In case I disappear

[mdlbear]

In Case I Disappear - The Smirking Chimp

I have been told a thousand times at least, in the years I have spent reporting on the astonishing and repugnant abuses, lies and failures of the Bush administration, to watch my back. "Be careful," people always tell me. "These people are capable of anything. Stay off small planes, make sure you aren't being followed." A running joke between my mother and me is that she has a "safe room" set up for me in her cabin in the woods, in the event I have to flee because of something I wrote or said.

I always laughed and shook my head whenever I heard this stuff. Extreme paranoia wrapped in the tinfoil of conspiracy, I thought. This is still America, and these Bush fools will soon pass into history, I thought. I am a citizen, and the First Amendment hasn't yet been red-lined, I thought.

Matters are different now.

(from this post by filkertom)

Comments

A Putrid Way to Balance the Budget

[idea-fairy.livejournal.com]

If the Feds grab somebody and whisk them off to some secret prison under this law, are they obligated to cooperate with local authorities when the person's family reports them missing?

What if they keep mum until a reward is offered for information about the person's whereabouts, and then come clean: "We're holding her at Guantanamo (or wherever)"? Are the Feds then entitled to claim the reward?