Monday, August 13, 2012

What Makes Our NDAA Lawsuit a Struggle to Save the US Constitution

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/10/ndaa-lawsuit-struggle-us-constitution
Time after time, Obama's lawyers defending the NDAA's section 1021 affirm our worst fears about its threat to our liberty

I, like many in this fight, am now afraid of my government. We have good reason to be.

Other advocates have had email accounts repeatedly hacked, and often find their electronic communications corrupted in transmission (some emails vanish altogether). This is an increasing form of pressure that supporters of state surveillance and intervention in the internet often fail to consider.

My government, meanwhile, seems to have lost the ability to discern the truth about the US constitution any more; I and many others have not. We are fighting for due process and for the first amendment – for a country we still believe in and for a government still legally bound by its constitution.

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