This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a "battleground" upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity.
It's being called the most traitorous act ever witnessed in the Senate, and the language of the bill is cleverly designed to make you think it doesn't apply to Americans, but toward the end of the bill it essentially says it can apply to Americans "if we want it to."
...the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”
Americans need to stand up fast to this one I am thinking!
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4 Responses:
Wow,
That's mindblowing to say the least. I hope complacency doesn't allow this to stand, the implications are just astounding.
Kind Regards
Belinda
I'm with you Belinda, if they miss the boat on this one the ramifications could be horrendous.
I think it's pretty safe to say that not only did they miss the boat, they weren't even away that it was leaving. Maybe we should start referring to the US as the New Third Reich or maybe the Fourth. The scary thing is that this kind of mentality could spread to other countries, like us.
Nev I think it will in some form. As always history repeats itself, where there are shortages of any description the powerful get going, and that generally means the little man is ruled with an iron fist.
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