Requiem for my country
Common Dreams
by Thea Paneth
10/04/06
The Military Commissions Act is totalitarian police-state legislation that has just been enacted by the U.S. Congress. It provides, among other things, that the President can decide U.S. citizens are enemy combatants. It strips foreign born enemy combatants of habeas corpus. Charges and evidence are secret and the person so termed can be held in secret and can even be executed in secret (through a 'presidential finding' signed on 9/17/01). There is no recourse. I don't think these laws are aimed at terrorists. I think they are aimed at political dissenters (peace activists?) and will be used accordingly. It must be noted that the media has omitted the crucial details related to U.S. citizens in their scanty coverage of this Act...
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1004-32.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Thea Paneth
10/04/06
The Military Commissions Act is totalitarian police-state legislation that has just been enacted by the U.S. Congress. It provides, among other things, that the President can decide U.S. citizens are enemy combatants. It strips foreign born enemy combatants of habeas corpus. Charges and evidence are secret and the person so termed can be held in secret and can even be executed in secret (through a 'presidential finding' signed on 9/17/01). There is no recourse. I don't think these laws are aimed at terrorists. I think they are aimed at political dissenters (peace activists?) and will be used accordingly. It must be noted that the media has omitted the crucial details related to U.S. citizens in their scanty coverage of this Act...
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1004-32.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 5. Okt, 16:31
