Geodog

Some other people get it too

It is nice to see the broader segments of our society opposing Bush's war on civil liberties.

The Washington Post, in an editorial today, Two Pages Are Not Enough,  asked "What burden does the government have to shoulder before it can lock away an American citizen indefinitely without charge as an enemy combatant?" and concluded that it was certainly more than a two page declaration consisting entirely of assertions by a government official who does not purport to be offering firsthand information.

The American Bar Association voted yesterday to oppose the Bush administration's secret detention of foreign nationals after the Sept. 11 attacks, urging that their names be disclosed and they be given immediate access to lawyers and family members.

And there was the previously blogged Newsweek story about the paucity of evidence that Jose Padilla was up to anything besides coming to the US to see his kid.

Update: and there is this LA times Op-Ed piece, Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision  by somebody who evidently feels even stronger than I do. Tip o the hat to Tapped.

While I don't labor under the misapprehension that the Bush administration pays a lot of attention to what the Washington Post or Newsweek or the ABA say, it seems like wider and more mainstream groups are starting to see the danger in the usurpation of legislative and judicial power by the Bush administration. That's gotta be good.