Welcome our new dictator.

I think the first people to be prosecuted under this bill should be its authors for attempting to destroy our way of government and life from within. How long has this infiltration been going on?

The Bush administration has systematically destroyed every law ever made to protect American citizens from their own government, and yet I'm still amazed at the temerity of this. Will the next step be not simply not doing things labeled as "terrorist acts", but actual requirements to prove your allegience?

To quote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: "When courts issue decisions that overturn long-standing traditions or policies without proper support in text or precedent, they cannot - and should not - be shielded from criticism". Ironically, Gonzales doesn't apply this same reasoning to the Executive branch of our government. Apparently the courts should be criticised for overturning long-standing traditions and policies but that anyone who criticises the Executive branch should be imprisoned and tortured until they confess, and then possibly put to death.

You might convince yourself that "well, the wording might allow them to do that, but they never would", but then you'd be a fucking idiot. Bush has already stated publicly that he does whatever the law allows. He further clarified that he meant this in terms of the fullest extent of the law. If the law allows him to kidnap and torture U.S. citizens, he will.

Double-plus ungood.