[Peace-discuss] While you weren't looking -- S. 3801

[Robert Naiman]

I never expected you to become a Karl Rove apologist, Karl.


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Gotta be Karl Rove's fault...
>
> Karen Capel wrote:
>>
>> S. 3801 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3081
>>
>> One resource: http://www.nolanchart.com/article7511.html [...]Now there is
>> JihadJane, JihadJamie and a myriad of other American citizens being
>> brought
>> to the vanguard of mainstream media. You can do five minutes of research
>> and
>> see how most of these people are mentally diminished fruit cakes who
>> couldn't
>> blow up an ant bed in their front yard, much less pose any threat
>> whatsoever
>> to the American people. But the media and the government do not care about
>> these facts. They use these "domestic terrorists" to incite irrational
>> fear
>> in the populace in order to pass legislation detrimental to the
>> Constitution,
>> such as the "Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution
>> Act
>> of 2010" as currently proposed by Senators McCain and Lieberman. This is
>> the
>> most daunting piece of legislation that this country has ever seen. It
>> removes the right to a trial for American Citizens and gives the
>> government
>> the authority to detain American Citizens indefinitely for "suspected
>> terrorist activity." The legislation states that any citizen could be an
>> "Enemy Belligerent" if you are of "potential intelligence value" or in
>> "matters as the President considers appropriate." WHAT??!! How chilling is
>> that? The President can deem anyone he wants to as an Enemy Belligerent
>> and
>> have them "detained" with no rights, no trial, indefinitely. [...]
>>
>> Nice, huh?
>>
>> Karen
>>
>>
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