National Defense Authorization Act

Many of us realize that the threat of terrorism is an issue facing the United States, but is it as big of a deal as the government likes to put on? Recently President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act which basically gives the United States military authorization to arrest and detain anybody suspected of terrorism in the United States. It expands the power of the federal government to fight this War on Terror we have been fighting for far too long. This includes the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists without any type of trial. I find the signing of this bill to be somewhat ignorant on behalf of President Obama. He clearly stated in the article above that he has serious "reservations" about the bill, yet he signed it anyway. I'm sorry but if I have doubts about doing something, especially something that is a big deal, I am not going to do it. For example, if I'm considering buy a new car, but something seems fishy about it, I am not going to go buy it anyway until whatever is wrong with it is fixed.
According to this article the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, has three main functions. The first is to authorize the government to indefinitely imprison someone without any type of charge or trial. The second thing this law would do is to mandate the military detention of certain citizens of the United States who would be outside of military control if not for this law including those civilians detained in the United States. The last function of the NDAA is to transfer to the Department of Defense authorities and responsibilities that are now held by the Department of Justice. I do disagree with this bill, but there are some that are all for it such as Senator Lindsey Graham who feels the law just says for the first time that our homeland is part of the battlefield of this War on Terror, and that people will be arrested and detained without a charge or trial. This news clip somewhat helps explain more what the NDAA is and what is does. I'm sure there are some people out there who completely agree with the NDAA, and that is okay, but to me this is a very wrong thing. It is not right to detain anyone without any kind of charge for doing so. I have also always been raised to believe that everyone has the right to a fair and speedy trial or however that saying goes, so denying someone the right to a trial seems unamerican to me.