Today the Bill of Rights is 220 years old - and faces a Congressional DEATH SENTENCE-Down With National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)!

Markin comment:

Many times I place items in this space that I do not agree with, or fully agree with. This is a case in point. The inclusion of the Bill Of Rights to the American Consitution is an important event in humankind's progress. No question. No question either that the founding fathers "forgot" to put them in the original document (1789, so note the difference in anniversary dates) and were put in as a result of tremendous plebeian pressure. Today this National Defense Authorization Defense Act (NDAA) threatens us all, and I mean all. That part is not in question by me. What is in question is whether a little phone call to President Obama is in order. Mass protest, building mass protest, and fighting this thing tooth and nail as we will have to do in the end seems more appropriate. But I will not haggle today. Let's just fight this thing.
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Today the Biff of Rights is 220 years old - and faces a Congressional
DEATH SENTENCE.

Today, Congress is expected to pass the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)of 2012. It makes the whole world a battlefield, possibly forever. It authorizes the military detention of civilians anywhere in the world, including American citizens here at home, who could be held indefinitely as 'suspects' without charges or trial. The NDAA would gut the Bill of Rights, which guarantees due process and access to the courts.

December 15 is Bill of Rights Day - make it the day you stand up for our fundamental freedoms!

PLEASE CALL PRESIDENT OBAMA!
Call the White House at 202 456 III.
Urge President Obama to protect the Bill of Rights and VETO
the NDAA!
Co-sponsored by: ACLU of Massachusetts,American Friends Service Committee - New England, Amnesty International, Boston United National Antiwar Coali¬tion, Come Home Amercia - Boston chapter, Community Change, ISBCC/Muslim American Society- Boston Chapter, Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, Massachusetts Peace Action, National Lawyers Guild - Massachusetts chapter, the National Police Accountability Project, Occupy Boston Action for Peace Working Group, United for Justice with Peace