The "Military Commissions Act of 2006"

This new legislation repeals the central tenets of the US Constitution which require the state to charge a man with a crime before putting him in jail as well as the 8th Amendment prohibition of "cruel and inhuman" punishment. Renowned US Law professor Bruce Ackerman noted that the legislation: "Authorizes the President to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights." A litany of complaints now blankets the US legal profession. Here’s one more. The Act eliminates Habeas Corpus for any detainees: "Who would lose the basic right to challenge their imprisonment." It removes judicial review, so: "The courts would have no power to review any aspect of this new system, except the verdicts by military tribunals. All Mr. Bush would have to do to lock anyone up forever is to declare him an illegal combatant and not have a trial."
US Senator Patrick Leahy is spot on when he blasts the new law. The senator said this on the sad occasion of the bills passage.
"…passage of H.R.6166, the ‘Military Commissions Act of 2006’, was stunning. Torture is now officially legal, it provides amnesty for any ‘US personnel’ who have tortured people in the past, it allows for anyone -- American citizens included -- to be deemed ‘enemy combatants’ and it suspends Habeas Corpus for anyone, setting up an entirely new system of ‘military commissions’ which will be utilized by the President at will, the decisions of which can not be reviewed by any court."

All in America must know this. The Republic is dying right now.