US Senate declares the entire USA to be a ”battleground”

[Superfreak04]

Originally Posted by devonin

Just read through the entire 21 page table of contents by heading, and there is not a single solitary thing in that bill that says anything like what your article is claiming.

It's pretty much entirely a budget and project appropriations bill identical in style and content to the same bill for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and so on back.

Yay sensationalism!

The absolute closest anything in there comes to being what that article is talking about, is in a section regarding Guantanamo Bay, that basically says that people arrested during the course of hostilities can be detained there, without making a specific exception for "But not American Citizens" where they -do- make that exception in regards to some other stuff in the bill.

Which means, at worst, that during something actually defined as military hostilities, there's the -possibility- of a legal backing for the military choosing to detain you there instead of in any of the many military prisons located inside the US. Oh dear, the world is ending.

Ah, I see. Oh well, I only posted this since it was blowing up all over Face Book, so I thought I'd share it with FFR to get peoples ideas on it.