Is the USA a dictatorship? - "Military Commissions Act" and the death of Habeas Corpus?

Question

Habeas Corpus has been suspended for American citizens...If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an "unlawful enemy combatant"(this is defined as anyone the US President considers unlawful), how will you get your trial without rights?...they no longer have to tell you why they are holding you. If you agressively yell at protest you will be arrested! Police allowed to torture you to organ failure!
So, what is the difference b/w the USA of today & Nazi Germany?

I'm not American, so therefore I don't actually care. Just wan't American opinions - it is a simple question, so try looking it up &/or your Bill Of Rights that have dissapeared before you answer with just jibes, attempted wit & sarcasm etc...

...forgot to mention, regarding the torture bit...your President also had a new law passed along with the above that is BACKDATED so as he or his cabinet never has to stand trial for any breaches of The Geneva Convention!...any thoughts on this?! people wrote that you don't have to worry if you've done nothing wrong! So why would he get this passed this if he's done nothing wrong?

Answer 1

...Agree with a few previous above: ...this government is more dangerous than what it's trying to protect. Regarding the paranoia comments, read:

* President John Adams - Insists The Alien Insidition Act was necessary yet he used it to jail newspaper columnists & editors;

* President Woodrow Wilson - Insists The Espionage Act was necessary yet uses it to jail 2000+ of his opposition public spkrs;

* President Roosevelt - Executive Order 9066 (mentioned above)- Insists it's needed yet jails 110,000+ Americans!!! in camps across America. The US army General justifies it by saying they are still Japanese!, given no reason why they held when released.

Yeah I can see the unmarked vans too, and Fidel hahaha...Bill of Rights are gone pretty much...open your eyes, all the points are all facts...You can be tortured & your confession be used!? wtf!

Harsh words to call it a dictatorship, but the people and Congress voted it in with a majority and no one cares. Hopefully it won't last.

Answer 2

everyone has so much wit...yet nobody reads anymore...people forget about the massive concentration camps in the USA during WW2 for thousands of innocent Japanese-looking American citizens...new laws were passed and people detained and put into these camps as they were considered a threat to the USA, & how exactly they were a threat no one knows or could justify, with all released after the war.

Yet no one learns from their mistakes 60 years+ later and people would rather make fun of facts than make a useful contribution.

Also, regarding democracy and voting...Bush still has 2 more years, and he still has veto power. Which means deals will be done with the opposition party so each can benefit. Also the opposition also voted(large majority) and gave him his despotic powers, so I would see this as one large political party disguised as two lol...

It's rather telling that the President managed to get the new law passed and the US war crimes will go unpunished.

Answer 3

Nazi Germany had a strangle-hold on their people. George Bush is trying to put a strangle-hold on the American people. Some people here are either just too stupid to realize that, or they mistakenly believe giving up our civil rights and liberties for the "greater good" is acceptable. Never realizing the greater good is putting them into a locked cage. This president has used the constitution to wipe his butt, and then throw the paper at the American people. America is not a dictatorship but every once in a while just for sh*ts and giggles some politicians try to make it into one by leading the herd to their slaughter. Thankfully we have elections.

Answer 4

Terrorist prisoners and POW's do no longer choose it,never had it and shuld no longer have it. they did no longer have it in WWI, WWII, Korea or Nam. they only had to get those new rules because of the fact a rather good variety of liberals have been attempting to offer away rights no person that could be a POW would desire to have. Thank God for persons with commom experience that are conserving united statesa. and not giving its enemies the considerable to the rustic

Answer 5

i don't know why muggles is so complacent. when the govt declares you have no right to defend yourself, you live in a dictatorship. however, aware americans knew this happened back when bush's free speech zones emerged.

hopefully the elections showed the american people that we still have a democracy within our reach, we only have to use it. but bush, cheney and their fellow lying, theiving, torturing, mass murdering gangsters didn't break this many laws to give up so easily.

maybe this will get muggles attention - the department of homeland security proposes a new rule change which will require the fed gov to APPROVE all travel out of the country BY CITIZENS.

So, the difference between us and Nazi Germany? the scale of the mass murder? the quickness of the disillusionment with our fool?

