Indefinite Detention Bill signed into Law today.

[cybrsage]

I consider winning akin to us keeping our freedoms and liberties... oh wait...

Since there already is a Supreme Court ruling as precidence to prevent this law from being used against US Citizens (no ruling yet on US Persons who are not also citizens), you can rest assured that you will not be rounded up by Obama's brownshirts and carted away forever.

 

[Bowfinger]

Bump for SandEagle.

 

[OutHouse]

its sad that the major networks have not picked up on this story like they should have. why would congress and our president sign such a law into existence? are they scared of protest that we saw happen in the middle east last year?

whats the point of this law? its post 10 years since 9/11, We are out of Iraq, we are drawing down in Afghanistan. so what is the purpose of this law? who decides what is a belligerent act against the US?

 

[woolfe9999]

its sad that the major networks have not picked up on this story like they should have. why would congress and our president sign such a law into existence? are they scared of protest that we saw happen in the middle east last year?

whats the point of this law? its post 10 years since 9/11, We are out of Iraq, we are drawing down in Afghanistan. so what is the purpose of this law? who decides what is a belligerent act against the US?

The media did cover this. I read about it being signed on MSN, if memory serves. Also, this law adds nothing to existing law regarding the issue of detention. Whatever this Act authorizes is already permitted by SCOTUS precedent. That is the real trouble. In order for this sort of detention to not be allowed, we'd have to either amend the Constitution or else the SCOTUS will have to reverse itself. If the authority for this came only from this Act, it could simply be repealed.

 

[cybrsage]

The executive branch would have to go against a SCOTUS ruling if they wanted to keep a US Citizen indefinately detained without trial. They already ruled US Citizens can use the Writ of Habeus Corpus to force a trial.

They have not ruled yet on whether non-citizen US Persons can do it, nor non-citizen non US Persons.