TedPage: Enemy combatants

I've just been listening to an NPR story on the case before the supreme court about the holding of enemy combatants. Now, I can kinda understand that while you are still completing major millitary operations (to use Mr. Bush's words) you need to be able to hold people who are effectively POWs. But, people in the US? There is no gray area here for me. Those people, while perhaps plotting to kill people in the US, they deserve a trial promised to them by the constitution. There is too much power in the presidency if the president can hold people indefinately just because he applies a label on them. If you'll remember, Hitler imprisioned much of the legislative branch before key votes in his rise to power. The executive branch can not be allowed to hold people indefinately by just placing a label on them.

Over the years governments have removed civil rights under modivation of fear. Our greatest enemy is fear itself.