"A declaration of WAR against the American People"

[Ed Jewett]

http://www.zombiesoup.net/2011/12/declar...rican.html Friday, December 2, 2011

A declaration of WAR against the American People

In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief,the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America.
This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a "battleground" upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity.
It's being called the most traitorous act ever witnessed in the Senate, and the language of the bill is cleverly designed to make us think it doesn't apply to Americans, but toward the end of the bill it essentially says it can apply to Americans "if we want it to."The most disputed provision would require the government to place into military custody any suspected member of Al Qaeda or one of its allies connected to a plot against the United States or its allies. [B]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. Al-Qaeda has never been defined, it has always been a bogeyman so arrests will be just as[/B]opaque and bogus!
Even WIRED magazine was outraged at this bill, reporting:
...the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn't limited to foreigners. It's confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas' Robert Chesney a nonpartisan authority on military detention "U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority."http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/senate-military-detention/
The passage of this law is nothing less than an outright [B]declaration of WAR against the American People by the military-connected power elite. If this is signed into law, it will shred the remaining tenants of the Bill of Rights and unleash upon America a total military dictatorship, complete with secret arrests, secret prisons, unlawful interrogations, indefinite detainment without ever being charged with a crime, the torture of Americans and even the "legitimate assassination" of U.S. citizens on right here on American soil!
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