Six of one, half dozen of the other.

Which would be worse, d'you think? That it was standard procedure to arrange to detain people in contempt of a court's decision, or that it wasn't and they're lying (presumably to cover Andrews' arse)?

It's not a War on Terror, it's a War on Personal Freedom is what it is, OK?

Remember the mashup I did on the National Paranoia Hotline a while ago?

I just discovered today that someone else has been busy.

( Youtubey goodness )

I am in awe.

But if you want some intellectual discussion on this topic, go read this article by Bruce Schneier: The War on the Unexpected

We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.

This isn't the way counterterrorism is supposed to work, but it's happening everywhere.

Can we return to something approximating sanity sometime soon, please?