America can now indefinitely hold US citizens without trial....scary!

[Gandalf]

Must we permit the US military to detain Americans without trial? | Seema Jilani | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

It seems that the National Defense Authorisation Act discussed in the article above has been passed. Congress has passed the bill and America is now a state that can lock up it's own citizens without trial and if recent precedent is anything to go by, can and will, use torture in order to punish them too.

It's scary to think that America and Iran share more in common than many would like to think. There is no longer any pretense at being just, this act shows America for being the fascistic, tyrannical state which it is.

With recent attempts to control the Internet, police brutality inflicted upon OWS protestors, the groping hands of the TSA, the Wall Street bailouts, the imperialist wars, the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, bought elections and now this....can anyone really say that America is a free country?

Free to do what? Eat a lot? So my poser of the day. Has America become the totalitarian police state that I have long been suggesting?

[Gandalf]

Stop the press....

Obama himself is clearly a tyrannical fascist as he wanted to incarcerate US citizens, but that bit was finally dropped after a bit of a tussle. Apparently they are not going to incarcerate US citizens.

Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations' - Yahoo! News

That news has kind of spoiled my thread really and the title is quite wrong, though obviously that was their original intention. At the least, it shows that the powers that be are fascistic and will stop at nothing to get what they want. However, there are seemingly a few checks still in place. Still, it is all extremely scary.

[Gandalf]

What a crap thread. I am happy that US citizens are not going to be detained, but it has totally wasted a thread. Fuck you Obama.

[Kev]

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Fucking brilliant!

[:::PSL:::]

The only thing l dislike about America is eminent domain.

[Gandalf]

Feel free to mock me, I suppose it is called for. Can we not delete this thread before Lyle gets here?

[Gandalf]

And I cannot believe everyone is voting no. I am sure people just vote the opposite of what I think just for kicks. Everyone who votes no should be incarcerated indefinitely. When I am the global fascist leader all those naysayers will be for it. I will have heads in baskets which in turn will be handed out like apples to the poor yearning masses.

[CFH]

Feel free to mock me, I suppose it is called for. Can we not delete this thread before Lyle gets here?

Do you want it deleted?

[Gandalf]

I was told about the bill being passed, but was not aware of the amendments that were made at the end. It would make good sense to delete the thread, but that would be fascistic too and I can't just go around having threads deleted. It should stay and that way people will be able to regard me as somewhat democratic and open to free speech no matter how inaccurate it might have been. I look a bit of a ninny, but I'm okay with that.

[Ghost]

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[ruthless rocco]

miles is a douche.

[Gandalf]

miles is a douche.

Shouldn't you be posting music videos?

Anyway, better to be a douche than be Barrack Obama. I'm sure even Lyle will agree with that. Actually Obama is a big old douche himself. A nasty and murdering piece of work. I may be a lot of things, but I certainly don't have people killed.

[Andre]

Dont worry Miles,they dont have to pass this bill,they can detain you and do what they want if they say you are a suspected terrorist no one but your family will care.

They rip suspects off the streets in other countries now, Germany and Spain for two, fly them secretly into Poland or Chec and do it all there. They pay for the facility to escape from un laws instead of doing all the hard work at home,when they get the admission they take them to American soil. Its pretty well documented with private plane flight numbers and times matching detainees claims to the hour of the night of the dates they were abducted off the streets to where they landed. Documented by amature flight wathers both ends (who dont even have a direct interest (they just got some weird hobby of charting all flights in and out of little places.)

[Gandalf]

Dont worry Miles,they dont have to pass this bill,they can detain you and do what they want if they say you are a suspected terrorist no one but your family will care.

They rip suspects off the streets in other countries now, Germany and Spain for two, fly them secretly into Poland or Chec and do it all there. They pay for the facility to escape from un laws instead of doing all the hard work at home,when they get the admission they take them to American soil. Its pretty well documented with private plane flight numbers and times matching detainees claims to the hour of the night of the dates they were abducted off the streets to where they landed. Documented by amature flight wathers both ends (who dont even have a direct interest (they just got some weird hobby of charting all flights in and out of little places.)

True, rendition and torture are pretty well documented. In this instance I just found it very interesting how they were finally going to go after US citizens and have it as official policy. An open policy of tyranny was something that I found particularly astonishing.

As I say, I am extremely glad that the bill was amended, but the warning flags about Obama are all there and even in its so called watered down version the bill is still vague and extremely dangerous.

Guantanamo is open and is not going to be closed down. Nobody has a clue what those people are supposed to be doing there. Just because US citizens are off the hook, non-US citizens are still being detained with no sign of any trial in sight. The entire thing is a farce.

[Gandalf]

This blog documents the evolution of the bill. Absolutely terrifying and even letting American's get away without indefinite detention is still tyranny. What gives the US the right to detain anyone indefinitely with no trial?

NDAA | American Civil Liberties Union » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union

I'm surprised that everyone is voting that America has not become a tyrannical state. I mean, at the very least it is becoming one.