The Alien and Sedition Act. I know this because it is the legislative equivalent of what he is doing now, only now we have secret courts, too. Secret courts so secret they needed to be kept from those who put Bush into office in the first place. The only reason Bush, Cheney, et al. Keep complaining about how civil liberties are endangering us is because they are afraid someone will use some civil liberties and send them all to jail, then Bush can go down as the first president in the twenty-first century to be impeached, and perhaps the first president ever to go to jail, but I doubt anyone would let it get that far.
I ask, why isn't the clamor louder, but then remember most Americans seem to have happily traded their freedoms for a bit of false security. When the Homeland Security Secretary states that the resources are not available to defend every possible target against every possible threat, then all Homeland Security does is satisfy the need people have of something being done, whether or not this is true is irrelevant--that is why I say Americans have traded their freedoms for false security.
Why do we keep moving in this direction? Not everyone agrees it is the way to go, but the majority still think secret spying is o.k! How soon before the U.S. government begins behaving like the Chinese government, blocking undesirable information on the web, hoping the populace doesn't notice the omission, or arresting 'bloggers who disagree and say so for the world to see?
Today I read that the military (Secretary of the Air Force, or whatever the big wig of the USAF is called) suggested using non-lethal weapons on U.S. citizens to ensure that there were no bugs that would cause them to be lethal. He is a bit late in his suggestion, but I think he was hoping to move beyond the Tazer.
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