Thread: Bush seeks to extend Guantánamo procedures to American citizens
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Old 08-02-2006, 12:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by alias
“This language was crossed out, the newspaper said, and replaced by language giving the commissions authority to try anyone “engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners,” regardless of nationality".

All I can say to you unintelligable child is you better damn well behave yourself. As for me, I don't have to worry because I am not hostile to the USA or it's coalition partners.
Its extending it not to just alien 'hostiles' but to American citizens. Even if Americans are hostile to the United States, that doesn't somehow take away their rights to due process and habeas corpus.

“Engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners,” regardless of nationality" is very vague. That could mean the government could withold specific trial rights of American citizens simply because they had plans to bomb a federal building or something.

I can't believe you defend this blatant threat upon our freedoms and rights as American citizens.
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