Alex Breaks Down McCain & Lieberman’s “Enemy Belligerents” Bill on The Alex Jones Show


Dissenters To Be Detained As Enemy Belligerents? Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, March 8, 2010 Since the establishment media is convinced that tea party members, 9/11 truthers, libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, and basically anyone with a dissenting political opinion is a likely domestic terrorist, they should be celebrating the fact that a new bill would allow the government to detain such people as enemy belligerents indefinitely and without trial based on their suspected activity. The Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning, writes the Atlantics Marc Ambinder. The full bill can be read here (PDF). The bill does not distinguish between US citizens and non-citizens, and states that suspected belligerents who are considered a high-value detainee shall not be provided with a Miranda warning. A person is considered a high value detainee if they fulfil one of the following criteria. (1) poses a threat of an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the US or US facilities abroad; (2) poses a threat to US military