perfidy

Windy City Mike, DITTO on everything you said, from your thoughts on casual empire to questions about the potential for us to see an Alien & Sedition Acts Redux. Patriot II is in fact in the works, and if it passes, Bush will become exactly as poor a President as John Adams by that scorecard. The government has already taken the opportunities presented by the War on Terror to pass opportunitistic legislation, and if that legislation contains provisions to ensure that nobody arrested under certain provisions can ever appear in court to challenge it, thus preventing judicial review, then where does that leave the balance of power?

p.s. I have been meaning to write a longer essay on fear and government. Someday I will get to it. Threat, or promise? You decide.