I have lost no significant “rights” at all.

I hear alot of lip service on this notion but I think we continue to live in the freest of nations and continue to enjoy a staggering amount of substantive and almost comical procedural rights.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tyranny-Good-Intentions-Constitution/dp/0307396061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339432744&sr=8-1

Ted: You’re right. I haven’t lost any rights under this president. All my rights were lost under previous presidents.

— John Seiler

How do you know ANYONE has been disappeared?

Imn a nation with a fre press unlike the 3rd world if we hear about abuses I would be right there with you. Here nothing is occurring. Like I said, what rights have you lost under this President? Not sure you’ve made the case of any.

Ted wrote, “The NDAA is a tool which if properly used by law enforcement has safeguards and protects us.” No it isn’t. It’s the American version of the Enabling Acts, allowing the government to do anything, at any time, to anybody. It’s a complete subversion of the Bill of Rights and the rule of law.

“Here’s one— the police under our Constitution have the authority to kick your door down at 3 am without knocking and noticing as required by many statutes. They can do it when they can articulate exigent circumstances that might create loss of evidence by destruction from the terrorists/crooks.” Yes, when they have a warrant from a court. My father was a district judge in Michigan, 1960-85, and I remember cops coming to our door for him to sign a warrant at 10 pm for a 2 am raid. The next day, he would arraign the accused persons in his court, and assign them court-appointed attorneys if they needed them. A trial would be conducted within a couple of months before a jury, unless a plea bargain was made.

The NDAA is different. No warrant is needed. No court date the next day. No arraignment. No defense attorneys.

“Name 5 people who have been wronged under the new law?” The law is new and the abuses will come later. And by definition, a law allowing the government to “disappear” somebody and not tell anybody about it will be impossible to monitor. Maybe “5 people” — five American citizens — already have been “disappeared.”

Either this country respects our rights and liberties under the Bill of Rights, or we’ve become like the Third World dictatorships our government now is sending drones to. Come to think of it, the government is going to use drones against us, too.

— John Seiler