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unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 11:32 PM Jan 2012

Indefinite military detension?

Since the president and the military seem to be the arbiters of who's worthy of indefinite military detention, how soon do you believe peaceful OWS protesters will be subjected to indefinite military detention? How would we know should this occur?

"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield."

http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/National%20Defense%20Authorization%20Act

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Indefinite military detension? (Original Post) unkachuck Jan 2012 OP
That's a good article Matariki Jan 2012 #1
Things continue to get worse. What is the next step? nm rhett o rick Jan 2012 #2

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
1. That's a good article
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 11:51 PM
Jan 2012

thanks for posting it.

"The ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war."

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