Too vague
While reading the Military Commission Act of 2006 it seem to me that it wasn’t a well drafted law, many paragraphs and definitions are too vague. It accurse to me that the vague language isn’t a mistake nor is a sloppy drafting, it was done purposely - and it is even more scary.
One of the most disturbing examples I found laying in the definitions of crimes triable by military commission, specifically in paragraph 950v(25):
WRONGFULLY AIDING THE ENEMY.—
Any person who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States or one its co-belligerents shall be guilty of the offense of wrong fully aiding the enemy and shall be subject to whatever punishment the commission may direct.
The vagueness of this paragraphs is so obvious that no law maker possibly noticed it, but they left it as is. And the vagueness of the definition of who is falling under the category of one that doesn’t enjoy the right of habeas corpus is simply too dangerous. Even if we agree that for the duration of the war the right of habeas corpus can be suspended, and I do not agree, it should have been extremely limited and very well define. However the way that this law drafted opening the gate for further abuse of personal freedom and further braking of the checks and balances that secured these liberties. Judging from past comments of the administration about people that didn’t agree with its policy about fighting terrorism as aiding the enemy, including similar statements after Liberman lost the CT primaries, many of us falling under category 950v(25).
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David link was to McCain's speech supporting the Bill. I never though that McCain was better than Bush in this respect, both of them are social conservatives that believe in big government. This is simply the results of being in power for too long, and its time for them to go home.
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