Thread: ACLU: US Military Authorized to Indefinitely Detain Americans Without Charge or Trial

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943

This view is accross the board..Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Constitutional law experts, Senator Levin, Senator Graham, Senator Mccain, President Obama himself, and so on. The information on this issue is very accessible for anyone who wants to find it.

ACLU: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window

UPDATE I:: Don’t be confused by anyone claiming that the indefinite detention legislation does not apply to American citizens. It does. There is an exemption for American citizens from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032 of the bill), but no exemption for American citizens from the authorization to use the military to indefinitely detain people without charge or trial (section 1031 of the bill). So, the result is that, under the bill, the military has the power to indefinitely imprison American citizens, but it does not have to use its power unless ordered to do so.

But you don’t have to believe us. Instead, read what one of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Lindsey Graham said about it on the Senate floor: “1031, the statement of authority to detain, does apply to American citizens and it designates the world as the battlefield, including the homeland.”

There you have it — indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial. And the Senate is likely to vote on it Monday or Tuesday.

ACLU: A Slick Trick on the NDAA and Indefinite Detention; Don't Be Fooled!

It looks like there is slick little trick brewing in Congress. Supporters of locking people up without charge or trial are getting ready to play yet another trick on the American people.

Its laughable that it's on this issue that the right-wing neoconservatives decide to cooperate with President Obama.

they did that to a whole race of japanese people who were americans during those days.

This whole "innocent until proven guilty" is really quite a sham.

Our judicial system is a fat, slow and inefficient system that is filled with intellectuals who think "they" can do it better than you!

Where are the studies to see what is the best way to "judicially" run things? To whom does the supreme court answer to? We The People? Right....