Indefinite Detention | Battlefield Earth
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Someone asked a social network today: "How's that any different than the way things are now??? We're allegedly all "innocent until proven guilty" but because people have the burden to prove their innocence, it's more like "guilty until proven innocent". So like I said, what's changed???
To which i replied: What's changed is they are now authorized to use the US military as a domestic police force. (which cancels Posse Comitatus, something that has been protecting US citizens since 1878). The US is now considered a "battleground" in the war on terror. They can now detain you (a US citizen) indefinitely without charge or trial, i.e Abu Ghraib you). And, because the President already has the authority to directly order assassinations in the "war on terror," he can execute you—all without trial. That's what's changed, over a century of constitutional law.