Take my freedoms. I wasn't using them, anyway.

Fark.com has a great headline: "Federal judge delivers secret ruling using secret evidence that the defence was secretly not allowed to see"

The story is here, which is taken from The New York Times.

The prosecutors asked the judge to review their papers in his chambers without making them public or showing them to the defense. At midafternoon the judge issued a document announcing that he had entered the classified order denying Mr. Kindlon's request. ...

... [Defense lawyer] Mr. Kindlon asked that all evidence in the case stemming from N.S.A. wiretaps be given to the defense. He argued that the program was unconstitutional and so the evidence should be suppressed.

"The government engaged in illegal electronic surveillance of thousands of U.S. persons, including Yassin Aref, then instigated a sting operation to attempt to entrap Mr. Aref into supporting a nonexistent terrorist plot, then dared to claim that the illegal N.S.A. operation was justified because it was the only way to catch Mr. Aref," Mr. Kindlon wrote in his brief.

This, of course, is the same warrantless surveillance that almost nobody thinks is actually legal or authorized, and that Congress isn't exactly rushing to investigate.

What's next? Maybe we'll just start disappearing people, maybe like locking up American citizens and try to keep them from seeing lawyers. Wait. Oh. Sorry. Already doing that. What else can we do in the war on terror?

AHA! Let's lock up brown people! Hey, it worked before:

He was excluded [placed into a prison camp] because we are at war with the Japanese Empire, because the properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and felt constrained to take proper security measures, because they decided that the military urgency of the situation demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from the West Coast temporarily, and finally, because Congress, reposing its confidence in this time of war in our military leaders -- as inevitably it must -- determined that they should have the power to do just this. There was evidence of disloyalty on the part of some, the military authorities considered that the need for action was great, and time was short.