The “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and
Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph
Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, “sets 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
custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided
with a Miranda warning,” writes
the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder.
The full bill can be read
here (PDF).
The bill does not distinguish between U.S. citizens and
non-citizens, and states that “suspected belligerents” who are
“considered a “high-value detainee” shall not be provided with a Miranda
warning.”
A person is considered a “high value detainee” if they
fulfil one of the following criteria.
(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 personnel or U.S. military facilities; (3)
potential intelligence value; (4) is a member of al Qaeda or a
terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda or (5) such other matters as
the President considers appropriate.
Now that the Southern
Poverty Law Center and the federal government, via
the MIAC report and innumerable other leaked documents, now
consider virtually anyone with a dissenting opinion against the state
as “posing a threat,” millions of peaceful American citizens could be
swept up by this frightening dragnet of tyranny.
Check out this video... Gods Bless Orwell for warning us. Lets see if we do something in time.
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