Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climb-down

"...Defense funding bill allows American citizens to be arrested as terrorists on home soil and held indefinitely without trial...Americans can be arrested on home soil and taken to Guantánamo Bay under a provision inserted into the bill that funds the US military...Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing. The legislation has also been strongly criticised by libertarians on the right angered at the stripping of individual rights for the duration of "a war that appears to have no end".

The law, contained in the defence authorisation bill that funds the US military, effectively extends the battlefield in the "war on terror" to the US and applies the established principle that combatants in any war are subject to military detention.

The legislation's supporters in Congress say it simply codifies existing practice, such as the indefinite detention of alleged terrorists at Guantánamo Bay. But the law's critics describe it as a draconian piece of legislation that extends the reach of detention without trial to include US citizens arrested in their own country..." Full text: Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climbdown

Related:

Law allows indefinite detention without trial

Flashback:

The Obama administration calls those who are have a "Christian identity" or who consider themselves "Constitution defenders" terrorists (Re 18:20-24).

See:

Joint Terrorism Task Force Guide

One World Government/Religion

Re 13:17

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Well, I suppose that's a little better than ordering them assassinated."

Oh I don't know: "Meet the Brossarts, a North Dakota family deemed so dangerous that the local sheriff needed unleashed an unmanned Predator drone to help bring them in..." story

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "I always did want to go to Cuba."

Until then, you could go to Miami--same thing.

Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climb-down