It is chilling that defense lawyer Lynne Stewart faces 30 years in prison. Clearly the reason is to warn off all attorneys who agressively defend enemies of the state. The feds want passive defense counsel of the old Soviet sort.

Stewart eays she is guilty of no crime, but the charges are ironic: that she passed on advice from her client to his supporters in Egypt to work to overthrow the dictatorship. If it were a US-hated rather than a US-created dictatorship, she’d get a prize.

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Now that he is confirmed as CIA commissar, Michael Hayden can get on with his real job: vastly stepping up the spying on those the government really fears: the American people. (Thanks to LL for the link.)

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After 9/11, that gift to the gestapo, I expected attempted surveillance of car travel. If there is anything a police state hates, it is unsupervised movement. And now we can see what they have in mind, as pioneered by the junior fascist Tony Blair. (Thanks to Paul Craig Roberts and Ralph Raico for the link.)

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