1 Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for. And remember, a "terrorist" is whomever the Bush administration declares to be a terrorist. That means any U.S. citizen declared a "terrorist" by the Bush administration can be picked up off the streets and rendered to a prison in Egypt without any habeus corpus and held indefinitely without any trial.

2 Or any US citizen declared a terrorist by any Democrat mayor, city council, or governor.

3 Well, uh, yes, I guess so ... Probably the best solution is to do as Colin Powell suggests, "I wouldn't close down Guantanamo tomorrow, I'd close it down this afternoon!" After all, we have 12 million people in prisons today, and they all had the right of habeas corpus and a legal defense, yet they were still convicted in our justice system. If a wiretap is justified, it is hardly a problem to get a judge to authorize surveillance. Warrantless wiretaps (approved by the Attorney General, no less, AFTER the wiretap has been done) serve only to harm or put fear in ordinary citizens. The U.S. Naval Officer who defended a Guantanamo detainee and won his case in the Supreme Court said he recommends that accused terrorists be tried as criminals in our federal judicial system. www pbs org/now/shows/331/index George Bush has set himself up as judicial, legislative and executive branch OUTSIDE the Universal Code of Military Justice, which the Supreme Court has ruled the Commander-in-Chief must obey, too. He is not above the laws of our nation.

4 I refuse to say that the US should provide Constitutional protections for every person on the planet. If that's the case, well, we better start gearing up for A LOT more wars, because a lot of countries are going to oppose that action!