Guantanamo could be for you.
I can't imagine that this "plan" would pass with these provisions, but take a look at the authority the White House wants to claim.
The article makes the point that this proposed legislation, in effect, attempts to pass previous administration practices into law. To me, it simply details all the abrogations of rights already committed.
A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
The article makes the point that this proposed legislation, in effect, attempts to pass previous administration practices into law. To me, it simply details all the abrogations of rights already committed.
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No, I think we're all going to the FEMA camps being built by KBR.
By Lew Scannon, at 7:47 PM
Supposedly, there's one up in N. Texas somewhere. It's for immigrants. Riiiggghhhttt.
By mikevotes, at 8:37 PM
I can hear the international condemnation already.
Mind you, Australia is talking about putting illegals in to floating prisons, presumably from the mothball fleet.
By Cartledge, at 9:11 PM
Okay, I don't get it. It's my impression that Australia has lots and lots of empty land, so why floating prisons?
Mike
By mikevotes, at 9:22 PM
OMG, Cartledge - I thought that it was us POMS who came up with the idea of the 'hulks', where we put our undesirables before transporting them to Oz for the term of their natural :) Where's Charles Dickens when you need him?
By Anonymous, at 9:51 PM
Mike, if you allow them to enter land, empty or otherwise, they are subject to Australian laws regarding the treatment of asylum seekers.
If you catch them before they are obviously in Australian territory you just bung them into an old hulk and think things over for a few years.
It's a matter of keeping them off Australian soil mainly.
It's bloody barbaric and makes me feel even more ashamed of my country. That is PM Howard's doing and the sooner he is gone the better.
By Cartledge, at 11:04 PM
Ah, I didn't understand.
By mikevotes, at 7:06 AM
It's a very short step from this abominable proposition to concentration camps inside the US. Did we learn nothing from WWII and Vietnam?
Why does this current administration want endless conflict?
By Anonymous, at 1:53 PM
I don't think in the current climate this will pass in this form, but you're definitely right in that the administration is trying to lay the framework.
Mike
By mikevotes, at 2:33 PM
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