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I fear that Caesar's army is approaching the Rubicon, as anonymity turns into "Privacy"... Separation of Power turns into the "Unitary Executive"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory#The_George_W._Bush_administration Prisoners of War turn into "Unlawful Enemy Combatants"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_enemy_combatants#2001_Presidential_military_order Torture becomes narrowly defined as pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bybee_memo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo Justice for all succumbs to the "State Secrets Privilege" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/elmasri_order_granting_motion_dismiss_051206.pdf As Thomas Jefferson once said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jefffed.html It was true when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, it was true in the Civil War, it was true in the Second World War, and perhaps the time is coming when it will be true again. You might want to think about which side you're going to be on.
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I fear that Caesar's army is approaching the Rubicon, as anonymity turns into "Privacy"...
Separation of Power turns into the "Unitary Executive"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory#The_George_W._Bush_administration
Prisoners of War turn into "Unlawful Enemy Combatants"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_enemy_combatants#2001_Presidential_military_order
Torture becomes narrowly defined as pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bybee_memo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
Justice for all succumbs to the "State Secrets Privilege"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/elmasri_order_granting_motion_dismiss_051206.pdf
As Thomas Jefferson once said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jefffed.html
It was true when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, it was true in the Civil War, it was true in the Second World War, and perhaps the time is coming when it will be true again.
You might want to think about which side you're going to be on.