MCA, the brainchild of the Bush administration, is a part of the well-planned stratagem to subvert civil liberties. The title innocuously refers to Military Commissions (criminal courts run by the US military).“Under the MCA, any US citizen accused of terrorism, including critics of the administration,
is subject to being labelled an ‘enemy combatant’ in the war on terror and held indefinitely by the US military, as well as be tortured and denied due process of law & trial by jury,” Jacob G. Hornberger, President of the US-based Future of Freedom Foundation told B & E. Trenchantly lambasting this Jim Crowesque law, which is ultravires of the US Constitution & Bill of Rights, Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT opined to B & E, “The MCA is one of the most depraved pieces of legislation ever passed in the US. If it survives judicial review, the US will be well on the way towards the executive dictatorship that is the goal of the Bush administration.” This draconian act has veritably destroyed the ideals of the founding fathers of the US. This black law undermines the ‘Great Writ’ of habeas corpus & the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June 2006 in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, wherein it held: “military commissions to try an ‘enemy combatant’ are illegal and lacking the protections required under the Geneva Conventions & US Uniform Code of Military Justice.”
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