The lettre de cachet and the bill of attainder has been rehabilitated by President Obama's legal team in the name of national security, in the name of a constitutional  exceptionalism, of imminent treat to our security, in the name of the current political hysteria, an American tradition. The attack on the Republic is from within not from without. Not only from the Neo-Conservative political psychotics but from within the New Democratic party that now governs us, in its faltering, clumsy political meekness.We voted for 'hope' and 'change' and instead got the moldering corpse of Clintonism.

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