In this blog I`m going to write a paragraph about the NDAA and its similarity to Zeitoun`s experience during the hurricane.


     On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA), codifying indefinite military detention without charge or trial into for the first time in American history. The NDAA`s dangerous detention provisions would authorize the president and all futures presidents to order the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield. Meanwhile, the government can come in, arrests you and hold you indefinitely with notice, no trial, no charges. In fact, according to the senate`s committee, who wrote the Act, under Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S citizen detained on U.S soil in military custody, and many in congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. However, the opposite to the detention provisions came from Secretary of Defense Lean Panetta, CIA Director David Petraeus, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, White house adviser for the counter terrorism John Brennan, and DOJ National Security Division head Lisa Monaco. I believe that these people know about security and they also know what is right but the senates ignored them. Basically, the ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. The essence of this point is that every American citizen must be protected and helped keep his right. In Dave Eggers book, there is quite similarity in how Zeitoun was arrested and being held and sent to prison with no charges and nobody knew where he was. As we know in the book that zeitoun was innocent what he was doing was just protecting his business, helped people and fed dogs. This case could happen if someone would be arrested and would be innocent. Everyone know that prison is not a joke. I think that if someone is arrested, he has to be charged with a crime. I understand that this law is trying to protect people from terrorism but its not everybody is suspected to be terrorist.