Senate OKs Gov't to Keep US Citizens in Military Custody, Indefinitely and Without Trial

30 Nov 2011

Defying the Obama administration's threat of a veto, the Senate on Tuesday voted to increase the role of the military in imprisoning suspected members of 'Al Qaeda' and its allies -- including people arrested inside the United States. By a vote of 61 to 37, the Senate turned back an effort to strip a major military bill of a set of disputed provisions affecting the handling of terrorism cases. The most disputed provision would require the government to place into military custody any suspected [without a trial or probable cause] member of Al Qaeda or one of its allies connected to a plot against the United States or its allies. [protesting against the government or its institutions certainly could be construed as an overt plot to take over the US government now couldnt it?]A related provision would create a federal statute saying the government has the legal authority to keep people suspected of terrorism in military custody, indefinitely and without trial.

It contains no exception for American citizens.


[Arming the Left: Is the time now? By Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003
As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what is shaping up into [is] a dictatorship, we will continue to be ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic, totalitarian government that we are up against...]


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