Can we say Garden Plot
Big Government will keep us "safe"...just like it did on September 11!
They attacked Bush mercilessly for wanting to spy on and detain terrorists.
Now we have detainment for citizens and we have cell phone tracking, web page logging and email reading.... where are the marches and the big protests??
hhhhmmmmmm.....
We will no longer be considered Citizens, but Potential Combatants.
You expected something else from a communist?
Why did someone claim that this bill required a close reading? It's fairly obvious that it is unconstitutional. Seems to be a specialty of McCain.
“based on suspected activity.”
I wonder if the PROGRESSIVES have got a re-education camp somewhere that’s big enough to hold the TeaPartiers?
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“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.”
1. Obama thinks he’s Lincoln;
2. like McCain, 0 knows that he and his henchmen from both parties are as popular as turds in the punch bowl; and,
3. the US Constitution is something to be followed only when it suits him.
Despite the photoshopped image of Obama ripping the Constitution, note that the bill was introduced by the 2008 Republican nominee and the favorite Democrat of the Pubbies.
It should now be clear why McCain said Theodore Roosevelt would be his role model if elected President.
Bottom line: the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) is a dead letter.
It means whatever the elites say it means, which is about 150 degrees opposite of what it originally meant. The difference between the Democrat and Republican elites is the difference between 145 degrees and 160 degrees.
Now comrade you know, if you go against the government, in any way that they seem to think you are a threat. You know, like grandma at the tea party, holding her hateful sign. You can be thrown into detention indefinitely.
Echo's of the good ol' USSR.
Or are we just trusting the far-right publication the Atlantic to report this and basing comments on that?
LOC doesn’t have the text yet. It’s S-3081.
From your link to the Atlantic-
2. Criteria for designation of individuals as high value detainees-
E. Such other matters as the President considers appropriate.
Looks like a hand over of power to me.
Scary stuff!!!! The language is loose enough to cover ANYone they want to consider an enemy as falling under this garbage if it passes. Seeing as how the Left have already called tea partiers “domestic terrorists”, this is truly dangerous.
American citizens to be “protected” under the laws of the Geneva convention, foreign combatants out of uniform given full Constitutional protections now.......something JUST doesn’t seem kosher to me. col