politics - 2011-Dec-26

• Dec_26_2011
  
  Amazing. A rational perspective from DailyKos...
  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/25/1048711/-Montanans-Launch-Recall-of-Senators-Who-Approved-NDAA-Military-Detention-Merry-Christmas,-US-Senate
  
  > "The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees all U.S
  > citizens:
  >
  > "a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and
  > district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."
  >
  > The National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA 2011) permanently
  > abolishes the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, "for the duration
  > of hostilities" in the War on Terror, which was defined by President
  > George W. Bush as "task which does not end" to a joint session of
  > Congress on September 20, 2001.
  >
  > Those who voted Aye on December 15th, 2011, Bill of Rights Day, for NDAA
  > 2011 have attempted to grant powers which cannot be granted, which
  > violate both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution and the
  > Declaration of Independence.
  >
  > The Montana Recall Act stipulates that officials including US senators
  > can only be recalled for physical or mental lack of fitness,
  > incompetence, violation of the oath of office, official misconduct, or
  > conviction of a felony offense. We the undersigned call for a recall
  > election to be held for Senator Max S. Baucus [and Senator Jonathan
  > Tester] and charge that he has violated his oath of office, to protect
  > and defend the United States Constitution."
  >
  
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