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Topic started on 8-3-2010 @ 11:11 AM by Shark_Feeder

A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully


www.theatlantic.com
Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt?

A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity.
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reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:20 AM by FortAnthem
reply to post by Shark_Feeder



Whenever McCain attaches his name to a bill, you can be SURE it will be an attack upon your freedom.

First Campaign finance reform, last week it was a bill to regulate vitamins, forwarding the Codex Alimentarius agenda and now this.

I think this guy is a bigger threat to the American people than Obama ever was. To think, he was presented to the American people as the "conservative " option.



reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:27 AM by Shark_Feeder
reply to post by jam321



I really hope your right on this one, it seems like these sort of f***** up bills get passed in shorter and shorter time frames.

Heck they don't even read them anymore, I doubt McCain even truly wrote this! He is only the spokesperson.


reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:36 AM by Shark_Feeder
reply to post by wx4caster



Careful is this bill passes they could drag you off to gitmo and leave you to rot...

Note that the bill applies to suspicion as well as actual acts...welcome to 1984 only 26 or 27 years late.

This sucks!

[edit on 8-3-2010 by Shark_Feeder]



reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:38 AM by CanadianDream420
Originally posted by FortAnthem
reply to
post by Shark_Feeder



Whenever McCain attaches his name to a bill, you can be SURE it will be an attack upon your freedom.


I followed Mr. McCain quite well during his Campaign, and did a lot of background research, and I will strongly disagree with you here.

Not just because the man was shot down over Vietnam, or a POW that was tortures, and didn't relay once piece of information into whereabouts of American bases on their soil, but because he IS a man of honour who loves his country.

Meh... What do I know? I'm just a Canadian.

[edit on 8-3-2010 by CanadianDream420]


reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:40 AM by Shark_Feeder
reply to post by CanadianDream420



Past valor in the Vietnam war does not excuse corruption or unconstitutional acts some 40 years later.

If this law is passed it will will qualify as both IMHO.


reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:44 AM by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by CanadianDream420



Part of the problem with the political process in America today is it focuses on style (political personalities) over substance (the actual legislation and what it means).

Style is no indication of substance. Substance on the other hand is.

People need to slow down and examine substance and stop looking to style as the sole or chief determining factor in how they then view the political process and matters of substance.

It’s not about the individual politicians, their style, or personal appeal, its about the substance of the laws being passed and what is really in them and how it effects us.


reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 11:52 AM by kenton1234
reply to post by CanadianDream420


"Do you think if this bills passes they will systematically start to imprison American Citizens under false pretenses?"



They already are.


reply posted on 8-3-2010 @ 12:00 PM by wx4caster
reply to post by CanadianDream420



republicans are naming sara palin. not the tea party movement.

up until very recently the tea party was considered to be a measly fad that would surely go away once the recession ended. unfortunately for the fat and greedy, they continue to grow in both number and strength.

they are essenially leaderless, and it is sickening to see all these politicians trying to shoulder thier way to the trough trying to set themselves at the head of this promising movement.

i SERIOUSLY doubt that Mrs. Palin will be the leader. if anyone i would "like" to see ron paul, but most likely it will be a no-name never heard of person that has not been soured by politics.
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