens without charge or trial. Biden by being in the administration that pushed for it and signed it into law.
"Socialist" Sanders One of Few Senators Who Fought for Lost American Right to Jury Trial
"Socialist" Sanders One of Few Senators Who Fought for Lost American Right to Jury Trial
"Socialist" Sanders One of Few Senators Who Fought for Lost American Right to Jury Trial
Despite current efforts to paint Bernie Sanders as a dangerous socialist who would send improperly indoctrinated Americans to gulags, the irony is that Sanders is one of the few US senators who strongly opposed the current law to allow the military to detain US citizens indefinitely, without charge or trial, if the Executive Branch ever claims they are "associated" with terrorism.
In the 2018 iteration of the NDAA bill, which again renewed the provisions, both senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar voted "yea," to pass the bill and all of its sections, including the indefinite military detention of US citizens. As vice president Joe Biden was part of the administration which pushed for the provisions, which Obama signed into legislation.
Sanders has long taken a stand against the Constitution-shredding measure, the culmination of early Bush administration claims that the government could capture and hold US citizens as "enemy combantants" even when captured on American soil.
To be sure, when analyzed by his positions, which he has put forth consistently over 40 years, Sanders' mild form of socialism makes him more in line with FDR and the New Deal than Karl Marx.... "Socialist" Sanders One of Few Senators Who Fought for Lost American Right to Jury Trial