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So Obama signed the National Defense Authorization act which allows the indefinite detention of citizen and non-citizens declared as terrorists of the united st
by elb0w 15y ago
So Obama signed the National Defense Authorization act which allows the indefinite detention of citizen and non-citizens declared as terrorists of the united states. Lamar Smith is pushing a bill that will require ISP's to store all information on U.S. Citizens that tie to an IP address. Now the FBI is saying you are a terrorist if you try to hide your ip. So now if you don't allow the government to capture all information about you from the internet you can declared a terrorist which in-turn will cause you to be held in jail indefinitely..... or im just paranoid.
- jrockway 15y agoyou can declared a terrorist which in-turn will cause you to be held in jail indefinitely It probably won't be you. By the time they'd come looking for you, these laws will have been laughed out of the Supreme Court and a few political careers will be dead forever.
- srl 15y ago> these laws will have been laughed out of the Supreme Court It makes me mighty uncomfortable how often we have to fall back on "because the supreme court" (or more generally, "because courts" - there are a lot of lower-level justices doing their jobs admirably, and they don't get nearly enough credit) to convince ourselves that we're not heading for a closed society. Eventually, someone will grab enough political capital to pull an Andrew Jackson and decide to just ignore and possibly arrest them - at which point we're absolutely screwed. We're at the point now where viable presidential candidates can openly admit that they don't believe the courts are worth obeying. It's time to start worrying.
- mrschwabe 15y agoNo, you're not paranoid - this is the new reality; the new America. And to clarify, you will have no trial and the jail you would be held at is at an undisclosed location.