Jose Padilla and the American Tyranny

When a federal district court ruled last week in favor of President Bush in the case of Jose Padilla -- the only American imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” by Presidential order -- it struck a major blow at the Constitution, upholding actions by the administration which Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has said “created a unique and unprecedented threat to the freedom of every American citizen.”

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