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Empire Over Republic  The political, military industrial,
corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our
constitutional republic into a powerful, unaccountable military
empire. Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted 93 to 7 to pass the
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012
which allows the military to operate domestically within the
borders of the United States and to possibly (or most probably)
detain U.S. citizens without trial. Forget that the ACLU called
it "an historic threat to American citizens", this bill is so
dangerous not only to our rights but to our country's security
that it was criticized by the Directors of the FBI, the CIA, the
National Intelligence Director and the U.S. Defense Secretary!
For the first time in our history, if this Act is not vetoed,
American citizens may not be guaranteed their Article III right
to trial.  The government would be able to decide who gets an
old fashioned trial (along with