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RU Sirius analyzes media responses to the controversial security legislation signed into law last week by the White House.
Detention and Torture: Are We Still Free or Not?
Ten Zen Monkeys
October 23rd, 2006
Friday night, on Bill Maher’s Real Time, Maher indicated that, as the result of the so-called “Detainee” bill (aka the Military Commissions Act) passed by Congress on September 28th, we could all get tossed into prison indefinitely without recourse according to the whim of the President. Maher panelist Representative Barney Frank seemingly seconded Maher’s opinion. A September 30th New York Times article quoted Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale, as saying that the bill “allows the administration to declare even a U.S. citizen an unlawful combatant subject to indefinite detention.”
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