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Now This is Scary

From Los Angeles Times Staff and Wire Reports

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge.

Do you realize this means that the government can keep you - yes you, this isn't limited to guys with beards who pray 5 times a day - in custody for the rest of your life without any evidence that you have done anything wrong? Doesn't that bother you?

Unless this is changed, the terrorists have won. They beat us. The United States, Land of the Free, is now a police state where the accused no longer have any rights. All that has to happen is that someone, somewhere in the government takes a dislike to you and accuses you of terrorist activities. Bingo, you're in jail for the rest of your life. And what a jail. You won't be tortured, unless sleeping handcuffed in freezing or boiling rooms with bright lights and loud music, makes you uncomfortable. You will have no contact with anyone unless the government approves it, so who do you think you'll complain to?

I can just hear George Orwell now, "see, I told you so, but you wouldn't believe me would you, said it couldn't happen didn't you, only crackpot extremism on my part wasn't it. How long before you say, "do it to Julia.""

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