Today we Become a Torture State
Secret evidence in trials?
No right to habeas corpus?
Interrogation techniques that don't need to be disclosed?

You'd expect these things from a dictatorship or a rogue military state. But today these could become the legalized way that America deals with enemy combatants. The torture measure has already passed in the house.

The Times finally gets it right:
•There is not enough time to fix these bills, especially since the few Republicans who call themselves moderates have been whipped into line, and the Democratic leadership in the Senate seems to have misplaced its spine. If there was ever a moment for a filibuster, this was it.

We don’t blame the Democrats for being frightened. The Republicans have made it clear that they’ll use any opportunity to brand anyone who votes against this bill as a terrorist enabler. But Americans of the future won’t remember the pragmatic arguments for caving in to the administration.

They’ll know that in 2006, Congress passed a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts [link added by me].

Saunders sums up how I feel about about the Democrats that have done nothing to stop this:
If you’re not willing to stand for something as basic as human rights, then why should we stand for you?

If this bill passes today, it will be a shameful day for our country.