Doubleplusungood: Adam Smith (D-WA), indefinite detention “hero” of NDAA amendment fame pushes domestic propaganda | Scholars and Rogues
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If you’re not from Washington State, you might only know of Adam Smith for sponsoring HR 4192 – Due Process and Military Detention Amendments Act, a laudable act, to be sure. While it was hardly major news in March when he introduced the bill, news of his sponsorship piggy-backed on the momentous occasion of US District Judge Katherine Forrest’s ruling that, “that Section 1021 of NDAA was facially unconstitutional — a rare finding — because of the potential that it could violate the 1st Amendment” (LA Times, May 18, 2012). Smith gets his mention way down at the bottom (similarly in coverage elsewhere, as well). Sadly, his attempt to protect citizens from indefinite military detention without due process failed 182-238.Late Friday the 18th, however, BuzzFeed broke the news that the same Adam Smith would like you to believe that:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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