Your treason argument is still the strongest persuasion I've heard to change sides. This one doesn't work for me: evil men will do evil things with or without the law. That's why I don't buy the Ashcroft is the Devil line spouted by the left and, sadly, some here....Janet Reno didn't have the Patriot Act and she acted in a more unconstitutional way than any AG in recent memory.
Ok, lets take her for example. Say some group aggravates her. The NRA might, but they're too big to all throw in jail. Say she wants to pick on the Tyranny Response Team. They're small, unknowns with less resources so they'll do just fine.
She points her fat finger at them and says they're a bunch of terrorists. She has them rounded up in the middle of the night as domestic terrorists and traitors. The ones that live through the raid are jailed.
What happens next? Well, under this ruling they get their day in court. Reno has to present evidence to another branch of government. The TRT is acquitted and released.
Barring this ruling they could very well sit in jail for the rest of their lives without a shred of evidence or any charges against them. Just her word and her word alone is all that's needed. I fail to see the difference between that and many countries I'd be ashamed to call home.
This isn't far fetched at all. It's a very plausible situation under most Rat administrations. It horrifies me.