In the interest of accuracy and full disclosure, I need to report that the following amendment to the National Defense Appropriations bill (S. 1867) was approved Dec. 1 by a vote of 99-1:
SA 1456. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. Levin and Mr. Durbin)
proposed an amendment to the bill S. 1867, to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such
fiscal year, and for other purposes; as follows:
On p. 360, between lines 21 and 22 [Section 1032], insert the following:
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect
existing law or authorities, relating to the detention of United States
citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States or any other
persons who are captured or arrested in the United States.
The lone dissenter was Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona). This is good news, but we need to remain vigilant. My post yesterday remains true enough. Still makes me want to rethink going to Canada next summer...
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Have you read the book _Nullifying Tyranny_? Unlike almost all conservatives and libertarians who make the case for limited constitutional government, the authors, the Kennedy brothers, are not so naïve as to believe that the document could ever be self-enforcing. “Time has demonstrated the folly of this argument,” they write. They are Jeffersonians, and believe as Jefferson did that the only way such a document could ever conceivably be enforced is through political communities organized at the state and local level. Like past generations of Jeffersonians, they understand the absurdity of believing that the federal government could ever be trusted, through its “supreme” court, to faithfully enforce the constitutional limitations on its own powers. Nullification and secession or the threat of secession are the only possible means of enforcing a written constitution.
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