New Hampshire House Bans NDAA's Indefinite Detention

I found this a couple of days ago via Facebook, and thought it would definitely be worth sharing. Perhaps the reaction to the excesses of government (particularly federal government) is starting to see more of a backlash. In any case, this appears encouraging. You can read the most pertinent parts of the article, as well as finding a link to the article itself, below:




Yesterday, the New Hampshire house approved a bill which deems federal indefinite detention powers unconstitutional, and bans “any activity that aids” the federal government in carrying out such powers. The approval was by a unanimous voice vote. The bill will now move on to the state senate for further consideration.

Introduced by Rep. Tim O’Flaherty (D- Hillsborough), the bill quickly garnered co-sponsorship from two republicans and two democrats. Tenth Amendment Center communications director Mike Maharrey praised the bipartisan action. “Some things are so bad that people know it’s time to drop party affiliations and work together. Indefinite detention is really nothing more than kidnapping sanction by law, and the resistance to it from both parties in the state is refreshing news,” he said.  O’Flaherty agreed. “Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians in the House all recognize the importance of defending our rights protecting us from indefinite detention without trial,” he said.  Signed into law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), provisions of the act purport to authorize the federal government to arrest a person without trial until the “end of hostilities,” which some experts point out could be many years.  As constitutional scholar Rob Natelson noted in an analysis of the Act, the federal government is, in essence, claiming the power to detain anyone – within the U.S. or not – and hold them indefinitely without trial.  New Hampshire House Bill 1279 (HB1279) would add to state law that such acts are violations of both the state and federal constitutions. It reads, in part, “The General Court of New Hampshire and the Governor of New Hampshire hold that indefinite detention or transfer to jurisdictions outside the United States of citizens of New Hampshire in particular and citizens of the United States in general are unlawful pursuant to the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part the First, Articles 15, 17 and 19, and the Constitution for the United States of America, Amendments IV, V and VI.”

New Hampshire house unanimously bans NDAA's indefinite detention" from activistpost.com:

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/new-hampshire-house-unanimously-bans.html