What Digby Said*

Another one of those posts from Digby, starting with Mike Huckabee (maybe Cory Burnell will make him president of South Carolina when the secession finally happens) and moving into Guantanamo and the perversion of America that is the Bush war on terror.

This thinking gives you a pretty clear look into how Huckabee and his little Republican followers view the concepts of justice and security. And the inescapable conclusion is that these primitive authoritarians may very well be only one short step from applying the laws of the "war on terror" to the American judicial system in general. You cannot make a logical distinction between believing the government should lock potential terrorists up because they might cause some harm and locking potential criminals up because they might cause some harm. It is only a matter of time before that thinking bleeds into the lizard brains of a good portion of Americans, who up to now have been more or less successfully inculcated in the great American values of "innocent until proven guilty" and "due process" and "inalienable rights" even if they didn't always practice them perfectly. We certainly didn't have politicians openly calling for keeping innocent people imprisoned forever because they might do something wrong in the future and it would make the government look bad for having let them out!

I don't really have anything to add.

* (With credit to Atrios)