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Are you a suspected terrorist (according to the government)

Asked by incendiary_dan (13401points) December 10th, 2011

The new security bill that just passed last week (National Defense Authorization Act) contains provisions that allow the military to arrest or kill anyone, anywhere, so long as they’re designated as a suspected terrorist. Yes, even if you’re a U.S. citizen. Arrests could be without trial, warning, or even telling anyone where you go.

The standards in this new Orwellian bill for identifying potential terrorists are things like having more than 7 days of food in the house, owning weapons, missing fingers, homeschooling, and a slew of other things that, basically, aren’t what mainstream Americans do.

Luckily, it seems military leaders are disinterested in it, simply on the grounds that it will distract them. Barack has no problems with indefinite detention of citizens, but might veto it on other grounds.

P.S. Yes, I fit a lot of the criteria.

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