We shouldn't be too surprised by this. Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the civil war and detained people, even a US supreme court justice, for speaking out against him. Unfortunately we let our congress and senate representatives authorize the president to do this with the declaration of near unlimited powers over a vaguely defined conflict.
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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