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| Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, said she does not "believe there is support to go beyond" citizens and permanent legal residents for her Due Process Guarantee Act. |
Sen.
Dianne Feinstein said [on February 29] that her legislation to roll back
an antiterror law, which allows the military to indefinitely detain
people in the United States suspected of ties to al Qaeda or "associated
forces," would have to be limited to citizens and permanent legal
residents. Her bill, the Due Process Guarantee Act, ... would ensure
that the detainee portions of last year's National Defense Authorization
Act, or any declaration of war or congressional authorization to use
military force, would not allow the military to imprison without trial
citizens and green card holders living in the United States. Rep. John
Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove (Sacramento County) has introduced a companion
bill in the House. The detainee provisions of the law ... have
generated a rare combination of outrage from liberals and conservatives
who say it violates constitutional liberties and habeas corpus rights
that provide an individual redress to unlawful imprisonment by the
state. Civil liberties groups have argued that the
Constitution's Bill of Rights extends to all people, regardless of their
citizenship. Noncitizens include tourists, students and business
travelers as well as illegal immigrants. Feinstein said including
noncitizens in her bill is not politically feasible. Feinstein described
her bill as a follow-on to the 1971 Non-Detention Act, a response to
the Japanese internment that was signed by former President Richard
Nixon. The act bars imprisonment of citizens suspected of sabotage
without explicit congressional approval.
Note: The NDAA clearly violates the U.S. Bill of Rights,
which clearly states in the fifth amendment that no person shall be
held to answer for a crime "without due process of law," and in the
sixth amendment which states that "the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial." It is simply amazing that the American public
is not loudly protesting this breach of the constitution. READ MORE
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