Defend Principles - excellent Anchorage Daily News editorial re defense authorization bill.

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/2011/12/07/2207905/our-view-defend-principles.html

Without doubt, the United States needs the means to defend itself from terrorists.

Without doubt, the United States should not, in providing for that defense, violate the constitutional principles that define a free people possessed of rights that no government can take away at its discretion.

That's what provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act do.

They give the president authority to order the military to detain U.S. citizens, on U.S. soil, suspected of terrorist or related activities. And that detention can be without end, for the duration of a war that may have no end, without legal representation, formal charges, the right to face accusers or the right to a trial.

This is flat wrong and patently, dangerously un-American.

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Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/07/2207905/our-view-defend-principles.html#ixzz1fvH6eWkm

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Morning kick.

I posted this late last night, and I want it to get more visibility. I'm kind of proud of local paper for stepping up like this.

[roguevalley]

2. kick +2 blue. I am proud of them too. Now if we could just unload

Young