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<\/p>\nNew bill allows U.S. citizens to be kidnapped and detained without trial indefinitely based on \u201csuspected activity\u201d<\/p>\n
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Paul Joseph Watson<\/a> Since the establishment media<\/a> is convinced that tea party members, 9\/11<\/a> truthers, libertarians, Ron Paul<\/a> supporters, and basically anyone with a dissenting political opinion is a likely domestic terrorist, they should be celebrating the fact that a new bill would allow the government<\/a> to detain such people as \u201cenemy belligerents\u201d indefinitely and without trial based on their \u201csuspected activity\u201d.<\/p>\n The \u201cEnemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,\u201d introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, \u201csets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military<\/a> custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning,\u201d writes the Atlantic\u2019s Marc Ambinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n The full bill can be read here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n The bill does not distinguish between U.S. citizens and non-citizens, and states that \u201csuspected belligerents\u201d who are \u201cconsidered a \u201chigh-value detainee\u201d shall not be provided with a Miranda warning.\u201d<\/p>\n A person is considered a \u201chigh value detainee\u201d if they fulfil one of the following criteria.<\/p>\n (1) poses a threat of an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the U.S. or U.S. facilities abroad; (2) poses a threat to U.S. military<\/a> personnel or U.S. military<\/a> facilities; (3) potential intelligence value; (4) is a member of al Qaeda<\/a> or a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda<\/a> or (5) such other matters as the President considers appropriate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Now that the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a><\/a> and the federal government<\/a>, via the MIAC report <\/a>and innumerable other leaked documents, now consider virtually anyone with a dissenting opinion against the state as \u201cposing a threat,\u201d millions of peaceful American citizens could be swept up by this frightening dragnet of tyranny.<\/p>\n However, according to the bill, an individual doesn\u2019t even have to pose a threat to be snatched, detained and interrogated \u2013 they can merely be deemed to be of \u201cpotential intelligence value\u201d or come under the vague and sweeping mandate of \u201csuch other matters as the President considers appropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n This last designation hands Obama<\/a> dictator powers to have any American citizen kidnapped, detained, and interrogated on a whim.<\/p>\n The only proviso that even hints at some form of check or balance is the measure that states, \u201cThe High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team must make a preliminary determination whether the detainee is an unprivileged enemy belligerent within 48 hours of taking detainee into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team must submit its determination to the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General after consultation with the Director of National Intelligence<\/a>, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General make a final determination and report the determination to the President and the appropriate committees of Congress<\/a>. In the case of any disagreement between the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, the President will make the determination,\u201d states the bill.<\/p>\n The ACLU has expressed its vigorous opposition<\/a> to the legislation, labeling it nothing less than a \u201cdirect attack on the Constitution<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIndefinite detention flies in the face of American values and violates this country\u2019s commitment to the rule of law,\u201d states Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.<\/p>\n Of course, such positions from the ACLU as well as Amnesty International<\/a> will only be used as grist for the neo-con propaganda mill about how the bill ought to be passed in order to avoid being \u201csoft on terrorists,\u201d a piece of spin still being swallowed whole by millions of conservatives who are blissfully unaware of the fact that the apparatus of the war<\/a> on terror<\/a> is now being aimed squarely at politically active American citizens.<\/p>\n \u201cTorture<\/a>, indefinite imprisonment, secret trials and limited staged hearings are the stuff of cheap dictatorships,\u201d writes Ian McColgin. \u201cThey are the sort of idiocy we scorned in the Soviets, the Koreans and the Vietnamese. It is astonishing that we have senators and citizens even discussing this bill which is not a capitulation to terrorism<\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s the triumph of terrorism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at \u201csecurity events\u201d which purportedly reads \u201cmalintent\u201d on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. Perhaps the video<\/a> below explains just how \u201cenemy belligerents\u201d will be identified on American soil.<\/p>\n
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