http://www.easternecho.com Earlier this month the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 93 to 7 in favor of approving the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes the military to unilaterally detain indefinitely without trial any individual anywhere in the world – including U.S. en-us Gryphon 2.3.1-dsw (pewabic)/Foundry5 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:55:34 -0500 webmaster@easternecho.com http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3190 I don’t understand how every American doesn’t realize how chilling this is. Nazi Germany was founded upon similer legislation. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:49:54 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3190 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3191 If we do not protect ourselves physically, there is no hope for intellectual and spiritual freedom in the long term. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:11:41 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3191 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3192 Sam Adams is rolling in the grave of all defenders of freedom. Stop this evil now or we will all be victims if it we are not already. Their hands are tightening around our throats. They would happily be our jailors. Your freedom is in your hands alone. Live free or die! Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:12:17 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3192 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3193 The real enemies of the state are the politicians that support this garbage legislation. Regardless of the R or D in front of their names these clowns answer only to money. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:15:10 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3193 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3194 Hitler’s legislation was known as ‘the Enabling Act’, it gave him power over German citizens as an absolute ruler, and you know the rest of the story… Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:17:42 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3194 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3196 we the people must band together to save our country, i did not go to war for this!!!!!!!! we must not let the military industrial complex destroy our way of life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! six waltons have more wealth than 1/3rd of this nation, that’s sick and so wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! protesting this will end your life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:20:19 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3196 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3198 Sam Adams is rolling in the grave of all defenders of freedom. Stop this evil now or we will all be victims if it we are not already. Their hands are tightening around our throats. They would happily be our jailors. Your freedom is in your hands alone. Live free or die! Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:36:11 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3198 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3200 Not sure about anyone else’s particular area, but all that most people around me in Southern California seem to care about is the Lakers, medical weed, and a couple of popular brands of horse urine they call beer. What you good folks are saying (and I absolutely agree) is way over these people’s heads. But back when I went to school (50 years ago), the average 8th grader read at about a 10th grade level (as I recall, according to tests we all took). Some kids were way past that. What would you imagine the reading level to be of today’s “average 8th grader?” I don’t know, and don’t think I want to know. Jefferson, for all his faults, warned us that we needed an educated population to sustain a free society. But somehow, I don’t think the “education” kids get today from Madison Avenue, or even their schools (rote memorization for tests so schools can keep their funding), is quite what he had in mind. Nor do I think what you learn in science and math classes, valuable as all that may be, quite counts either. Back in the 1930s, the University of Chicago and its president Hutchins and key faculty members saw this problem of the “value free” sciences way ahead of their time. Today, their influence has all but disappeared. As a result, what 50 years ago might have caused riots in the streets flies over most people heads. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:18:49 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3200 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3201 This bill “legalizes” the same activities that the Nixon Administration engaged in during the Vietnam War. The Obama Administration with the help of not a few Republicans is attempting to permanently establish a police state for the benefit of the elite and to the detriment of the citizen and permanent legal resident. It’s patently unconstitutional and borders on treason. SGT, IN, ABN, MTN, OEF 2010 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:40:40 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3201 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3213 Support of this bill by the Democrats, including Obama, should remove the last doubt from anyone’s mind that BOTH major parties are harnessed together in support of the 1% (or perhaps 0.1%). Election of the “lesser evil” is perhaps even worse than election of the greater evil, since many of the people who would normally be loudly protesting such outrageous legislation are silent because they don’t want to weaken the man they helped elect. Every decent American should boycott both the Democratic and Republican parties and cast their votes for a decent third party. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:55:34 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3213