text: is the usa a dictatorship? - "military commissions act" and the death of habeas corpus? habeas corpus has been suspended for american citizens...if you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an "unlawful enemy combatant"(this is defined as anyone the us president considers unlawful), how will you get your trial without rights?...they no longer have to tell you why they are holding you. if you agressively yell at protest you will be arrested! police allowed to torture you to organ failure!  so, what is the difference b/w the usa of today & nazi germany? ...agree with a few previous above: ...this government is more dangerous than what it's trying to protect. regarding the paranoia comments, read:  * president john adams - insists the alien insidition act was necessary yet he used it to jail newspaper columnists & editors;  * president woodrow wilson - insists the espionage act was necessary yet uses it to jail 2000+ of his opposition public spkrs;  * president roosevelt - executive order 9066 (mentioned above)- insists it's needed yet jails 110,000+ americans!!! in camps across america. the us army general justifies it by saying they are still japanese!, given no reason why they held when released.  yeah i can see the unmarked vans too, and fidel hahaha...bill of rights are gone pretty much...open your eyes, all the points are all facts...you can be tortured & your confession be used!? wtf!   harsh words to call it a dictatorship, but the people and congress voted it in with a majority and no one cares. hopefully it won't last.