16
Apr
2009
Two years ago, I alerted people to the fact that the groundwork was being laid for a new kind of government in which virtually everyone is a suspect and it will no longer matter if you're innocent or guilty, whether you're a threat to the nation or even if you're a citizen. What will matter is what the president -- or whoever happens to be occupying the Oval Office at the time -- thinks.
At the time, I was voicing concerns about the liberties the Bush administration was taking in its application of the term "enemy combatant." Today, under the Obama administration, the perceived threat is coming from an altogether different direction: "right-wing extremists."
Illinois state Senator Heather Steans
(D-Chicago) said last week that the Senate Democrats will seek "feedback"
from the Senate Republicans before making final decisions on new rules
for the chamber. Steans was put in charge of devising new rules by Senate
President John Cullerton several months ago.
