Topic # 3
Hello, my name is Ibrahim and I am going to share information
on NDAA and if it is connected on Zeitoun's experience in prison. The NDAA
(National Defense Authorization Act) is a bill that was signed into United
States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama. The bill basically stated
that it funds our military for this year and the United States Government are able to detain
whomever they want without charging that person with any crime or giving a
trial if they are suspected in being a terrorist even if the suspect is a citizen
within our country. As for those who oppose it, a political group called
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
are against this bill because they believe it might look like a fix in
protecting ourselves from terrorists but it breaks our country's rights and
people's freedom.
I believe
there is a connection between Zeitoun from the book Zeitoun by Dave Eggars and the NDAA because after Hurricane Katrina,
Zeitoun experiences imprisonment with no connection to the outside world. He
was militarily abducted by the army of U.S government for being suspected of a
terrorist. His right's of being a citizen of The United States were stripped
off and wasn't even able to make a phone call to family or a lawyer. This is
the experience I think the NDAA bill might give to everyone in the U.S.A and
the scary fact about this would be that its legal.
