The Loss of Freedom: The military can now detain, even execute American Citizens without a fair trial
By designating any American Citizen an ‘enemy combatant’ - Bush/Cheney (via the military) can now detain and even execute citizens without a fair trial. They declare that this is a ‘war on terror’ and those they arrest are ‘prisoners of war’ and therefore don’t have the right to a fair trial.
from LewRockwell.com
If the Padilla doctrine is upheld, what protection do ordinary Americans have? Consider a newspaper editor, for example, whose editorials are consistently calling for an independent investigation into the torture and sex-abuse scandals at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. Suppose the Pentagon decided that those editorials were supporting terrorists, albeit indirectly. They send a squad of soldiers to pick up the editor and then transfer him to the same naval brig in South Carolina where they’re holding Padilla.
What could the editor do? The answer is, under the Padilla doctrine: Nothing…
Under the Padilla doctrine, there would be no check on the power of the military to take people into custody and punish them, even execute them.
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Have you seen the 9/11 ’scandal’ where they knew about Mohammed Atta and did nothing- this will be used as an excuse to take out Americans that have no criminal record, ‘we gotta get him before he blows up a city’.
and I just heard on NPR that terrorists can now make nuke bombs using their kitchen blender as a centrifuge. Booga Booga, “now let us haul away your quiet neighbors- they’re really closet terrorists brewing up homemade nukes.” BOO!
