Osama continues to win hands down in his campaign to destroy Western democracies

Patriot Act II. Slate’s Today’s Papers reports on the Justice Departments’ planned “Patriot II” which further expands government powers and further degrades civil liberties…

“Let step back a generation shall we? If this were to become law, Martin Luther King and anyone else involved in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, would have likely been labeled domestic terrorists. The Attorney General would have been able to revoke the citizenship of King and anyone who donated money to the cause of civil rights, or who joined the Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, deporting or imprisoning them without any legal recourse. And under the existing rules of the first Patriot act statements extracted under torture by friendly foreign powers would have been admissible evidence in their capitol terrorism trials.” [Way.Nu]