Mainstream media unconcerned
about draconian detention bill 
Presidential candidate Ron Paul voiced strong concerns about the
National Defense Authorization act detention provisions during a recent Republican debate, a point duly noted by the American Civil Liberties Union. His son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has been fighting the draconian bill, but those efforts have been largely ignored by mainstream media.

Though Ron Paul is a presidential candidate, reporters evidently have not been following up on his statement, nor have they pressed other presidential candidates about the issue, or if they have, the reports are going unpublished. Mainstream media have been ducking covering the controversy -- which has sparked outrage across the nation -- as a running story. The House has already passed a substantially identical measure.

For example, though Politico reported the Senate vote, the "politics and policy" site has nothing on the political uproar around the country, nothing on the many Americans who support the Pauls, nothing on the outrage coming from the right, left and middle of the road.

The fact that the measure was suddenly sprung on a public kept in the dark and the fact that it solves a problem that does not exist -- U.S. counterterrorism efforts having been effective without such a measure -- indicates that the motive is not what is claimed. What then would be the motive? many wonder.

The Occupy protesters would argue that the mainstream media are owned or controlled by the upper one percent, who may be worrying about protecting their interests over fears of a worldwide economic calamity.

Others would argue that the bill is what the 9/11 conspirators have been aiming for since the "inside job" attacks of a decade ago: to put America under the control of a hidden clique. The behavior of the mainstream media concerning the detention bill is very similar to its behavior concerning the 9/11 coverup.

An example of the reaction:
http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams167.htm

Even supposing the detention bill does not come to be abused, many will wonder why Levin and McCain would give such potent ammunition to "conspiracy theorists." Others will say that the provision needlessly alarms Americans and will promote the activities of private militias, with gun ownership likely to rise nationwide.

The measure is likely to be greeted with skepticism by many Irish Americans, who recall British internment of IRA suspects in the early 1970s. Few, if any, unionists were interned at that time. Reporters and historians have said that internment helped to radicalize much of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland against the British, who originally had been viewed as protectors.

The detention power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.

The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing, before being presented for a full Senate vote, the ACLU said.

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