Read the article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101334.html
The administration wants special courts where you can't hear the evidence against you, can be tried without being there, aren't guaranteed a speedy trial, and can be detained indefinitely.
Also, the Secretary of Defense can ADD ANY CRIME AT WILL to get you under military jurisdiction, including, "hostile acts" (quite broad, no?)
So a reporter or a person can be picked up, sent to some jail and never be heard from again and if someone reports it, they can legally (if it passes, and it will) be also picked up.
Do you support this? And if you say, "it's to fight terrorism," this is the same language and actions that the Soviets and Saddam used, and we're going to do it now too? What happened to a fair trial? And if we have so much evidence on a person, then why does it have to be secret? For the Republicans, if Clinton did this, you'd be going insane.
2006-08-02 10:30:16 · 8 answers · asked by eskimo 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
It's not just jail. It's a jail where no one can visit and no one (your family friends) knows that you are there. Like the detainees at Guantanamo. And before you say that they are there because they are terrorists, if they haven't had a trial, how do you know that? Is the U.S. government perfect in that they never make mistakes?
2006-08-02 10:38:13 · update #1
This would be bad in any administration, just to be clear. If a Democrat did it, and I have no doubt they're crooked and power-hungry, I'd be pissed.
2006-08-02 10:42:15 · update #2
Hello 1984-style American Imperialist Police state. This calls for outright revolution. The government is becoming more and more oppressive. We have a duty under the Declaration of Independence to revolt and institute new government.
2006-08-02 11:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by eatmorec11h17no3 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt anyone with a sane and right mind would support such act and law. And i doubt anyone who cares for humanity would agree to such law either. But what can we do or many others that disagree than to protest. ANd our protests goes unheard and on deaf ears. Indeed such act puts the US government at the same level with Saddam's regime and the Soviets. Its some sort of a dictatorship regime the US government is becoming. That is what it has been trying to become since Sept 11th. For those who cares, could only watch in agony.
To the current government, they do not care about what we say when they have made up their mind. In fact, like they do all the time recently, they would force the law to be amended as long as it benefits them.
Whatever it is, it is just cruel and wrong and illegal, but soon enough they would make it legal.. and ppl like us who voices our opinion in public like that might face a chance of being prosecuted. So called democracy. Freedom of speech and expression. I believe that today in the US, freedom and democracy that we have been fighting for all these while has become more limited as time goes by as only freedom that doesnt clash or tarnish the image of the government can only be allowed. And to know that the US government would like to teach the rest of the world on democracy. I think one should start right back at home before teaching others what to do.
2006-08-02 17:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Syed A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do you think the patriot is? it is a total destruction of ALL constitutional rights, and COMPLETE and TOTAL, DICTATORSHIP, headed by-guess who?- GEORGE BUSH and the BUSH ADMINISATRATION. you can even be labeled a TERRORIST just for saying something the government doesn't like, or if you question the actions of the goverment. and congress passed it without much protest by anyone but a few democrats. ready to go to the local concentration camp?
2006-08-02 17:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by de bossy one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To apply these rules to American citizens would be intolerable and unconscionable, and I would vehemently object to such a thing.
Non-Americans caught acting against the United States are not entitled to all the same rights that citizens receive, but if we don't give them any at all, we're not much better than they are.
2006-08-02 17:52:14 · answer #4 · answered by Chris S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a direct violation of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. Why am I not surprised? After all, the Constitution is just a "damned piece of paper".
2006-08-02 17:44:45 · answer #5 · answered by john_stolworthy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll give the same legal rights to these folks you're so concerned about as the terrorists gave to that poor sucker whose throat was slit from ear to ear.
2006-08-02 17:45:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go to jail to protest a law that puts people in jail for protesting. How's that for circular?
2006-08-02 17:34:15 · answer #7 · answered by Maya M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
F**k Bush and his administration.
2006-08-02 17:39:58 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. October 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