That decree ushered in de facto martial law, observers said, just two weeks after many Egyptians celebrated the demise of a decades-old emergency law that gave authorities broad leeway to arrest citizens and hold them indefinitely without charge.

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There has been a lot of anxiety across the country lately about the possibility that provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act could be used to have the military arrest American citizens and detain them indefinitely without due process.

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Now its citizens allege they are the victims of arbitrary arrest, torture, and theft.

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Instead of relying on fate to place a CPR-trained citizen in the exact location needed at the exact time needed, essentially requiring a witnessed arrest, the PulsePoint App is used to dispatch nearby CPR-trained citizens simultaneously with the dispatch of local paramedics, so CPR can begin immediately, and an AED can be reliably sourced.

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The other two possibilities are that Israel will become the target of economic sanctions and that Israeli citizens who live beyond the 1949 armistice lines or who have served in the IDF will risk arrest on war crimes charges if we travel abroad.

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Despite the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the publication of secret documents continues around the world, and citizens are demanding more accountability from government leaders and corporate executives.

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"This arrest would not have happened without the public's help, and it demonstrates how much individual citizens can do to help law enforcement attack crime, " ICE Director John Morton said in a statement issued Friday.

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