California Law now Nullifies NDAA
In the midst of the melodrama surrounding the government shut down, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB351, a law banning all cooperation with the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
(Antiwar) The NDAA allows the president to place people into indefinite detention by the US military without charges or a trial on “national security” grounds and has sparked a series of lawsuits from Americans who fear detention as political dissidents.
The NDAA has been hugely controversial and several states are considering limited legislation to that end, but California took the matter a step farther and not only forbade cooperation state officials with the NDAA, but also every other federal law present or future that might be used for open-ended detentions…
California’s resolution was backed heavily by civil liberties groups, and that it got such overwhelming bipartisan support to pass unanimously in the state senate and only get a single “no” vote in the assembly was touted as a “big deal” by Tenth Amendment Center Communications Director Mike Maharrey.
(iroots.org) It’s great to see the hard work of liberty activists bearing fruit!
On another Liberty Movement front…
California just legalized industrial hemp http://t.co/K05U6TsLN3 Gov Jerry Brown does something right?
— iroots.org activism (@irootsorg) October 2, 2013
FLASHBACK: Blake Filippi, a lawyer from Rhode Island, talks about a new strategy that a group of attorneys are pursuing to fight the portions of the NDAA that infringe upon our liberties by exercising states’ rights. We reported on this story back in 2012: