Regardless of the enemy, the constitutional protections of our freedoms (what we have left of them, anyway) are not to be traded away to "get" the bad guys. The right to a trial by peers, for instance, or habeas corpus, weren't meant just for the innocent. They were for everybody.

Shrubmeister and his flunkie Ashhole have done everything they could in the short time they've had to undermine personal freedoms and sell our country to the oil industry (that latter mentioned to acknowledge that the undermining of freedoms hasn't been their only goal). The "war" against terrorism is a ready-made excuse to take yet more of our precious freedoms away.

Rollerball, anyone?

Alex