National Defense Authorization Act spurs uprising from left and right on detainee provisions - St. Petersburg Times


An excerpt from the Dec 8, 2011 article in the St Petersburg Times:


WASHINGTON — In Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio has been attacked as a "traitor." In Arizona, tea party members protested against Sen. John McCain. In Utah, Occupy demonstrators donned black hoods to stand against "radical and uncalled for constraints on our constitutional rights.”


The uprising is directed at provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate last week, that would require the military to arrest terrorist suspects in the United States and detain them indefinitely without trial.


The question is, what do you think about this? Should the government have the right to detain a citizen indefinitely without trial if that person is thought to be engaged in terrorist activities?