"It was a dark hour indeed on Thursday when the United States Senate voted to end the Constitutional Republic...giving the president and his agents the power to capture, torture and imprison forever anyone - American citizens included - whom they arbitrarily decide is an "enemy combatant." ...What is safe to do or say today might imperil your freedom or your life tomorrow. You can never know if you are on the right side of the law, because the "law" is merely the whim of the Leader and his minions.

See: Chris Floyd article