Why don't we combine the indefinite detention and the patriot act together and call it the enabling act?

Question

The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was a 1933 constitutional amendment that played a critical role in the rise of Adolf Hitler to become the dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany by August, 1934. It passed in the Reichstag and signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on 23 March 1933. It followed the Reichstag Fire Decree, that gave Hitler plenary power. It received its name from its legal status as an enabling act granting the Cabinet – in effect, the Chancellor – the authority to enact decrees without involving the Reichstag. The act stated that it was to last four years unless renewed by the Reichstag, which occurred twice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

Answer 1

That has been the argument since it was passed into law. There seems to be some Resistance to repealing the law, in that American's safety and risk to life have been cited as the reason for requiring the acts.



What is even more problematic, is that the behaviors are already evident concerning the authoritarian stance regarding legal protections concerning individual rigths (as they are listed in the USA), or recognized internationally within the International Human Rights. The USA system has already moved into more invasive application of rights violations.



Those issues were already raised years ago, but the government does not want to hear it. Their decisions and modus operandi will continue to define them, regardless of whether they are able to hide behind the American flag and call it a patriotic act.

Answer 2

Indefinite detention IS enabled by the "Patriot" Act...but I'm not surprised that you wouldn't know this BTW, you can take that star a shove it up your ignorant right wing a55! Why are conservatives so mind-numbingly stupid?

Answer 3

Don't give Obama any ideas. You're probably already on a list



You know what's funny bob? We think the same thing about you left wing liberals. Only we're polite enough to let you think you're the smarter ones

Answer 4

Because the two things would only be conflated in the right wing echo chamber. Not in reality.