"The military is fighting for our freedoms." Truth or Propaganda?

[SamuelRSmith]

According to my Facebook, the Senate today voted (61 Ayes) for the NDAA 2012. Which included in it the ability for the President to indefinitely imprison any person, US Citizen or not, without trial and without charge, all in the name of "The War on Terror". Obama, earlier in the year, ordered the assassination of US Citizen Al-Awaki and his 16 year old son. President Obama also started bombing Libya, and the Congress turned a blind eye.

  The Patriot Act included, amongst other things, the ability for the FBI to self-write warrants. Under the Patriot Act, if you are handed one of these warrants you are not allowed to tell anyone about them. So, if you run a bank, and the FBI hands over a self-written warrant to search a customer's account, the bank cannot inform the customer. If you are handed one of these warrants, you can not tell a single soul - not even your own family, the Patriot Act even forbids you from discussing such warrants in open court, under oath, when directly questioned about said warrant - not only does this infringe your right to free speech, but it also makes it illegal for you to tell the truth in court!

Using one of these self-written warrants, they can enter your home while you are not there, and place bugs in there. They do not have to tell you about these bugs up until 18 months after they were placed.

  Under the Espionage Act, you cannot criticize the Government during war time. There are also the conscription laws that assumes that, essentially, your life is your Government's.

You have troops dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, supposedly in the name of freedom or democracy, yet there's a President in the White House who can assassinate and imprison citizens, and bomb countries without asking anyone's approval. You, as a citizen, can be forced to fight in a war, whether you agree with it, or not. The FBI now has powers beyond that of even the Stalin or Hitler regime.

It's a shame, because the first law that Congress passed - enshrining the Declaration of Independence into American law - states that it is the "duty" of the citizens to abolish any Government that becomes tyrannical [paraphrased], yet we're now in a situation in that if any citizen tried to uphold the law, the President could theoretically order their assassination, or imprisonment, and most of the media/population would probably side with the President!

For the love of God, I hope Ron Paul wins in Iowa. I really do.