Comments on: Obama: Suspected Terrorists Shouldn’t Be Informed of Their Miranda Rights

By: keeperofthefire

keeperofthefire — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:41:28 +0000

anyone who still believes polititions/military/cops/courts believe in or follow the bill of rights/constution has been asleep at the wheel the last 100yrs!!!!!!!!!! the american people have chosen not to stand up to the theifs&liers who have run this country into the ground,while imprisioning more of its citizens than the whole world combined,and while murdering millions of poeple world wide for f'ing money!!!!!!! fuck this piece of shit country!!!!!

By: GreenOrb

GreenOrb — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:33:32 +0000

“republican” on one side, “democrat” on the other….
two wings attached to the same beast, working in concert.
Its prey , is us.

By: veganlove

veganlove — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:29:57 +0000

Right; while I was reading this, I was thinking – my God, let's just throw the whole damned Constitution out the window! What a load of sh*t this is. I cannot take this anymore. What was it: Mc Davids attorney that said these guys can do whatever the f* they want? Yet another thing to make life 10 times worse for those in the A/R community being accused of terrorism.

By: omgsoy

omgsoy — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:49:23 +0000

that is one of the controversies with the MCA, is that on one part it specifically says “alien” but on another part it doesn't. i firmly believe it was designed to be extended to citizens as well, and if any citizen ever challenged it that provision was put in there to ensure they had no legal leg to stand on.

By: lisaliberationnow

lisaliberationnow — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:35:15 +0000

So that means if I am arrested for being a suspected terrorist, I won't be read my miranda rights? The bill says even U.S. Citizens, so yes that means us. I think most of us know our rights anyways and would never talk under any circumstances. ( I hope we do!) Why don't we just tear the bill of rights to pieces, that's what they are doing anyways.

By: Will Potter

Will Potter — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:52:15 +0000

That's a great point to bring up. One important difference in the scope of the Military Commissions Act is that it spells out that is is for “alien” enemy combatants, which is defined as non-citizen. This proposal (which, I don't believe, has been submitted as legislation… it's just talk) would include U.S. citizens (because the Times Square attempt was by a citizen).

By: Kenxvx

Kenxvx — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:01:24 +0000

What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

By: omgsoy

omgsoy — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:56:54 +0000

Will, you're the expert here, but when Bush signed the Military Commissions Act in october of 2006 (which applies to all US citizens) he suspended habeas corpus. (and yes, that was unconstitutional, but the supreme court wouldn't hear it.) basically, as i understand it, all Obama is doing is making it so that terrorist suspects aren't going to be informed of rights they don't have under the MCA.