U.S. Senate Backs Military Detention of American Citizens
Submitted on December 4, 2011
By Bill Van Auken - WSWS
In 1918, the socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was thrown into prison...for delivering a speech opposing the First World War and calling for the working class to take power and carry out the socialist transformation of society. Even then, however, the government had to try him before a jury. The legislation passed Thursday renders such democratic niceties superfluous. Now such an offense would be punishable by disappearance into a military-run concentration camp.
