Virginia Bill Shines Light on Federal NDAA Indefinite Detention Efforts
by: Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
A representative of the people in Virginia has stepped up to prevent the federal government from robbing them of their most precious — and formerly protected — civil rights.
Delegate Benjamin L. Cline understands his constitutional oath “to support the Constitution,” and his bill blocks federal agents from kidnapping Americans under the authority allegedly granted them by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012.
Cline’s bill, HB2144, adopts James Madison’s counsel to “refuse to cooperate with the officers of the Union” when those officers exceed their constitutionally enumerated authority. To Cline’s credit, however, he takes the fight to the feds in a much more direct way.
If the federal government enters Virginia for the purpose of apprehending and indefinitely detaining a citizen of that state, Cline’s measure imposes two mandates.
First, “the U.S. Secretary of Defense shall provide notification within 24 hours of the detention to both the Secretary of Public Safety and the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality in which the citizen is detained.”
Second, “the U.S. Secretary of Defense or his designee shall seek authorization from the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality in which the citizen is detained prior to removal of the citizen from the locality.”
DO YOU REMEMBER HOW YOUR REP. VOTED ON THIS BILL?
Politicians words mean nothing…their vote is the only fact to judge them by.