Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul ominously warned that the Military Commissions act officially allows for citizen concentration camp facilities.
"We might have to hope that our Supreme Court helps us out a little. The Court has been better than the executive branch and a heck of a lot better than the Congress, the President has been begging for all this authority and we've given the President everything he's asked for. Sometimes the people wake up too late. Right now we don't have concentration camps but the authority has been given so that concentration camps can come without the right of Habeas Corpus . If they can put you in a camp, what good is freedom of speech or what good is a gun? This is now part of the books, part of the law."
Section 802 is specifically aimed at US citizens and announces any federal crime as "domestic terrorism". Citizens can be held without a trial as "Enemy Combatants".
2006-11-13
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