"Obama Prepares to Authorize Indefinite Detention of US Citizens for First Time Since McCarthy Era"

[green917]

115. He's explained it to you several times

It does NOT explicitly say that citizens can be detained indefinitely, however, it does NOT explicitly say that they are excluded from said detention either. It simply states that there is no "requirement" to detain citizens and/or legal aliens as there is with foreign nationals. The bill is, at best, vague and open to interpretation by the current President and any future President we may have (including, God Forbid, 1 named Gingrich, Palin, or Bush).

The other point that should be made over and over again is that, regardless of how this bill deals with American citizens and lawful aliens, it still codifies into law, for the first time in 40 years, the indefinite detention of prisoners that our Government feels may be a threat with NO due process of law whatsoever. There is a finer point of Constitutional Law that President Obama, as a Constitutional scholar, should know better than anyone here does: Nowhere in the Bill of Rights does it say that those rights are only granted to citizens of these United States, the only designation is "people". The freedoms codified therein were meant to extend to anyone (other than slaves and women, of course) who should find themselves on our shores whether they be an American citizen or not.

This bill is an egregious assault on human rights and liberty and will further erode our moral standing in the World at large. Welcome to the United Banana Republic States....hope you don't become one of "los desapartecidos"!