Well All, for all of my life, up until several years go, I would have quickly responded that "no individual branch of our government had the sole authority to sweep us up and imprison us." After all we had things like "warrants" & "habeous corpus" & "due process" firmly imbeded into the law-of-the-land. Then along came GWB & administration, and their ideas of protecting "we the people" by the Patriot Act, and by declairing certain individuals as "foreign combatants" and thus not subject to Constitutional protections.

Of course, the sleeping-lazzy-terrified Congress did not do their assigned task in safe-guarding "we the people" and so GWB et al got away with this. Stupid me, I was not really aware of how far this autocratic action had taken our government: then I read the book about Rendition called "Ghost Plane". I challenge anyone to read this and still feel safe from the whims & rummors that might come to our government's attention.

The documentation within this book is extraordinary: if any information can be considered reliable, I would suggest that "Ghost Plane" documents such information in a very solid manner.

Once lost, I suspect our individual rights will be very dificult to regain: and the entire concept of a "slippery slope" effect on our freedoms should be terrifying to all of us. ...pjwky