thanks 999 .... as to the question "I also wonder where the American people were when the right to habeas corpus was removed" ... I'm somewhat bedaffled on that one .... I don't think people are as frightened as they should be ... I think they are angry, I think they are confused, but they are also in a state on numbness. I don't know, but maybe in the not so far off future Americans will wake up some morning find they are suddenly living in a totalitarian state and then they will ask themselves "how did this happen?"

anyway the following link shows that some people are very concerned about the NDA Act, and some are taking action ....

Why I'm Suing Barack Obama

an excerpt from that link .... "Fear is the psychological weapon of choice for totalitarian systems of power. Make the people afraid. Get them to surrender their rights in the name of national security. And then finish off the few who aren't afraid enough. If this law is not revoked we will be no different from any sordid military dictatorship. Its implementation will be a huge leap forward for the corporate oligarchs who plan to continue to plunder the nation and use state and military security to cow the population into submission."

biLL