SENATE MOVES TO ALLOW MILITARY POLICE POWERS

[Heffay]

The way I read it, you would have to have some connection to Al Quaeda somehow or other before any other sections would even be applicable.
If you are not a "covered person", you can stop reading at 1031-b and go back to sleep.

No offense but anyone could have "some connection to Al Quaeda" or another terrorist organization. As far as I know you could be a member of Al Qaeda, and now everyone on MN Guntalk could be considered as having a connection to Al Qaeda.

Because you have all just read this thread, you have a connection to Al Quaeda.

Everyone needs to get off of facebook! You're only 4.74 degrees of separation away from Al Qaeda!

Terrorists! They're EVERYWHERE! Won't somebody think of the children?

[farmerj]

I would be interested in hearing what John Kline has to say on this matter...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-932

Especially since he voted in favor of it.

[Dick Unger]

This means just what the ACLU says it means. You can be helsd in custody, peneding "disposition". It is no help to be a US citizen, because, you never have a right to prove that to your captors until "disposition". It's written this way so that it will appear to be innocuous. A government lawyer can easily advise his boss that you can be held until the boss want to be done with you.

[mkoda]

Military with police powers? All they need to do is suspend posse comitatus.