the guvmint gonna get us!

So 93 out of 100 Senators just decided to approve a bill which would allow the indefinite detainment of American citizens without trial and authorize the US military to operate on American soil

Discuss.

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You know, one of the things I thought would be OK about Obama being president, is I thought, "Well, at least Obama will restore habeous corpus to non-US citizens." And then he refused to do it, the spineless bastard.

When I go ranting to my family about this shit, they seem to have absolutely no clue as to why habeous corpus for "other people" matters. Well, I think I'm going to send them a link to this, and say, "This is why it matters."

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Worse yet, this particular bill applies even to American citizens. The Udall Amendment, which would have at least protected citizens, was rejected 38-60.

This is one of the best editorials I've read in a long time.

	TrueFlog wrote:
	This is one of the best editorials I've read in a long time.

Relevant

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	TrueFlog wrote:
	This is one of the best editorials I've read in a long time.

They're two separate issues. Bloomberg is posturing like he always does, and like most reactionary anti-gun people do whenever a gun tragedy happens. I get that the article writer doesn't like how thuggish the police can be, he just picked a weird thing to juxtapose it with.

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If cops go on strike, citizens would find their guns put to use more than they'd care to. I can't imagine it would encourage them to relinquish them.

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Yes, a big role of guns is to fill in the void the lack of an officer presents.

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	TaboriHK wrote:
	Yes, a big role of guns is to fill in the void the lack of an officer presents.

Especially when lag is involved.

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