From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "Patriot" II
In fact, if the current administration had its way, the confidentially and quietly drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed Patriot Act II, would already be the supreme law of the land. Under this law, U.S. citizens acting as human shields in Iraq could be stripped of their U.S. citizenship, denied their Constitutional rights, be held indefinitely, and tried secretly as "enemy combatants" based on the allegedly treasonous "intent" of their actions as "aiding and abetting the enemy."
I have a question. Let's say that during WW2 US citizens would've decided that the war was a no-no and acted as "human shields" in Germany or Japan, ie. Given the cultural, social and political situation of the time, would the FDR/Truman administration have accused those citizens of treason as well?
JJ
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