“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
IS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION UNDER SIEGE?
MARTIAL LAW WARNING
ON TODAY’S EDITION OF SIGNS OF THE TIMES
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Uploaded March 1, 2016: Many civil liberties advocates fear it might be. They’re worried about a provision tucked into the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate last week, that would allow the military to detain without a trial any American citizen accused of being a terrorist, or of supporting terrorists who plot attacks against the United States. The ACLU called the proposal “an extreme position that will forever change our country.”
The indefinite detention provision is just one of many trends in policing and law enforcement that have civil liberties advocates alarmed. New external threats, as well as technological advancements, are posing new challenges to our Constitutional rights, advocates say. Policymakers are debating those issues in Congress and in the courts right now, and the decisions they make could have fundamental consequences for what it means to be an American.
HERE ARE FIVE ISSUES THAT ARE
ESPECIALLY WORRISOME TO
CIVIL LIBERTIES WATCHDOGS:
ESPECIALLY WORRISOME TO
CIVIL LIBERTIES WATCHDOGS:
1. INDEFINITE MILITARY DETENTIONS OF U.S. CITIZENS
The provision, part of the bill that authorizes Pentagon spending for 2012, was drafted by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan and Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and has bipartisan support in the Senate The bill, however, takes the power to arrest and detain terrorists away from law enforcement officials, like the police or FBI, and gives it to the military, which, under the law, would have the power to imprison an American.
2. TARGETING U.S. CITIZENS
At a national security conference last week, the lawyers for the Obama administration, CIA counsel Stephen Preston and Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson, said American citizens are legitimate targets.
3. ARRESTING WITNESSES FOR RECORDING POLICE ACTIONS
The raids at Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country have earned media attention primarily for their glaring instances of police brutality. But they’ve also tested the boundaries of police authority when it comes to limiting media access to police operations.
4. USING GPS TO TRACK YOUR EVERY MOVE
The Supreme Court is scheduled to rule soon on a case that could have far-reaching consequences for privacy in the 21st Century. The justices were asked to decide whether the police could use GPS devices to track people suspected of crimes without first obtaining a warrant. Police across the country use GPS devices to track the movements of thousands of criminal suspects every year, but critics say the practice violates the Fourth Amendment prohibition against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
5. SURVEILLANCE DRONES SPYING ON AMERICAN SOIL
These drones, and other tactics imported from battlefield to American soil, are an example of how the “war on terror” has threatened core protections guaranteed to American citizens by the Constitution, civil liberties advocates say. The erosion of these protections has been supported by both Democrats and Republicans alike. And, as the ACLU put it, the debate over these tactics “goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans.”
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LAST DAYS SIGNS OF THE TIMES
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. ~ Matthew 24:6-8JESUS CHRIST BRIEFING HIS DISCIPLES