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Default Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial

Home Guy wrote:

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If enacted, sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA would:

(1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely
imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked
up inside and outside the United States;

(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise
be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within
the United States itself; and

(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial,
investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and
responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
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When taken together, all 3 of the above is exactly what you need if you
wanted to replicate the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within the
United States - including the stripping of the jurisdiction of the
federal courts from said facility.

This is really an acknowledgement that the powers-that-be don't really
want to close Guantanamo Bay. They just want to move it to US territory
but still keep it outside the reach of the judicial system.

Sort of like how the situation is now at airports. Your rights are
stripped from you and the courts are unsure of their jurisdiction.