Bush Tries New Law To Strip Americans Of Their Rights

In another attempt to strip away our rights in the name of security, the Bush administration is in the process of drafting law that would make anyone "they" deem to be connected to terror to be held indefinitely without counsel. Even though the Supreme Court rejected this and threw it out last month. Pretty soon they are going to have to draft legislation to remove "Land of the free, and the home of the brave" to "land of the followers, and the home of the castrated"!

(AP)According to the draft, the military would be allowed to detain all "enemy combatants" until hostilities cease. The bill defines enemy combatants as anyone "engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners who has committed an act that violates the law of war and this statute."

Legal experts said Friday that such language is dangerously broad and could authorize the military to detain indefinitely U.S. citizens who had only tenuous ties to terror networks like al Qaeda.

"That's the big question ... the definition of who can be detained," said Martin Lederman, a law professor at Georgetown University who posted a copy of the bill to a Web blog.

Scott L. Silliman, a retired Air Force Judge Advocate, said the broad definition of enemy combatants is alarming because a U.S. citizen loosely suspected of terror ties would lose access to a civilian court — and all the rights that come with it.