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You know...when wiretapping was all the rage, everyone said "if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide". I always regarded them as idiots who never looked at history as a precursor (i.e. McCarthyism)...but now what exactly entails an "enemy combatant"? Dissent is a healthy thing...without it people would essentially be mindless zombies that exist only to promote a party agenda. But with one person and one party calling the shots as to who is and isn't worthy of such a title, everyone needs to be afraid. Now Bush could legally lock up virtually anyone who disagreed with him and torture them. That's unlikely since the public outcry would be incredible, but the fact that the possibility is even there is more than horrifying. There needs to be a law...whenever one party has the presidency, the other party controls the congress. I know that sounds odd, but when one party controls both you get ridiculously insane legislature like this passed.

Oh...and where the fuck was John McCain during all of this? Of all people, you'd think a Vietnam POW who'd endured unspeakable acts of torture would have pushed hard against this bill. But instead he knuckled under like some school boy bitch. What the fuck?