PEOPLE AGAINST THE NDAA (PANDA)

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WHEN MOST young men his age were fixating on girls, our guest tonight was organizing activists to protest the government’s abuse of power.

Dan Johnson founded People Against the NDAA (PANDA) when he was 18 years old after learning that the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act basically gave the United States government the authority to detain anyone for anything without due process or the right to petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Dan explains why he felt compelled to take on such a project, the obstacles that he had to overcome, and offers some advice from the lessons he’s learned about how to push back against government overreach.

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SECRET DOCUMENT JUST RELEASED PROVES OBAMA CAN KILL AMERICANS WITH DRONE STRIKES

Informing and Equipping Americans Who Love Freedom

America’s Independence Day...

But how free are we really?

Today marks the anniversary of America’s birth as a free nation, when we fought a war against a tyrant and seceded from his kingdom. We thought we had banished tyranny from our shores. We thought we had ratified a Constitution that would compel the government to respect our natural rights. We thought we had established a society based upon the rule of law.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Western Journalism — After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying.

In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at traffic stops or serious crime scenes, they need to get a warrant. The court told small-business owners that they needn’t pay for government-mandated insurance policies that provide for abortions for their employees because the government is without authority to command them to do so. It told the president that he cannot wait until Saturday morning, when the Senate is not in session, to appoint high-level officials whose jobs require Senate confirmation–and then claim that they do not require Senate confirmation because the Senate was in recess. And it told selfless parents who stay home to care for their disabled children that the government may not force them to join health-care labor unions and pay union dues against their will.

Buried in these opinions was a legal memorandum sent to the president on July 16, 2010, nearly four years ago, and released last week, after two years of litigation aimed at obtaining it.

The Obama administration had successfully resisted the efforts of The New York Times and others to induce a judge to order the release of the memo by claiming that it contained state secrets. The judge who reviewed the memo concluded that it was merely a legal opinion, and yet she referred to herself as being in “Alice in Wonderland”: The laws are public, and the judicial opinions interpreting them are public, so how could a legal opinion be secret? Notwithstanding her dilemma, she accepted the government’s absurd claims, and the Times appealed.

Then the government shot itself in the foot when it surreptitiously released a portion of its secret memo to NBC News. This infuriated the panel of federal appellate judges hearing the Times’ appeal, and they ordered the entire memo released. Either it is secret or it is not, the court thundered — and the government, which is bound by the transparency commanded by the First Amendment, cannot pick and choose which parts of its work to reveal to its favorite reporters and which to conceal from the rest of us.

Last week, the administration released the memo. It consists of 40 highly blacked-out pages, the conclusion of which is that the president can order the CIA to kill Americans who are present in foreign countries and who, in the opinion of high-level government officials, pose a threat to Americans and may be difficult to arrest.

The memorandum acknowledges that it is unprecedented in its scope and novel in its conclusion, and requires predicting what courts will do if they review it. Lawyers often predict for their clients what courts will do, and thus from their predictions, extrapolate advice for their clients. But history has recorded no memo before this one that has advised a president in writing that he is free to kill an American who is not engaging in violence. The logic of the memorandum states that Americans overseas who join organizations that promote acts of terror are the equivalent of enemy soldiers in uniform in wartime. It follows, the memo argues, that because Congress has authorized the president to kill foreign terrorists when they are in foreign lands, he can kill Americans there as well.

Conveniently, the memorandum never mentions the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which famously commands that if the government wants the life, liberty, or property of any person, it can only do so via due process. Due process requires a jury trial with its attendant constitutional protections. The only recognized exceptions to this requirement are the individual and collective right to immediate self-defense. Since natural rights trump all positive law, a cop can kill a bank robber who is shooting at him; and soldiers can kill enemy soldiers who are about to shoot at them. At the root of the recognized exceptions to the requirement of due process is the active violence of the perpetrator, such that due process is impossible and such that the threat to life is clear, present, and immediate.

The persons killed pursuant to this secret memo were all Americans. One, Anwar al-Awlaki, the stated target of the memo, was not engaged in combat or armed or on a battlefield when he was killed; he did not wear the uniform of an enemy army, and he was not engaged in active violence at the time of his murder. He was in a car in the desert in Yemen driving to meet his 16-year-old American son. He had been under continuous surveillance by 12 American and four Yemeni intelligence agents for the 48 hours preceding his murder by a CIA drone. The drone that killed him was soon followed by drones that killed his son and two other Americans.

This week marks the anniversary of America’s birth as a free nation, when we fought a war against a tyrant and seceded from his kingdom. We thought we had banished tyranny from our shores. We thought we had ratified a Constitution that would compel the government to respect our natural rights. We thought we had established a society based upon the rule of law.

We were wrong. We have gone from an inherited tyrant to an elected one. I have never heard President Obama say this; but it seems logical that if he thinks he can lawfully kill Americans abroad, he also thinks he can kill us here.

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B. Christopher Agee, Western Journalism — Last year, Barack Obama picked former Acting Assistant Attorney General David Barron as his choice for a vacant seat on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. His brief time at the Justice Department, however, has opened Barron – and the Obama administration – up to some widespread, bipartisan criticism.

According to reports, Barron drafted a memo defending the deadly drone strike against American terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaki. As a result, his nomination is now being held up amid demands for the release of the memo, which has reportedly been cited as justification for the assassination of other American citizens.

The White House has been unresponsive to a court order to that effect; and in response, senators from both parties have promised to stall Barron’s confirmation vote until the administration complies.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spoke out on the matter this week, citing his concern not only about the memo’s contents but the executive branch’s policy of withholding pertinent information from the American people.

“The Obama administration has been extremely resistant in providing information about its drone program, which continues with its refusal to disclose the body of David Barron’s government work,” Cruz said via a press release.

He contends there is a very direct correlation between Barron’s stint at the DOJ and his ability to serve on the appeals court panel.

Cruz asserted that confirming him would be a “grave mistake,” explaining Barron “shaped the government’s policies that are roiling the public today.”

Far from a merely partisan position, Cruz concluded opposition to the nominee should be fierce on both sides of the aisle.

“Any Democrat concerned about civil liberties should have profound concerns here,” he continued. “The Senate’s decision to allow a person such as Mr. Barron to be confirmed by a bare partisan majority without any real attempt to provide proper ‘advice and consent’ is in the long run an even graver mistake.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision last year to strike the minority party’s option to filibuster nominees has also been a thorn in the side of Republicans in the chamber.

In his statement, Cruz also criticized the “so-called ‘nuclear option’ Democrats are using to ram through controversial nominees on strict party-line votes.”

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MASS POPULOUS INDOCTRINATION: GOVERNMENT - NOT GOD - SOLE PROVIDER OF RIGHTS AND LIBERTY!

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The U.S. Constitution

The Supreme Law of the United States of America

Bill Of Rights

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

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—A Lieutenant-Colonel Air Force Chaplain in Alaska was criticized when he used a phrase credited to President Eisenhower who said, “There are no atheists in foxholes.”

—The Obama administration ordered to have Christian crosses removed from chapel buildings overseas in order to make them non-sectarian.

—While chaplains don't have to perform same-sex marriages, they can be punished for refusing to facilitate a homosexual marriage at a military chapel.

In response to these and other attacks, Klingenschmitt is pushing for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (Section 530) that would give free speech and freedom of religion rights in speeches and actions to any military personnel who wish to talk about their faith in Jesus.

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