I've been thinking of having a memorial service for our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Geneva Conventions, Magna Carta and a final farewell to Habeas Corpus. Do you think anyone will come?

Our congressional people have given the president the unilateral authority without limitation or restriction to abduct any person inside or outside America, citizen or not, to hold them indefinitely without trial, to keep their captivity secret, to deny access to judge or lawyer, to use "evidence" obtained from torture in prosecution, to torture as the president sees fit, all at the president's will or whim, without any possibility or remedy or any supervision whatsoever.

It's a recipe for a dictatorship. It gives the president the power to simply make anyone disappear.

In my view this is the vilest piece of legislation in American history. Doubtless other countries have had uglier but this is the bottom of the barrel for America.

I am now more fearful of my own government than of the "terrorists."

Maureen Ugolini

Bloomington

Do you agree?