[news] 'Enemy Combatant' or Enemy of the Government?

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

For the executive power of the United States, the fight against terrorism is a war and not an ordinary police operation. Based on this interpretation, it has put in place a group of liberty-destroying measures ostensibly justified by the state of emergency. The suppression of habeas corpus for foreigners suspected of terrorism and the establishment of a continual surveillance of the whole population are thus made possible.

  


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