and I have to say that I"m a little creeped out by the references to the movie "Minority Report". I always thought that movie was way too far in the future..but it's not.

Um. This is not the change I EVER wanted. Worse than Bush. I am completely disgusted by Barack Obama. Why in the world is he creating a legal regime for indefinite, prolonged detention? WHO studying the history of our American Revolution remembers that this was one of the main premises of our newly formed government?

Democrats? Republicans? Pah to both of them.

P.S. From Antiwar.com- Obama's Democratic Authoritarianism

At least the Bush crowd had enough remnants of a moral sense to sneak around and try [.pdf] to hide their crimes against liberty and the rule of law. Although they tried to rationalize their actions with after-the-fact legal arguments, the effort seems to me rather halfhearted: they weren’t really all that concerned with legalizing their power grab. They just went ahead and did it, and damn the torpedoes.

The Obamaites, on the other hand, have a different style – but the substance is essentially the same, with the addition of a few minor tweaks and rhetorical flourishes. They want to bureaucratize and institutionalize the horrors of the past eight years and make what used to be unthinkable routine.