This part nailed it:
Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street. Preventive detention is the classic defining characteristic of a military dictatorship. Because dictatorial regimes rely on fear rather than consensus, their priority is self-preservation rather than improving their people's lives. They worry obsessively over the one thing they can't control, what Orwell called "thoughtcrime"--contempt for rulers that might someday translate to direct action.
With BHO systematically throwing all his best supporters under the bus, and cozying up with those who hate him most, he must acknowledge that power comes from either voluntary cooperation or brutal compulsion - and he's eroding the former very rapidly, even in his own base a la Rall. Only brutal compulsion is left, and by publicly admitting to seriously considering "preventive detention" he shows an expectation that consent of the govern will give way, and by extention that the only course to maintaining his power is, indeed, brutal compulsion.
At this rate, his own party will remove him before 4 years are up. Biden may follow suit, and I doubt Pelosi will be Speaker then. So who's #4?
Assclown Rall should take a gander at Yuri Bezhmenov’s 1985 interview - wherein he describes exactly what happens to filth like Teddy once they’re done with them.
Ted Rall is living proof that the far left will be the first and the most vicious to turn on Obama.