In the Worst-Case-Scenario Department

Arthur Silber writes:

...the only reason you aren't in a concentration camp right now is because Bush hasn't decided to send you to one -- yet.

Now, before you call me Chicken Little, think about something: Prior to the last few years, it would be easy to poo-poo the notion of U.S. concentration camps because our President doesn't have that much power. The Congress would have to be complicit in something so egregious. That's why we have our holy Separation of Powers - to avoid vesting too much power in one person, right? Now come back to 2006, when the news is passe that the President assumes he can violate well-established, easily understandable law because of his powers as Commander-in-Chief. When he has said that the law only applies to him if it doesn't conflict with his own interpretation of the Constitution.

The bottom line? The legal groundwork - the most difficult part - has already been laid to allow the President to do whatever the hell he wants, even the doomsday scenario of concentration camps. Hell, some of his pundit supporters already like the idea.

All they would need is, like, another Pearl Harbor. Or should we now start calling it "another 9/11"?