More interesting is how some frightened posters here are now adopting the same kind of paranoia that alarmist liberals at salon.som or daily kos or reddit.com have and so are now on the same side-hence why I posted stuff from conservative and liberal sides encouraging people to read the bill carefully before saying that even conservative members of Congress have somehow said that they no longer care about the Constitution.
Wonder how many of those also demand military trials for terrorists which this law ordains? While it does not specifically doesn’t rule such trials out for US citizens, this is nothing new. US citizens have been tried in military courts in the past. See Ex Parte Qurin.
I think the problem is, too many folks do not understand that certain actions may be handled by military courts even for those who have never served. But even when a citizen is detained, he still retains habeus corpus and can require the government to justify his detention.
Another problem. Those who think our military would detain US citizens because Obama demanded that do our military a grave injustice. Such a demand would be unconstitutional and would be rejected.