Is your daughter a future detainee

[brettdale]

Is your daughter a future detainee

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609300002

Is your daughter a future detainee? What the media didn't tell you about the new anti-terror bill or Bush's power grab

The Senate just passed by a vote of 65-34 a bill that, among other things, allows the president to imprison forever, without trial, your neighbor's son -- a lawful permanent resident in the United States -- for emailing his Muslim roommate who went home to visit his family. Your daughter who organizes a protest at the Pentagon that gets a little more attention than the president thinks it should could become a detainee, held indefinitely. The bill says generally what activities qualify one as an "unlawful enemy combatant" subject to detention, but if the government can postpone that review indefinitely, who's going to tell the president that detention is illegal?

Think we're exaggerating? Think the bill goes after only terrorists or people who support them? Think again. The president is expected to sign it imminently. If you just read news reports, you won't have any idea how far this bill goes. Read it. Yes, it's too late to do anything, aside from letting your representatives know what they have done. They and the media have failed you. Read it.

[gkdmaths]

1. Oh, wtf?

I work at a university that is more than known for its ultraliberalism and outspoken student population and demonstrations (http://www.evergreen.edu)

Perhaps the student body will be forcefuly depleted by speeding convoys of jet-black SUVs - but I guess then we'd have WTO-scale riots.

that would suck.