Sigh
A government attorney argued today that America is a battlefield and President Bush therefore has the authority to detain enemy combatants indefinitely in this country.
One of the "enemy combatants" they're talking about is Jose Padilla, an American citizen who has been illegally held without trial by the United States government, after being seized from a Manhattan jail cell.
Who needs habeas corpus when you can just wave your little magic wand and strip people of the rights given to them by the United States Constitution? And the wonderful thing about this whole "enemy combatant" classification is that all the federal government has to do is to keep from breaking into laughter while reading the press release stating that J. Random Minority was planning to crash the Earth into the Sun, fluoridate the water supply for a city, or engage in same-sex marriage.
It's so much tidier than the quaint nation of laws that those sissy liberals want.