Posted on 05/15/2011 10:15:18 AM PDT by Nachum
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) has introduced a bill that would allow the President to imprison an unlimited number of American citizens (as well as foreigners) indefinitely without trial. Known as The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, or S. 3081, the bill authorizes the President to deny a detainee a trial by jury simply by designating that person an enemy belligerent.
The bill, which has eight cosponsors, explicitly names U.S. citizens as among those who can be detained indefinitely without trial:
An individual, including a citizen of the United States, determined to be an unprivileged enemy belligerent ... may be detained without criminal charges and without trial for the duration of hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners in which the individual has engaged, or which the individual has purposely and materially supported, consistent with the law of war and any authorization for the use of military force provided by Congress pertaining to such hostilities. [Emphasis added.]
Note that the Bush administration once said that the so-called war on terror would last a generation or more, and the U.S. military has officially classified many former Guantanamo detainees, such as England's Tipton Three, as having returned to the battlefield for merely granting an interview for the movie The Road to Guantanamo. Another five innocent Uighur (Ethnic Turkish Muslims from China) detainees had been listed as having returned to the battlefield after their release because their lawyer had written an op-ed protesting their prolonged detention without trial after they had been mistakenly picked up by a greedy bounty hunter. Writing an opinion or speaking an opinion against the party in power in Washington can and already has made some people enemy belligerents.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
why doesn’t he just shut up and go away?
FUJM
I don’t think he knows what beligerence is.
So, Obama will then be able to designate conservatives as "enemy belligerents"! I guess he can then make the North Slope of Alaska USA's Siberia.
Enjoy your new home, Freepers!
This is so Unconstitutional I was looking to see if it was satire or not!
They say it is hard to write satire these days.....
This may be old news to some that don’t study history.
Who guards the guards?
Who watches the watchers?
We do. Every day.
Yes, indeedy. Right on.
Can you imagine this guy as our President? I shudder when I contemplate the fact that I actually sent him money. The McLame “family” is another “political family” ( not unlike the Kennedy’s, Buse’s, et.al.) that needs to go away. The damage this man has done is legion, and yet the moron Republicans in Arizona just keep re-electing him. Seemingly, our only hope for turnover in the Senate is old age, or young women! Oh well, I do see that we have seven who are retiring at the end of this term. If only Hatch and Lugar would also oblige so we could get a couple of appointments before the next election.
I hadn’t heard that one. Do you have a source for that?
Mike
Wheeler broke the story, and then was rebutted by another POW. This is the “rebuttal to the rebuttal”, but in any case you now know which Jack Wheeler. The original stuff is somewhere on there. Anyway, I was sceptical. Over time, I have become less sceptical.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3077/2/
I second that. The more he talks, the worse it gets.
Please... Take him away...
There is one difference: Republicans and conservatives would be getting the blame for McCain’s insanity...
“enemy belligerent “
That will soon mean any person who doesn’t think like a Democrat/Muslim/Communist, if it doesn’t already.
That’s the end of America the exceptional, land of the free and home of the brave. And the judges already say the police can just walk (or break) into your house and . . .
why post something that is a year old and not mention it? We usually mentionwhen we post something old.....
why post something that is a year old and not mention it? We usually mention when we post something old.....
Fascist pos .. this is last media pick for the GOP ..
wonder what they will serve up this time for us to make a choice between the lesser of two evils on ..
Shhsh. You are not supposed to interrupt the fun of the McCain Deranged.
The man is insane. There is simply no question about it.
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