NDAA

"In other words, the military could arrest any American citizen suspected of being a domestic terrorist and throw them into a military prison indefinitely. Beyond being incredibly inhumane, this section of the bill violates a citizen's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and also ignores the Miranda process that informs criminal suspects of their rights while in police custody."

NEW ORLEANS LIBERAL RESIDENT SPEAKING:

I think having the National Guard in the city of New Orleans is a great idea. We've lived with them here before, and we could do it again. We're having shoot-outs in the streets here -- in MAJOR PUBLIC STREETS like Bourbon Street, crowded with innocent bystanders. On Halloween night alone, there were four separate shootings, resulting in two people dead, and thirteen people wounded. Our murder rate is ten times the national average. As of now, we've had 193 murders for 2011. That compares to 168 murders for 2010. Only about half of all homicides are ever solved. And who is supposed to maintain order: none other that the corrupt and ineffective NOPD.

Having said that, there is zero chance that the mayor would actually call in the National Guard. Mayor Mitch Landrieu ran on cleaning up the corrupt police force and crime. And to allow the National Guard to come in and "assist" would be admitting failure to his campaign promise. Therefore it is politically toxic and will never happen under his watch.
~Nabe8

Anudder Wodka for da road Comrade?

What a freaking joke!!! They never change their tune...it's always in the name of "safety" but people fall for it every time!

Seems like some kind of Information war is going on.

This is the country the wrong-wingers worked so hard to make, the corporate-fascist states of amerika.

Welcome to Orwell World.

People get violent and lash out when they feel they have no other option...

Much like a wild animal (especially an injured one, which many Americans are even if only psychologically) if you corner and threaten it, and it sees no hope, no future, and no options, it will lash out, and that's what the American public is doing in growing numbers. The answer isn't to further clamp down, even those doing the clamp down won't be able to handle it for long. Much like the soldiers that die of higher rates of suicide, even those you try to hire to cage the rest of us WILL break down.

Our jobs, and corporate sponsored "American Dream" isn't coming back.... The longer people go seeing that they were expendable, that their jobs and their futures were secondary to the bottom line.... It even changes their value systems, many people don't even want that bullshit mass-media pushed illusion of a dream....

The power struggle needs to come to an end, we aren't "subjects" of the oligarchs, continuing to cage dissenting views and lifestyles (such as the recreational drug user that was lured into to the only chance of money; dealing), forcing us to live by so many regulations while the corporations just buy out our representatives, destroy the environment, buy up all the resources, and try to sell us back the only clean air, and water they've managed not to contaminate..... While killing or caging all who stand in the way is coming to an end regardless...