With regard to the current legislation to give the military authority to detain and hold individuals without charge or trial:
It is interesting that in order to combat current, and future, totalitarian regimes abroad, that our elected representatives in congress find it necessary and prudent to install the basic machinery of a totalitarian regime at home............
I suppose that if one cannot establish a one-party state by popular vote, then it is reasonable to use a campaign of domestic terror, as both hitler and mussolini did, and command compliance by threat of imprisonment for whimsical charges that have no basis in either civil or criminal law.