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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All

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From: Sawdusty9/28/2006 6:10:27 PM
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Below is some of the policies of the government that I reluctantly say, OUR, prime minister supports:

The White House Warden
Congress may give the president the power to lock up almost anyone he thinks is a terror threat.

latimes.com

Excerpt:

"BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."
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