/2011/12/27/message-to-president-obama-veto-ndaa/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/12\/27\/message-to-president-obama-veto-ndaa\/","trash":"","name":"message-to-president-obama-veto-ndaa","parent":"","title":"Message to President Obama: Veto NDAA","date":"2011-12-27 23:44:26","filepath":"posts\/2000989_message-to-president-obama-veto-ndaa.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Here is a message sent to President Obama concerning NDAA.\n<blockquote>Subject: Veto NDAA\n\nHonor your oath and uphold the constitution by vetoing the National Defense Authorization Act (HR 1540). \u00a0Send the whole bill back requesting a cleaner version with the detainment and extradition portions removed. \u00a0This is a time when you can publicly shame Congress for being detrimental to our civil liberties. \u00a0In the end you may actually garner a few independent, moderate, and libertarian votes in 2012.\n\nAlthough, you can't take the moral high ground since you ordered the killing of an American citizen and separately killing his son without Due Process in Yemen (a country in which we are not militarily engaged), you still have an opportunity to right some wrongs and stand up for what defines America.\n\nOf course, I have written my Congressmen, but you are next in line in the \"checks and balance\" system we enjoy in the US. \u00a0Please, don't fail us.\n\nA concerned citizen,\n[REDACTED]<\/blockquote>\n<em>read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/2011\/12\/21\/letter-to-congress-ndaa-hr-1540\/\">a letter to Pelosi, Boxer, and Feinstein<\/a> about NDAA<\/em>\n\n<em>read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/2011\/12\/22\/boxers-response-to-ndaa\/\">Senator Boxer's response<\/a><\/em>\n\n<em>NDAA? \u00a0Find out more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/tag\/NDAA\">ACLU<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-112hr1540enr\/pdf\/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf\">read the bill yourself.<\/a><\/em>"}}