Joe Lieberman is drafting legislation to strip the citizenship of American terror suspects in order to circumvent the constitution:
“I’m now putting together legislation to amend that to [specify that] any individual American citizen who is found to be involved in a foreign terrorist organization, as defined by the Department of State, would be deprived of their citizenship rights,” Lieberman said Tuesday.
So essentially an unelected body of bureaucrats decides that you are an enemy of the state and presto, you have no civil rights and you are shipped off to Gitmo. The problem with this is that the "enemy" is largely determined by who is in power. In light of last year's Department of Homeland Security report warning against the rise of right-wing extremism, advocates of limited government and fidelity to the constitution should be on guard.
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