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Post by avordvet on Dec 22, 2012 5:58:45 GMT -5
Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th AmendmentBy Conor Friedersdorf, Dec 20 2012, 6:00 AM ET It may seem like imprisoning an American citizen without charges or trial transgresses against the United States Constitution and basic norms of Western justice dating back to the Magna Carta. It may seem like reiterating the right to due process contained in the 5th Amendment would be uncontroversial. It may seem like a United States senator would be widely ridiculed for suggesting that American citizens can be imprisoned indefinitely without chargers or trial, and that if numerous U.S. senators took that position, the press would treat the issue with at least as much urgency as "the fiscal cliff" or the possibility of a new assault weapons bill or likely nominees for Cabinet posts. It may seem like the American citizens who vocally fret about the importance of adhering to the text of the Constitution would object as loudly as anyone to the prospect of indefinite detention. But it isn't so. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/scandal-alert-congress-is-quietly-abandoning-the-5th-amendment/266498/
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 22, 2012 8:07:32 GMT -5
And as we worry about the coming economic collapse the Marxist in chief plans on how to take away our ability to defend ourselves and lock up indefinitely any of those who would defy them. Sweet. Good thing he has promised never to use such over reaching powers... RESIST...
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Post by Cujo on Dec 22, 2012 8:44:44 GMT -5
ROTHFLMAO
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Post by smokeeater on Dec 22, 2012 12:36:26 GMT -5
Guess those fema camps are not such tin foil hat posts as we thought
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