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H.R.6166 Military Commissions Act of 2006
The Military Commissions Act is the governments further enactment of
U.S. Concentration Camps that parallel Hitler's and Stalin's camps,
except these camps are for U.S. citizens.
The bill allows U.S. citizens to be targeted as terrorists, kidnapped
and stripped of all legal rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.
Top legal scholars have expressed their shock at the scope of the
so-called "compromise" legislation. To top it off, the media touted it
as a 'defeat' for Bush. How Orwellian..
Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "The
compromise legislation .... authorizes the president to seize American
citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United
States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial
by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of
Rights."
Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explains : "this [subsection
(ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the
Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever
criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is
concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to
'hostilities' at all."
The bill also contains a definition of "wrongfully aiding the enemy"
which labels all American citizens who breach their "allegiance" to
President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject
to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military
tribunal.
The bill also formalized:
- State sponsored torture, including allowing the sexual torture
of children in the presence of their parents. (Including
specifically crushing and/or electrocuting the genitalia of children
in attempts to extricate coerced and untrue testimony from their
watching parents).
- Designating a U.S. Citizen an "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" (which
would make them potentially vulnerable to experience the above).
- Arresting "Unlawful Enemy Combatants" (AMERICANS) in the middle
of the night, never charging them, never allowing access to an
attorney and denying them every Constitutionally protected right -
in effect slicing the throat of Habeas Corpus (Due Process), the
backbone of democracy since the Magna Carta.
- Making legal every illegal thing this Administration has done
over the last 3 1/2 years in the name of the "War on Terror"
(fear-mongering for profit), including illegally spying on Americans
and advocating and approving torture in violation of the Geneva
Conventions.
H.R.6166 Military Commissions Act of 2006,
Roll Call Vote,
S 3930 Military Commissions Act of 2006,
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