"Life is always a trade off. It is clear to me that the odds of me and my family meeting up with a terrorist are vanishingly small. The odds of having a run-in with an Ashcroft JBT is far greater..." 
There you go again. Here you are blaming Ashcroft for a precedent set back to WW2 times with the Geneva Convention.
Look kid, I've already explained to you that Bush didn't invent the treatment of enemy combatants...yet you persist in pretending that Bush and Ashcroft are your boogeymen.
That sort of dishonesty has no place in civilized society.
Either correctly place the blame on the Geneva Convention rather than on the harmless Patriot Act, or else leave this forum.
There you go again. Here you are blaming Ashcroft for a precedent set back to WW2 times with the Geneva Convention.Did any previous administration ever pick up a citizen off the street and lock him away without trial? Not since Lincoln did we have such an evil administration capable of such outrageous behavior. Stop blaming the Geneva convention. The president should know the rare cases when that applies and the everyday situations where due process applies. Jose Padilla is a kidnap victim and George Bush is the head of the gang holding him. Ashcroft is the Capo.