This has been an active topic on FR the last couple of weeks. Do a search, there are at least a dozen threads on the issue.
So much for the TEA Party.
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I will take this opportunity to point out that during the course of human history, far more people have been deprived of their freedom, posessions, and lives by their own governments than by foreign invaders.
This lunacy has GOT to stop!
Notwithstanding the fact I agree with Cowboy Jay, I am having trouble with the level of excitement over this. In my PDF version pages 361-363 for Sec. 1032 U.S. citizens and lawful resident aliens are excluded.
LINK: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1867pcs/pdf/BILLS-112s1867pcs.pdf
Since SCOTUS reversed course on the detainees at Gitmo and yanked away a power that Presidents had had since FDR, it seems highly unlikely that they’d be cool with this.
Cue DHS memo of a couple of years back........