S. 3081 - Big Brother WILL Be Watching You

Read The Bill: S. 3081 - Mar 4, 2010 - GovTrack.us

The following assholes are responsible for this contemptible piece of shit: Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. BROWN(MA), Mr. WICKER, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. LEMIEUX, Mr. SESSIONS, and Mr. VITTER (withdrawn)

Essentially this gives the government carte blanche in arresting those it sees as a "threat" to national security. How they determine that threat is rather arbitrary. Per Sec. 3.d.2 :
(2) CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF INDIVIDUALS AS HIGH-VALUE DETAINEES- The regulations required by this subsection shall include criteria for designating an individual as a high-value detainee based on the following:

(A) The potential threat the individual poses for an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the United States or upon United States citizens or United States civilian facilities abroad at the time of capture or when coming under the custody or control of the United States.

(B) The potential threat the individual poses to United States military personnel or United States military facilities at the time of capture or when coming under the custody or control of the United States.

(C) The potential intelligence value of the individual.

(D) Membership in al Qaeda or in a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda.

(E) Such other matters as the President considers appropriate.

Basically if you piss of the government enough this bill would give them the power to detain your ass nearly indefinitely. I don't feel like posting this proposal piece by piece but there are no provisions for evidence necessary to evince such a reaction, so you can imagine the loose terms that will frame that argument all under the auspices of "national security". Additionally they make provisions to separate people categorized as unprivileged enemy belligerents from those categorized as privileged enemy belligerents who are protected as prisoners of war by the Geneva Convention (Sec. 6.8,9).

You would think a former POW such as McCain would stand vehemently against this kind of shit, but alas he is just another douchebag with a Napoleon complex who wants ultimate power.