Jul 22, 2007
I miss having three branches of government.
"Hi, I'm George Bush, and I'm here to take all your shit."
Two points bear repeating here. One, from the blog post itself:
One problem is that the order cannot be attacked in the courts as unconstitutional unless and until it is used against someone, because no one else would have ’standing’. Being the political animals that they are, the first time they’ll use it will probably be against an undeniable sleazebag, someone almost certainly guilty of the charge. He’d have standing to challenge the order, but the ACLU and other interested groups would be trapped into ‘defending’ a terrorist. And that assumes that someone would be willing to violate the order by taking the case and risking having their entire firm’s assets frozen indefinitely.
And two, from one of the comments:
Q. But if you haven’t done anything wrong, there’s no reason to worry, right?
A. Yeah, unless you have spent any time at all thinking about who’s deciding what “wrong” is.
