I believe the law allows the Military and their Commander in chief to declare America a “Battle Zone”. With this declaration in effect it allows the Military to arrest Americans as Terrorists. Under this arrest they can be incarcerated for as long as they like with no further charges placed against them, and without benefit of an attorney.
As I read this Posse Comitatus and Habeas Corpus are ignored in violatiopn of the Constitution. Now I am no lawyer, and I am not a Constitutional scholar, but if I am wrong tell me where misrepresentation is.
Read the Constitution where its says the privilege of the writ of habeus corpus may be suspended in the event of rebellion or invasion.
The indefinite detention of a belligerent comes from the law of armed conflict which provides for the indefinite detention of enemy prisoners of war and non-combatant belligerents during the war. The general idea is that you don't want the enemy running loose around the country trying to blow things up and kill people while the war is going on, you don't want to kill unarmed prisoners to keep them from causing the forgoing mischief, and you cannot afford to set them free to come back and try killing you again. So, you detain them indefinitely, because you don't know how long the war is gong to last. Duh! What is so hard to understand such a simple matter of commonsense that you don't want to let people run loose who are trying to kill you and destroy your nation?
This legislation is very specific about it applying only to the people engaged in the attacks and who are not U.S. citizens. How can only person make it any plainer and better understood?
People are getting really stupid over this simple to understand issue and making the most outrageous misrepresentations of the wording in the legislation.
Get a grip People! You are shooting yourselves in the head with this issue, and for no good reason.