For one Washington State lawmaker, indefinite detention is personal

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Do you really think the President will not indefinitely detain US citizens without due process? It has happened before.

From the article:

For most Americans, the debate over the indefinite detention provisions included in the National Defense Authorization Act plays out primarily as an academic exercise. The average Joe walking down Main Street U.S.A. simply doesn’t worry about armed government thugs snatching him up, throwing him in the back of a van and hauling him off to some camp somewhere.

But one Washington State senator plunged into the NDAA fray with much more than academic, political or rhetorical interest. For Senator Bob Hasegawa, indefinite detention without due process is personal.

His family lived it.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It authorized the secretary of war and the U.S. Army to create military zones “from which any or all persons may be excluded.” As a result, Hasegawa’s parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, along with their entire community, spent three years living in barrack shacks behind barbed wire and armed guards at Minidoka Internment Camp in southern Idaho, not knowing if or when they would get out.

Their crime?

Japanese ancestry.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/09/fo...#ixzz2KfSPFEFX
Old news. Even older was the reservations for American natives.
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Then it is possible for it to happen again, eh, Eva? Seems like you've picked up on a trend.
COG is trending detention.