What Fresh Hell Is This? Let's Throw Due Process Under the Bus

Well, that's just great:

In his last official act of business in 2011, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act from his vacation rental in Kailua, Hawaii. In a statement, the president said he did so with reservations about key provisions in the law — including a controversial component that would allow the military to indefinitely detain terror suspects, including American citizens arrested in the United States, without charge.

The legislation has drawn severe criticism from civil liberties groups, many Democrats, along with Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who called it “a slip into tyranny.” Recently two retired four-star Marine generals called on the president to veto the bill in a New York Times op-ed, deeming it “misguided and unnecessary.”

Doesn't ANYBODY know what due process is?  Read the Fifth Amendment, please.  (You'll remember this related bit with the TSA.)  Between this and SOPA, I am starting off the year in a nasty mood indeed.  Hope and change?  Civil rights?  You're doing it wrong.  Once upon a time, it actually meant something to be a citizen!