Very concerned with the 61-37 vote in the senate yesterday to allow domestic use of the military and very broad language that would allow indefinite military detention of Americans based on mere suspicion of terroism. Some of the young people in our camp are losing hope. They see the Occupy Movement as their last hope and the passage of this law as a very serious attack on dissent.
Senate OKs Gov’t to Keep US Citizens in Military Custody, Indefinitely and Without Trial 30
Nov 2011 The Senate on Tuesday voted to increase the role of the military in imprisoning suspected members of ‘Al Qaeda’ and its allies — including people arrested inside the United States. By a vote of 61 to 37, the Senate turned back an effort to strip a major military bill of a set of disputed provisions affecting the handling of terrorism cases. The most disputed provision would require the government to place into military custody any suspected member of Al Qaeda or one of its allies connected to a plot against the United States or its allies. A related provision would create a federal statute saying the government has the legal authority to keep people suspected of terrorism in military custody, indefinitely and without trial. It contains no exception for American citizens.
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