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McCain Proposes Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Citizens
new american ^ | 4/18/2010 | Thomas R. Eddlem

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.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator

To: Nachum

why doesn’t he just shut up and go away?


42 posted on 05/15/2011 11:00:27 AM PDT by wny
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To: Nachum

FUJM

I don’t think he knows what beligerence is.


43 posted on 05/15/2011 11:01:20 AM PDT by hattend (Obama is better than OJ... He found a killer while on the golf course.)
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To: 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.

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!


44 posted on 05/15/2011 11:03:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Nachum
So holding them indefinitely without trial is OK - but you had BETTER invoke the physical reaction to drowning on them while they sit there - imprisoned by a Government that doesn't recognize their natural right to a trial by jury of his peers.

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.....

45 posted on 05/15/2011 11:04:50 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

This may be old news to some that don’t study history.
Who guards the guards?
Who watches the watchers?
We do. Every day.


46 posted on 05/15/2011 11:05:53 AM PDT by glyptol
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To: MizSterious

Yes, indeedy. Right on.


47 posted on 05/15/2011 11:06:03 AM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: Califreak

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.


48 posted on 05/15/2011 11:07:02 AM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: Hardraade

I hadn’t heard that one. Do you have a source for that?


49 posted on 05/15/2011 11:23:40 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: Nachum
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean nothing to these idiots. The slippery slope of rationalizing the assault on our rights and liberties will ultimately end in a new country, the USSA!

Mike

50 posted on 05/15/2011 11:27:31 AM PDT by MichaelP (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
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To: Outlaw Woman

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/


51 posted on 05/15/2011 11:44:56 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Califreak

I second that. The more he talks, the worse it gets.


52 posted on 05/15/2011 11:47:09 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Nachum
As the detainment of citizens on no basis is distinctly UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and as this man is a SWORN representative of the US Constitution, I point out that this man McCain is committing Treason and therefore is an Enemy Belligerent. Because of this, I feel he should be the first and last to fall under this ruling.

Please... Take him away...

53 posted on 05/15/2011 12:07:10 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: MizSterious

There is one difference: Republicans and conservatives would be getting the blame for McCain’s insanity...


54 posted on 05/15/2011 12:20:36 PM PDT by piytar (Obama opposed every tool used to get Osama. So of course he gets the credit. /hurl)
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To: Nachum

“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 . . .


55 posted on 05/15/2011 2:26:44 PM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: Nachum

why post something that is a year old and not mention it? We usually mentionwhen we post something old.....


56 posted on 05/15/2011 3:29:01 PM PDT by stockpirate (Republicans that vote for socialism, support socialists are socialists.)
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To: Nachum

why post something that is a year old and not mention it? We usually mention when we post something old.....


57 posted on 05/15/2011 3:29:10 PM PDT by stockpirate (Republicans that vote for socialism, support socialists are socialists.)
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To: Nachum

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 ..


58 posted on 05/15/2011 5:19:56 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: dirtboy
Just as a heads-up, this was introduced last year and died an early death.

Shhsh. You are not supposed to interrupt the fun of the McCain Deranged.

59 posted on 05/15/2011 5:53:49 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Nachum

The man is insane. There is simply no question about it.


60 posted on 05/15/2011 6:30:14 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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