Action Alert: The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

This communication is to inform everyone in the community that a very important bill was signed by president Obama on Dec 31st, which greatly effects our civil rights.

According to NDAA, "The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)" 

• If you are missing fingers from your hand?
• If you have guns in you home?
• If you have ammunition that is weather proof?
• If you have 7 days for food in your house

 The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a law that grants the U.S. military the "legal" right to conduct secret kidnappings of U.S. citizens, followed by indefinite detention, interrogation, torture and even murder. This is all conducted completely outside the protection of law, with no jury, no trial, no legal representation and not even any requirement that the government produce evidence against the accused. It is a system of outright government tyranny against the American people, and it effectively nullifies the Bill of Rights.

Learn more:

http://www.naturalnews.com/034537_NDAA_Bill_of_Rights_Obama.html#ixzz1iJqfWVLj

http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/#.TwHyiNQbZNt 
NDDA is clearly against all human rights and must not be allowed to stand.   VMPAC urges each one of you to to speak up against this unjust bill by calling and/or sending an message to President Obama stating your displeasure. 

You can do this by either:

• Calling The White House comment line at 202-456-1111 
• Posting an online comment at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments 

You could be potentially suspected as a terrorist, and sent to Guantanamo bay and have no right to due process  
Committee hearing were done in secret.
only 14 elected officials voted against it.   

Here is how you can find out if, your representative voted in favor of this act? 

US Senate

http://freakoutnation.com/2011/12/16/the-86-senators-who-voted-to-pass-ndaa-need-to-occupy-the-unemployment-line/

US Congress

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-932&sort=vote

encourage our members to call our representatives to either thank them for voting NO to NDAA or to express our disappointment for voting Aye. 

To find out who is your Congressman and their contact info, please follow the link below;

http://www.house.gov/

To find out who is your Senator and their contact info, please follow the link below;

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Please remember to be polite, and please encourage others in your close circles to do the same.  Following is a sample email to be used as a guideline:

Sample Email:

Mr. President,

When America voted for change, we did not vote for our Constitution and Bill of Right to be violated by the one person entrusted to protect them.  We did not expect our President to fall victim to the power hungry who would seek the to empower our government with a false right to violate the free speech and human rights of any person, much less American citizens.  The National Defense Authorization Act should have been vetoed, and it signing ushers in the means to end our Republic and bring the beginning of dictatorship.  It is a shameful stain on America and we the people will not accept our right being taken for granted.

Waslaams and best regards,

The VMPAC Officials

Spare Ten Minutes a Day to Defend Your Bill of Rights

Stand up with America

Against Indefinite Detentions without Trial
The National Call In Week
To Mark the Bill of Rights Day

America was silent until ACLU and Muslim Peace Coalition USA started mobilizing against the indefinite detention without trial provision of NDAA. Now thousands of people are calling President Obama to do what Congress failed to do: to protect the US citizens from indefinite detention without a trial.

In New York, Boston, Chicago and many other cities there are demonstrations and actions planned for Thursday December 15th, 2011 which is an official Bill of Rights day. If your city, school or communities are planning an action on that day please add that information here so the others know about it as well. You can find other action ideas hereand here.

The NDAA bill passed by Congress is worse than the PATRIOT ACT. This bill contains some of the most dangerous provisions we’ve ever seen: it would allow the government to imprison anyone “suspected” of an offense deemed “terrorism-related” indefinitely and without trial or charges—even US citizens.

The president, the Department of Defense, the FBI, and a bipartisan block of senators all oppose this bill. Why is Congress trying to give the government powers it doesn't even want?

This is America. We have rights, and we demand that our government respects and protects them.

Call Your President Week:

1. Call President Obama to fulfill his promise to veto indefinite detentions in NDAA 2012 bill: 202-456-1111. Tell him on this Bill of Rights Day he must defend our rights of trial by vetoing this bill
2. Call ten friends, colleagues and relatives to call President Obama as well. Do it every day.
3. Forward this action alert to your friends. 
4. Your school:
   • Have your school assembly (fulltime as well as weekend) do a reading of bill of rights on December 15
   • Ask all students to write a letter to President Obama to veto it
5. Your Masjid: Ask your Imam to
   • Give Khutba this Friday on the importance of justice, Bill of Rights & the Indefinite detention without trial
   • Make Dua after each Salat to guide our leaders towards justice
   • Get your interfaith partners to forward this alert to their lists

What is the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)?

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a bill passed by the Congress in early December. It contains provisions that, if made law, would order the military to arrest, and indefinitely detain, even US citizens merely accused (but never proven) of involvement in terror-related crimes. Americans who care about liberty and freedom must take immediate action.

Whether concerned about communities vulnerable to racial profiling in the war on terror, or the ideological profiling apparent in the FBI’s investigation of dozens of peace & justice activists around the country, or simply preserving the right to trial or the longstanding prohibition on domestic military deployment, all Americans share a stake in this struggle.

Why are the NDAA’s detention provisions so bad?

1. The indefinite military detention of US citizens violates the Fifth and the Sixth Amendments, as well as the fundamental Posse Comitatus Act, on which democracy relies. A society is not free when its citizens are subject to arbitrary detention.
2. The NDAA’s detention provisions would authorize the indefinite military detention of activists. The FBI has long treated peace, environmental, and anti-tax activists as terrorists. Legalizing indefinite detention for anyone accused of a terror-related crime would give any future federal government the unchecked power to silence critics, deny the right to trial, and override the presumption of innocence.
3. Transforming America into a police state would do the work of our nation’s enemies.Throwing our rights and liberties to the wind is what terrorists want.
4. The NDAA’s detention provisions would undermine national security. The FBI director, the secretary of defense, the director of national intelligence, President Obama, and the chairs of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees all recognize that expanded military detention harms national security. They understand that detention would not only threaten constitutional rights but also force the military to perform a mission for which it is ill suited, and erode trust in our justice system.
5. Congress is supposed to check and balance the Executive Branch, not expand it. The NDAA would give the Obama administration unprecedented power to detain US citizens without judicial review. Rather than checking and balancing the Executive Branch, Congress passed a bill giving the Executive Branch even more power than the administration wants.

5 Reasons NDAA's Detetion Provisions should Scare You:

1- The indefinite military detention of US citizens violates the Fifth and the Sixth Amendments, as well as the fundamental Posse Comitatus Act.

2- The NDAA’s detention provisions would authorize the indefinite military detention of activists.

3- Transforming America into a police state would do the work of our nation’s enemies.

4- The NDAA’s detention provisions would undermine national security.

5- Congress is supposed to check and balance the Executive Branch, not expand it.