if you all dont know H.R.6166/SB 3930 was passed.. this means we could be really ****ed if the gov't wanted to abuse this.. let me break it down for you.... i suggest you read this..



* It revokes habeas corpus (the right to a trial).
* It creates a secret committee appointed by Bush and Rumsfeld that has the power to declare ANY person - even a US citizen - to be an ?illegal enemy combatant,? instantly depriving them of their legal rights, with no appeal allowed.
* It allows the police to search through your home without a search warrant.
* It ends all protection of prisoners-of-war under the Geneva Conventions.
* It gives George W. Bush amnesty for any war crimes he has committed.
* It allows for American citizens to be put on trial in front of a military tribunal even if they aren?t in any military and have not engaged in military
attacks against the USA.
* It allows the government to convict people of crimes on the basis of secret
evidence that the accused is not allowed to see.
* It makes it legal for the government to use testimony extracted through torture.
* It ends the legal right to be protected from forced self-incrimination.
* It allows the government to imprison U.S. citizens without telling them what crimes they are being charged with.
* It removes the right to cross-examine witnesses.
* It allows for the records of trials to be kept secret from the American public.
* It enables trials to begin even before an investigation of the alleged crime has taken place.
* It removes the right to a speedy trial, allowing U.S. citizens to sit in prison
for years without being charged of any crime.

we are now a dictatorship.

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.

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."
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`Sec. 948a. Definitions

`In this chapter:

`(1) UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT- (A) The term `unlawful enemy combatant' means--

`(i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces); or

`(ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense.

here it states "A PERSON" meaning anyone...

S.3930
Military Commissions Act of 2006 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate)

SEC. 10. DETENTION COVERED BY REVIEW OF DECISIONS OF COMBATANT STATUS REVIEW TRIBUNALS OF PROPRIETY OF DETENTION.

Section 1005(e)(2)(B)(i) of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (title X of Public Law 109-148; 119 Stat. 2742; 10 U.S.C. 801 note) is amended by striking `the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba' and inserting `the United States'.

Passed the Senate September 28, 2006.

Attest:

Secretary.

109th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 3930

AN ACT

To authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.