A Cry In The Wilderness - Call to Action - Part 2
It is especially fitting prior to this Memorial Day weekend honoring people that gave their lives for the freedoms we enjoy in the United States of America that we spread the message and petition against the slow and not so slow erosion of our fundamental rights as guaranteed by our constitution and Bill of Rights.
A continuation of why I am so passionate about reversing certain provisions of NDAA:
After the elections that were won by the communist party in Czechoslovakia, the government took drastic steps against anyone who had opposed them in the free elections. My dad's family was one of the many families targeted. My grandfather was a newspaper editor and my grandmother was a teacher. Both lost their jobs. My dad was studying journalism at the university and switched to law to try to avoid being kicked out. That move kept him in school a bit longer but he was kicked out anyway. He managed (with the help of family friends) to get some work so he could support his parents. With his girlfriend (my mom) now in Germany, his prospects for a decent future dwindling and knowing he could fly under the radar only so long before he would be kicked out of his present job, he decided (with his parents' urging) to flee.
Once in Germany, he and my mom married. My dad was hired to work for a then fledgling Radio Free Europe on the strength of his dad's reputation. From what I gather, he was a copy editor. One of the provisions of NDAA gives our military is the right to kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil if they are deemed to be a threat to our government. Working for a U.S. backed Radio Free Europe, my dad was certainly a threat to the new communist government in Czechoslovakia. Under the NDAA passed last year, any citizen working on foreign soil would be in danger of assassination by the U.S. military if they were considered a threat to our government no matter what they were actually doing.
This terrifies me. The provisions are way too broad and it is another slippery slope eroding our fundamental rights as guaranteed by our original constitution and Bill of Rights. This erosion of our rights is slowly leading us toward a totalitarian type of government - totally eradicating the freedoms this country was built upon. I wonder why we have not learned anything from history???
Please take some time and sign the petition against, at the very least, the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA. Let our President and Congressional Representatives know that this is a slippery slope that we do not want to go down as it takes away our fundamental rights to due process.
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ndaa_appeal?akid=1365.702686.Zp23qO&rd=1&t=5

