Compelling U.S. Senate Debate
It is true, as many in and out of Congress have charged, that the U.S. Senate has held few vigorous debates on issues this year. But, this week, senators debating the defense bill have spent hours talking about the U.S. Constitution and how it would allow or prohibit detaining U.S. citizens as enemy combatants.
They are at it again now, Thursday morning, on C-SPAN2.
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It seems that American Citizens just lay down these days. Where is the uproar about our freedom and our rights? Americans have become very passive.I remember the times when Americans would rise up when their rights were threatened. If people don’t want to protect themselves then they deserve to lose their rights.
The Senate last night codified into law the power of the U.S. military to indefinitely detain an American citizen with no charge, no trial and no oversight whatsoever with the passage of S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act.
To his credit Coburn voted NO as he should have.
To his discredit the flacid loser Inofe voted yes.