[poet]

"The threat to liberty comes from Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, not from the men and women in blue who work to uphold the law"

Tell that to the people at Waco and Ruby Ridge!! These murderers are still walking free.

BS! It is a gestapo act and was probably designed BEFORE 9/11. It wipes out the Writ of Habeous Corpus if you are Suspected of terrorist acts. You can now be held incommunicado indefinitely. It also cutails future dissent against a government policy if a commissar dtermines that your "intent" is to cause bodily injury, etc.

If you like Gestapo 1, you're going to love Gestapo 2.

All they had to do was add two words to existing law, to wit; domestic terrorists.

AND, don't forget, Section 802 no expiration date as does the rest of the "police state act." Why do you suppose that is? This is a tie-in to the New World Order. Just watch how many of the EU's policies we initiate in the future.

Bush and both parties have violated their sworn oaths to uphold the constitution on three occasions: CFR, Gestapo act and the Fatherland act.

[Cacophonous]

I usually am a huge fan of Malkin, but I disagree with her here. The fact is the threat is not from the men in blue (i.e., local cops), but from the FEDERAL law enforcement agencies. I'll concede that under our current leadership, we might not see a Waco or Ruby Ridge, but the infrastructure is there for someone less scrupulous to abuse it.