25 May 2008

Be afraid; be very, very afraid

It can, it might and it probably will happen here.

According to arguments by government lawyers at a hearing in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal US resident who has been held without charge on US soil for over six years, the President of the United States "can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely".

Not at all totalitarian or unconstitutional or even terrifying. I am now going to go and hide.

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