Explain like I'm Five: The NDAA bill that was recently passed and why it's problematic

54  2013-12-28 by [deleted]

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Hey citizen. You no longer have the right to a trial, a lawyer, or even a damn phone call.

Your government now claims they have the right to toss you in prison, torture you, and throw away the key forever.

THATS NAZI SHIT....

"The 2013 NDAA overturned a 64-year ban on the domestic dissemination of propaganda (described as "public diplomacy information") produced for foreign audiences, effectively eliminating the distinction between foreign and domestic audiences." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2013#Ban_on_domestic_propaganda_overturned

It legalizes the government lying to it's citizens and legalizes psychological operations against it's citizens. Psyops could include fake shooting using actors to manipulate public opinion on gun control, false flag terrorist attacks (whether real or fake)....Then they can legally lie about it and legally push a false narrative.

as important as this is, that was last years bill, not this years

The NDAA is an annual bill setting the budget and expenditures for the DoD. Its an annual procedure and typically very begnign. This years NDAA doesn't do anything criminally or immorally significant.

In 2012 the NDAA authorized the indefinite military detention of citizens. Changes to a previous year NDAA can be made in the current year, so the fact that this year it passed without amending or repealing sections 1021–1022 of NDAA 2012 (indefinite detention clause) is pretty shitty, but shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

So, i wouldn't say this years NDAA is 'problematic'. I mean, it perpetuates the military industrial complex, and thats a problem. It doesn't negate shitty clauses from previous years, so that could be seen as a problem. But taken for what it is, this years NDAA is nothing more than a budget bill.

I've heard something about a cyber-security clause being pushed by Jay Rockefeller? Do you know if that was included in the bill? Also, giving $640 billion to the military-industrial complex with one hand and cutting veteran pensions with the other is really quite fucked up.

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we're not going to do the work for you

learn to research yourself

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perhaps someone with the time with do a tldr eli5 for NDAA