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Re:The Government Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked ... by sitharus on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:10PM (#15767515)
> However, doesn't someone who commits treason give up their rights as a citizen?

You'd have to convict them first, and you'd have to charge them to do that. Keeping a citizen detained without charge is a violation of human rights and something you only expect from a totalitarian regime.

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Re:The Government Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked ... by chiefalchemist on Thursday November 23, 2017 @06:21PM (#15768497)
> "Keeping a citizen detained without charge is a violation of human rights and something you only expect from a totalitarian regime."

If it walks like a duck. And talks like a duck. Then it's a duck.

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