Now, I don't like the NDAA. Very few people do. But it's hard to blame that on Obama. The parts that people hate that tries to allow for the suspension of habeus corpus was added by the GOP, the attempts by democrats to remove it were filibustered by GOP, and the bill itself was delivered to Obama so late that his choices were to sign it or stop funding the military while Congress worked up a new version. And when Obama signed it he issued a signing statement that the parts that could be construed to affect American citizens will not be read as such by his administration. In addition to ALL that, habeus corpus cannot be denied according to the Constitution, so this act cannot override that in the least.
The Justice Departments defense of the act however, you can be mad at the administration for.
When I get upset at a politician I get mad at them based on facts, not whatever bullshit I happened to pull out of my ass this week.
On another note, this warrantless wiretapping issue is something we should be concerned about, but not to the tinfoil fear of some in this thread. What is being done is legal, even if we don't like it. What's being done is minimal to try to avoid invasion of privacy, even if it's not perfect. While the freedom we enjoy has been chipped at a little since 9/11, it's still better than during most of American history. In the 90's we got "don't ask, don't tell" which is gone now improving Americans' freedoms, in the 80's we were still in the midst of the red scare and the fear being used by the gov't as control, the 70's we still had the Vietnam war and the Kent state massacre, the 60's with Vietnam and government investigating civil rights leaders like MLK, in the 50's you had McCarthyism, in the 40's we had internment camps for American citizens out of fear. It goes back throughout history where the lack of action, the lack of knowledge, the lack of leadership has had us limited in our freedom.
But America is still here. It's still the most free country on this planet. Americans have more access to information than ever before, even if many choose to let themselves be misled when they could easily find out the truth (seriously, if Mitt Romney's mouth is open he's lying to you). So no, we're not perfect. No we don't have unlimited freedom, but that's not a bad thing. Structure and rules are beneficial to society, anarchy is a pretty shitty concept afterall. So how about we react to stuff in an appropriate manner without so much unnecessary fear, or better yet let's be proactive instead of reactive.
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