[extropy-chat] Tyranny in place

[Russell Wallace]

On 9/29/06, Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
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> Something significant happened today in the history of the United
> States. The Congress today vested in the President the power to order
> anyone -- U.S. citizen, resident alien or foreign national -- detained
> indefinitely in a military prison regardless of where they are -- U.S.
> soil or outside of the country. American detainees are cut off from any
> meaningful judicial review and everyone else is cut off completely. They
> can be subject to torture with no recourse, and all of this happens on
> the unchecked say-so of the administration.
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Jesus.

It's one thing to know intellectually that freedom is a rare phenomenon,
historically speaking, and that there was no particular reason to suppose it
would be long-lived; to imagine future dystopian scenarios, however vividly.
But I didn't think something on this level would happen this soon. I suppose
this must be what people felt in the 1930s listening to the news from
Germany.
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