re: #315 subsailor68

Hi SixDegrees! Yeah, I do agree with ya. My concern was more hypothetical, in a situation where - as AG Holder said - a defendant could be retained even in the case of a not-guilty verdict.

Statements like Holder’s ought to scare the shit out of people; they do for me. What he’s saying is that the government has the power to lock people up indefinitely, without giving a reason, even if a court of law reviews the evidence and finds the person not guilty.

People used to whine about the Bush Administration’s “Star Chambers” and “secret courts,” and those were purely delusional. Here, we have the nation’s top justice official making the most chilling statement imaginable when it comes to curtailing personal freedoms, and I’m hearing very little opposition.