This Act "permanently eliminates" Habeas Corpus (The right to ask why you are being imprisoned). Once you have been imprisoned and are not allowed to ask why, have you lost all of your other rights ?
The Bill of Rights
1. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble peaceably, freedom to petition the government.
2. The right of the people to keep and bear arms.
3. No soldier shall be quartered in any house without the owners permission.
4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
5. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime , unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury: Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
6. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
7. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.
8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
9. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Olbermann on the Murder of Habeas Corpus
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xUzUljH8EHU
The Bill of Rights
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm
Military Commissions Act 2006—Unchecked Powers?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11095
2006-11-06
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