Patriot Connectors meet

Posted 8/21/12

HAWLEY, PA — Pastor Sean Moon will address the Patriot Connectors on March 12 at the Wallenpaupack High School Library at a forum where he will discuss the National Defense Authorization Act …

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Patriot Connectors meet

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HAWLEY, PA — Pastor Sean Moon will address the Patriot Connectors on March 12 at the Wallenpaupack High School Library at a forum where he will discuss the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Social hour starts at 6:30 p.m. with the meeting taking place at 7 p.m., starting with the Pledge of Allegiance. If there is inclement weather and the school is closed, there will be no Patriot Connector meeting.

The NDAA was first passed by Congress in 1962 and is reinstated every year. The bill was passed to fund the military, but in 2012 Congress, through sections (1021 and 1022) of the NDAA, expanded the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to cover all the citizens of the U.S. The detention authority based on the AUMF could be used by the government to bolster its claim on indefinite detention even when no actual U.S. combat war is going on.

Some of the things that will be discussed: Do we have a “War on Terror?” How is a belligerent act defined? Is saying something against the federal government under the protection of the First Amendment a belligerent act? Does the NDAA define the whole of the U.S. as a battlefield and allow the military to arrest American citizens without charge or trial?

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