{"id":16084,"date":"2012-02-08T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T08:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16084"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T08:04:56","slug":"american-freedom-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/08\/american-freedom-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"American freedom and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russia Today<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

The terrifying legislation that allows for Americans to be arrested, detained indefinitely, tortured and interrogated \u2014 without charge or trial \u2014 passed through the Senate on Thursday with an overwhelming support from 93 percent of lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Only seven members of the US Senate voted against the National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday, despite urging from the ACLU and concerned citizens across the country that the affects of the legislation would be detrimental to the civil rights and liberties of everyone in America. Under the bill, Americans can be held by the US military for terrorism-related charges and detained without trial indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Additionally, another amendment within the text of the legislation reapproved waterboarding and other \u201cadvanced interrogation techniques\u201d that are currently outlawed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s exactly the same freedom and democracy that the US is violently spreading to the rest of the world… This is a rather predictable milestone in The War on Terror. \u00a0Terrorists are still winning.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Russia Today reports: The terrifying legislation that allows for Americans to be arrested, detained indefinitely, tortured and interrogated \u2014 without charge or trial \u2014 passed through the Senate on Thursday with an overwhelming support from 93 percent of lawmakers. Only seven members of the US Senate voted against the National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday, … Continue reading American freedom and democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1156,577,1657,2395],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-democracy","tag-law","tag-terrorism","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16764,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/27\/the-age-of-information-not\/","url_meta":{"origin":16084,"position":0},"title":"The age of information. 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