Answer 6

It is obvious you are not an American and that you are reading the US Constitution as many (sadly enough) of our own.
However the US Constitution allows us the right to Vote AGAINST what we do not believe in the interest of our Nation. If you have been watching? we just Voted !!! and we can vote again and again. Unlike most other nations, third World or not, we do not take up arms and start "killing" anyone who does not agree with us.
We are Americans. We are proud of that heritage. WE are not perfect. Yet your country? is not also.
We do not murder our politicians and our neighbors in the street as common practice, we do not call ourselves radicals/revolutionists/red armies/hammas or hallas or any other crap. We have and are what you and most of the World "covets" and wishes for. We are Americans ! We have the right to VOTE and make changes peacefully and effectively.

Answer 7

Hahahaha The United States Government , in my opinion is a Dictatorship disguised as a Democracy

Answer 8

"what is the difference b/w the USA of today & Nazi Germany?" one big difference is a much more highly developed security system involving NSA, Homeland Security, The Patriot Act, etc. surely you realize that NSA has scanned and recorded this page, and that your words here are going in "your permanent record."

haven't you noticed all the phone trucks parked around everywhere you go? are they watching you right now? i suggest lining your hat with aluminum foil so they can't read your thoughts with their brain-scanners.

Answer 9

Under the international standards of law within rational, libertarian, civilised countries there is a presumption of Innocence until proven guilty. Therefore ALL the detainees at gitmo and elsewhere are at this moment still innocent, as NONE of them have even been charged with a crime, let alone found guilty of one.

According to documents released under FOIA requests, the vast majority of the people that have been detainees at gitmo are innocent. There was never ANY evidence that they had any connection to, or did any action attributable to AL-Queda or any other terrorist group.

Now I know many dumb, mind-controlled, FOX news watching yanks believe that Gitmo has only ever held convicted terrorists, but this is NOT the case. they have many people who have been tortured into giving details of the various (non and imagined) terror-plots that have seen many people kidnapped and detained in terror raids, also to be tortured into confessions.

Several of the detainees are contacts or 'assets' of various western security services like MI5, or CIA. Often these people are used by one agency to gather information, or distribute literature in the hope of entrapment. These small clandestine groups are unknown to other sections within the security services and so will appear to be genuine terrorists, or terrorist sympathisers to these other sections as a classic case of "the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing"

There are a range of causes for such detentions ranging from conspiracy to c0ck-up.

For example, MI5 may recruit a local Muslim to infiltrate a Mosque, this individual may be handled by 1 agent and this knowledge may only be available to a small team within a compartmentalised structure within a single office within MI5.

The recruited muslim may need to travel to Pakistan or elsewhere to contact and get information on behalf of MI5, or to contact suspected terrorists (who may also be recruits from other intelligence agencies). Another intelligence group, working in similar, compartmented secure groups within CIA (for example) would have no clue that the muslim in question actually works for MI5 and is therefore not a 'real' terrorist, but is acting under orders for HMG.

The next thing this Muslim knows is, he is part of a sting operation, where HE becomes the patsy. he is hooded, shackled and flown to a detention centre to be torured by the CIA or a sub-contracted group, to extract a confession and to extract the names of other muslims who may be involved in terrorist activities. These named people are then watched, recruited or entrapped and the cycle continues.

This has happened on many many occasions. There are now, SO MANY secret compartmented groups from so many security agencies of so many countries trying to uncover and prevent terrorism, that it is impossible to know how much potential terrorism is real, and how much is a CIA/MI6/MI5/MOSSAD/ISI etc etc front group posing as terrorists to entrap possible, potential terrorists.

One thing IS clear. That is that the vast majority of terrorist detentions are of innocent people where no genuine evidence ot any genuine terrorist plotting has ever occured.

The majority of evidence is coming from insiders and patsies as this 'game' expands almost exponentially.

To answer the question, No the USA is not a dictatorship, but it has become as close to one as makes almost no difference.

the KEY difference is this, if enough American wake up (particularly democrats and republicans) and refuse to vote democrat or republican ever again THEN the USA can be saved.

At the moment both parties are invested in getting the current slide into totalitarianism to continue, as they both want to hold that ultimate power. They both serve only one master - the Federal Reserve Banks.

The Greate Republic as designed by the Founding Fathers does NOT exist anymore. it is GONE, DEAD, DESTROYED by the uncostitutional deals struck on Jeckyl Island back in 1913.

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Answer 10

There's none at all. I suggest you head for the nearest border and get to Canada, Mexico, or Cuba as fast as you can. Drop us a line to let us know you got there safely.