And saying this law is nothing new is completely wrong : what it authorize now was forbidden but done illegally, so it's exactly like saying that given me ownership of your house is nothing new if I squatted it for a while. I thing I'll move at your place.
Except that isn't true. No forms of military detention previously forbidden have now been legalised.
Seriously. Name one.
I'm pretty sure some of the military detention practices of the last decade have been pretty damn illegal. They obfuscate the legality of the issue by moving prisoners around to keep them in a limbo where they're not technically detained, just being transported. Or they ship them off to other unscrupulous organizations or governments so that the detention and its conditions are not responsibility of the u.s. military. Or they simply classify them as enemy combatants, thus not having the same rights as normal prisoners.
No matter how you look at it, they've been kidnapping people off the street who are suspected of being somehow remotely related to or knowing something about a terrorist maybe (or children indoctrinated into terrorist activities in their early teens, as with many of the prisoners at guantanamo) and torturing and holding them indefinitely, while abusing technicalities or simply lying to get away with it. The nature of the thing is very illegal.
Now they're making it not only legal but
required to do this stuff to people. This is terrible news no matter how you look at it. This provision is without a doubt monstrous.
I do agree that it's unlikely to change anything
very much here on U.S. soil, even though I'm sure it will be abused and does represent one more step towards overt totalitarianism.
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