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Saturday, July 20, 2013

CA - Liberty Preservation Act Passes Senate Public Safety Committee Unamiously

OFF THE WIRE
Cassandra Joiner

SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Donnelly’s Assembly Bill 351 – the Liberty Preservation Act – passed out of the Senate Public Safety Committee today with a 7-0 vote.
On the eve December 31, 2011, President Obama reauthorized the National Defense Authorization Act – a military spending bill that specifies the United States Department of Defense’s annual budget and expenditures – with two additional sections which provide the federal government the power to indefinitely detain any American citizen without charge or trial.
“The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield,” said Anthony D. Romero, the ACLU’s Executive Director in a recent press release.
A.B. 351 would prohibit California authorities from complying with sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA. Both of these statutes violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.
“A.B. 351 will preserve Californian’s rights from a government that has grown far beyond its morally or Constitutionally justifiable authority,” Assemblyman Donnelly said, “We cannot allow the federal government to unilaterally strip us of our rights.”
A.B. 351 was referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee.