Are they laying grounds to declare Gitmo Attys as ENEMY COMBATANTS?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

Maybe even arrest them? They already arrested one of them. I wouldn't put it past them to press some trumped up charges on them.

I already posted this the other night - but after hearing Cornyn speaking about how the Gitmo Attorneys were interfering with them fighting Terra - it gave me the chills....


http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=zQrItml3Gv&Content=845
ATTORNEYS FOR GUANTANAMO DETAINEES COULD BE DETAINED AS ENEMY COMBATANTS UNDER NEW LEGISLATION

President Given Undue Power to Silence Critics
Synopsis

On September 26, 2006, attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) determined that what appears to be the final version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 could allow the government to detain the attorneys themselves as 'enemy combatants.' CCR Legal Director Bill Goodman said: "This ominously broad definition of enemy combatants would mean that almost anyone who actively opposes the President or the government could be locked up indefinitely. This bill makes a mockery of the rule of law."


The current version of the Military Commissions redefines an "unlawful enemy combatant" (UEC) so broadly that it could include anyone who organizes a march against the war in Iraq. The bill defines a UEC as "a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States" or anyone who "has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense of the United States." The definition makes no reference to citizenship and therefore could be read to include any number of individuals, including:

CCR attorneys and other habeas counsel, Federal Public Defenders and military defense counsel for detainees at Guantánamo Bay
Any person who has given $5 to a charity working with orphans in Afghanistan that turns out to be associated in some fashion with someone who may be a member of the Taliban
The bill also currently includes provisions so sweeping that they strip U.S. courts of jurisdiction over habeas petitions by any non-citizen detained by the government anywhere. Because there is no geographic limitation in the bill's language, it would allow the President to detain any non-citizen without their ever having the chance to challenge their detention in court: "No court... shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination." Examples of people who could be detained indefinitely with no access to a court include:

A foreign tourist wearing an anti-Bush t-shirt at the Statue of Liberty
A protester at an immigration rally who has lived in the U.S. since she was six months old and is a lawful, permanent resident
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren said: "This new version of the legislation grants the President frightening power to silence his critics. Habeas corpus is, like voting, one of the fundamental rights of democracy. The President's efforts to exercise the privilege of kings must be turned back, before the so-called 'war on terror' turns on our own citizens."

[Rose Siding]

1. Here's one who says he was already threatened-

British lawyer says US threatened him with Guantanamo internment
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2532034

[mmonk]

2. I believe Barbara Olshansky is on a list

for harassment whenever she or staff members fly. She has been handling habeus corpus litigation. Folks, we're heading from constitutional crisis to pretty much an established dictatorship. How do you plan to fight back? Depending on politicians that continually let you down and your rights be trampled?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. Depending on voters (and voting machines) that let our rights be trampled.

As long as the public and the media still supports them we're screwed. Also add to that the people who don't bother to vote or even care. The pols just go along with public opinion.

If you want to eneact social change you have to change the PEOPLES minds.

[mmonk]

5. Will a new system allow it? I guess we'll see.

[mike_c]

4. that's it folks-- America is gone....

We. Are. Lost.