Michael Webster: America is no longer the Land of the Free!

The United States is no longer the shining light leading the rest of the world in regards to freedom and liberty. The President signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) under the radar late on New Years Eve of 2011. The new law takes away American basic constitutional rights. The new law now in effect robs all Americans of our due process of law, which nullifies many principles and rights afforded all Americans in our Constitution and Bill of Rights guaranteed by our Founding Fathers. These rights were given to us by our founding fathers, and many Americans have given their lives to protect these basic and fundamental rights. President Obama has just stated a policy that he can have any American citizen killed without any charge, without any review, except his own. If he is satisfied that you are a terrorist, he says that he can kill you anywhere in the world, including on American soil, anywhere in the United States. Americans can be arrested and taken to jail without the right of a phone call, right to a lawyer, and without being charged with any crime. With this new law in place, law enforcement can break down your door at your home without warrant, and take you and any member of your family into custody, whisking you off to jail without any charge. He can imprison you in a foreign country and keep you locked up forever, totally without any due process. By this law, enforcement is granted the right to torture American citizens without charge, creating a Guantanamo Prison Style detention for anyone deemed a threat by American authorities. This new law explicitly creates a police state in America.