From Truthdig.com, an article titled, 'Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You', by Chris Hedges explaining the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and why it is dangerous.
Quote from the article: "Our 16 national intelligence agencies and army of private contractors feed on paranoia, rumor, rampant careerism, demonization of critical free speech and often invented narratives. They justify their existence, and their consuming of vast governmental resources, by turning even the banal and the mundane into a potential threat. And by the time they finish, the nation will be a gulag."
Priorities, indeed.