Does this concerns you?

[Fish]

Does this concern people in the US? :hmm:

Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush's "unlawful enemy combatants." Americans are certain to be among them.

http://www.alternet.org/story/42458/





Edited:

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detenti...s20061017.html

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Fish

Does this concern people in the US? :hmm:

I'm not in the US but I am a US citizen.

The answer is no, since the article seems like nothing but hype, with no sources specified and no documented details.

Are these for illegal immigrants? What above the plans for more prison privatizations in the US? Is this part of that?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

I'm not in the US but I am a US citizen.

The answer is no, since the article seems like nothing but hype, with no sources specified and no documented details.

Are these for illegal immigrants? What above the plans for more prison privatizations in the US? Is this part of that?

I added a url:

"With his signature, President Bush enacts a law that is both unconstitutional and un-American. This president will be remembered as the one who undercut the hallmark of habeas in the name of the war on terror. Nothing separates America more from our enemies than our commitment to fairness and the rule of law, but the bill signed today is an historic break because it turns Guantánamo Bay and other U.S. facilities into legal no-man's-lands.
"The president can now - with the approval of Congress - indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions. Nothing could be further from the American values we all hold in our hearts than the Military Commissions Act."

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Fish

I added a url

Yes. From the ACLU. Now I'm even more convinced of the hype.

[SUBMAN1]

The ACLU is just a hype machine that succeeds in making people like you worry in an effort to make you take action - this in turn makes it easier for them to push ahead their agenda.

Don't beleive the hype. There is probably some truth - such as the facility is being built, but the rest is guaranteed blown way out of proportion.

I rank the ACLU about on the level of PETA (Otherwise known as the Animal Crackers). The FBI even rates them as a possible terrorist organization a while back and keeps them under survalience.

-S

[mog]

I'm pretty sure 'unlawful enemy combatants' are by definition not American. US citizens go through domestic courts; only foreigners end up in Guantanamo.