Sucking Liberty Dry

Bush & Co. aren't even trying to hide the fact that they're facists bent on world domination. The only democracy they care about is their own vision of it -- which generally means rich white guys getting richer while the rest of us pay the bill and "ferriners" die in wars that the US is funding and trying to escalate. Forget the fact that the bloodsuckers in DC are trying to get Israel to invade Syria now. Let's stick closer to home and examine the new legislation that King George II is trying to put through before his GOP cronies get kicked out on their asses.

They're call it a "terror detainee bill" but the ambiguity of what constitutes "terror" is what is at issue here. Because ladies and gents, according to this one, it might as well be you or me.

WASHINGTON - U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill...

According to the draft, the military would be allowed to detain all "enemy combatants" until hostilities cease. The bill defines enemy combatants as anyone "engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners who has committed an act that violates the law of war and this statute."

Legal experts said Friday that such language is dangerously broad and could authorize the military to detain indefinitely U.S. citizens who had only tenuous ties to terror networks like al Qaeda.

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