Showing posts with label Naomi Wolf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Naomi Wolf. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2012

How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act

It is done. President Obama has signed the National Defense Appropriations Act, which includes Amendment 1031, which allows for the military detention of American citizens.

Naomi Wolf warns that military power turned inward has always resulted in the beating up of journalists and editors, but also, she notes, government leaders. Wolf wrote this just a few days ago before the NDAA was signed and passed into law:
US Congresspeople and Senators may think that their power protects them from the treacherous wording of Amendments 1031 and 1032: but their arrogance is leading them to a blindness that is suicidal. The moment they sign this NDAA into law, history shows that they themselves and their staff are the most physically endangered by it. They will immediately become, not the masters of the great might of the United States military, but its subjects and even, if history is any guide — and every single outcome of ramping up police state powers, unfortunately, that I have warned for years that history points to, has come to pass — sadly but inevitably, its very first targets.
Wolf's full discussion, as she chronicles the history of military given full power, is a must read and here.

(htLewRockwell)