Decius wrote:

BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.

Oh Fuck...

I'll be one to say "I told you so." A number of people (like me) have been talking, and yelling, and screaming that we are looking at the worst bunch of assholes ever to sit in power in Washington. And people keep saying, "you don't understand 9/11" or "you're a Chicken Little."

No, it's because this was the first bunch of scumbags who would try to do something like this. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the United States of America, rogue superpower. "May you live in interesting times" is an ancient curse. they just got incalcuably more interesting.

RE: Hard To Do Any Worse