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To: null and void

Alex Jones is nothing more than a fear monger.

I mean, everythings a conspiracy with this guy.

Didn’t know there is a rabid anti-Alex thing, goin on.


24 posted on 01/02/2012 6:25:31 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

Jonathon Turley and Glenn Greenwald seem like fear mongers too. Look at this passage from Turley :

The changes were the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after key amendments protecting citizens were defeated.
The provision merely states that nothing in the provisions could be construed to alter Americans’ legal rights.
Since the Senate clearly views citizens are not just subject to indefinite detention but even execution without a trial,
the change offers nothing but rhetoric to hide the harsh reality.

So here is is actually saying that the bill does not change the Senate’s current views on detaining citizens. So if the Senate viewed US Citizens as potentially subject to indefinite detention before the bill like he is saying-and if it does, it is clearly under only highly specific circumstances-then it is unclear how this bill somehow represents a sort fo huge movement towards an out and out police state where the military is arresting citizens anytime the govt says it doesnt like them. Even Turley here is stating that the bill does not do anything to change the Senate’s current position on detaining Citizens. Which means that someone detained by the miltary would be able to contest, in trial, whether or not they are included in the provisions and whether or not existing law allows for them to be detained, possibly indefinitely, without trail. And he ends it with “hide the harsh reality”, not very helpful in explaining why we should be thinking that we are becoming a police state. Since it can certainly be argued that existing law requies US citizen detainees to a trial and a lawyer-and SCOCUS has ruled numerous times that it does.


62 posted on 01/02/2012 8:21:24 PM PST by emax
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