Holy shit this is scary. The international group, Anonymous has released a new video titled “Message to the American People” that discusses a recent bill passed by the U.S. Senate. I tend to consider myself well informed on current events so I find it really disturbing that I haven’t heard a word about this bill. It’s called the National Defense Authorization Act and it takes a fat shit on the Bill of Rights.

Here’s some insight from Spencer Ackerman from Wired.:

There are still changes swirling around the Senate, but this looks like the basic shape of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Someone the government says is “a member of, or part of, al-Qaida or an associated force” can be held in military custody “without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.” Those hostilities are currently scheduled to end the Wednesday after never. The move would shut down criminal trials for terror suspects.

But far more dramatically, the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”