It’s not Church news, but it’s big news for Americans who still value our vanishing civil liberties. President Obama now has the power to arrest and indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial, using the nation’s military forces. This is genuinely alarming. When you take into account that anti-abortion activists are perceived as “domestic terrorists” — no kiddin’! — the alarm only gets louder. Cardinal Burke has warned of the ramifications of an anti-Catholic, anti-family agenda wedded to the Nanny State.
The NDAA’s historic assault on American liberty
By signing into law the NDAA, the president has awarded the military extraordinary powers to detain US citizens without trial
