Their votes on Tuesday should convince you otherwise.

The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial — prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat.

The measure, part of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, was also opposed by civil libertarians on the left and right. But 16 Democrats and an independent joined with Republicans to defeat an amendment by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that would have killed the provision, voting it down with 61 against, and 37 for it.

Backers of the military detention of Americans–a measure crafted by Sen. Carl Levin D- Michigan defended the agreement.  Have these people all gone senile on us?  Let’ get them all the hell out of Washington in 2012.

Listen to this trip from Sen. Lindsey Graham R, S.C.:  ”The enemy is all over the world.  Here at home.  And when people take up arms agains the United States and are captured within the United States, why should be not be able to use our military and intelligence community to question that person as to what they know about enemy activity?  They should not be read their Miranda Rights.  They should not be given a lawyer.

Look at the Democrats who joined the Republicans no surprise to me:  The final vote showed bizarre fractures among Democrats, erasing the usual barriers between conservatives and liberals. The 16 who voted for the harsh detainee rules were Sens. Bob Casey (Pa.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Kay Hagan (N.C.), Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), Herb Kohl (Wis.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Carl Levin (Mich.), Joe Manchin (W. Va.), Clair McCaskill (Mo.), Robert Menendez (N.J.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.). National defense hawk and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) also voted in favor of the tougher language.

NOTE:  THIS AMENDMENT THAT WAS VOTED DOWN WAS AN AMENDMENT TO THE HEINOUS AND MASSIVE “NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT” THAT  I REPORTED ON PREVIOUSLY!

In case you don’t recognize it, folks, this is the attempt of the 1% to replace local police with federal military and to replace our court system with them as well.  The Congressional members supporting this should be in prison themselves–at the least they should all be voted out of office.

The White House is threatening to veto it.  We can only hope that this is real and not just another example of Obama’s twisted rhetoric.

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