NP: Alienation and Sedition Act?

[David Morris]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Robert.  There is, in paragraph (1) of section 1032, a requirement to hold certain classes of persons that in (b) is specified as not extending to United States Citizens or to Lawful Resident Aliens.

Right.

1.  United States Citizens or Lawful Resident Aliens are not
*required* to be held, but NDAA's prime power expansion is military
law onto US turf.  SCOTUS has already ruled that US Citizens captured
in war zones can be held indefinitely in military detention.  NDAA
would allow the same everywhere.

2.  BY simple logic, unless NDAA specifically excludes US citizens on
US turf and other non-war zones, it clearly ALLOWS it by way of
extending the turf of military reach.

David Morris

> I am not a lawyer, but as an Information Assurance analyst and former technical writer, my read is that, the ability to hold Americans has not changed, i.e. it is not expressly forbidden in this bill.  I also think that it would take just a few tweaks for the bill to expressly exclude United States Citizens or to Lawful Resident Aliens from being held under the bill, but your read may be different.