Millions of people all over the world enjoyed their New Year’s Eve in different ways, whether conversing with others at a party or merely sitting on their couch at home watching “Rockin’ New Year,” temporarily unaware of what was happening outside of their holiday bubble.

Little did they know  while they were partaking in the joys of welcoming the new year, President Barack Obama was signing into law bill HR 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012.

Many of you may be thinking “who cares?” or “why does that matter to me?” However, this act matters to everyone as an American citizen, and as a human being.

The NDAA is a law that gives the government the right to detain and torture American citizens if they “pose a threat” to the government. This is supposed to be an act against terrorism, to protect the public from the dangers we are supposedly fighting in Afghanistan. This bill states that anyone “who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaida, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners” or commits a “belligerent act” against the United States government can be held “without trial, until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Forces.” It’s included in the US Bill of Rights that as Americans we have a right to trial. “No punishment without due process of law.” The government seems to have forgotten this.

Again, this doesn’t mean much to some people. Some may be thinking that since they don’t bad rap the government they don’t have to worry. Well, this law permits the government to hold you without trial. Meaning they don’t have to prove that you did anything. They can apprehend you for more reasons than just being a part of al-Qaida.

They are fully capable of detaining you for made up reasons. They need no probable cause and no justification.

This is not the first time the government has done something like this . The Federal Emergency Management Agency  is building hundreds of camps all over the United States, a number of them run by Halliburton. These have been in existence since 2009. They call them “Residential Centers.” They have two to three layers of fencing around the perimeter, warehouses, playgrounds, unusually large furnaces, and atop the fences is barbed wire. Pointing in. Not so much to keep people out, but to keep them in. Along the length of the fencing is a railroad track. Army and government trains are commonly seen on it.  And outside of the FEMA camps is a notice board. One alarming thing it said is “do not bring on the grounds any instrument that may be used as an aid in attempting escape.” The word “escape” implies that people do not want to be there. Perhaps this is why they are often compared to the Nazi concentration camps used during World War II.

The former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, stars in a television show titled “The Conspiracy Theory.” His soul purpose is to alert the American public of what the government is brewing. In one episode, he explored these FEMA camps. What he saw, and what I saw through the eye of the camera, was utterly shocking. Behind the double or triple fences of the FEMA camps was a playground. A playground with children already using it. These camps are already in use. Not just for fugitives, illegal aliens, or al-Qaida members. But for American women, children, and entire families.

He also explored outside of the camp. He found an open field almost completely full of large plastic black boxes. They are called “casket liners,” but in Nazi Germany they would stack  three or four people deep inside of them and send them to the crematory. There were hundreds of thousands of these “casket liners” lying around. It seems that someone is preparing for a pandemic of some sort.
    The NDAA was not a supported bill in the United States. Only 1 in 4 Americans supported the NDAA, yet Obama still passed it. Many senators were actually paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to pass the NDAA. Ohio senator, Robert Portman not only voted in favor of it, but was paid $272,853 to do so.

The government has been doing this for years. Eroding our rights slowly to make us conform to their ideals. The NDAA is just another step in this direction. This is supposed to be America, land of the free. So can we please be free now?