Salon adds it voice on the DSEA
More secret arrests, more power to spy
Despite official denials, Attorney General John Ashcroft has grand plans for new anti-terror legislation. Critics -- on the left and the right -- are worried. [Salon]

Where's the economic policy?
Writing in his blog on Salon, Scott Rosenberg quips:

Yes, a year is a long time, and a lot can happen between now and New Hampshire 2004. But we've had three years of George Bush, and three years ought to be enough time to get an economic policy together. Bush's is MIA. Unless there's a major turnaround in the next six to nine months, the Democrats ought to be able to make something of that. If they can't, they don't deserve to govern.

And yet rumblings of war loom and threaten to make the currently crappy economy look like a walk in the park once the bombs start falling in Iraq and the increased terrorist fears hit home...

Transcript: Bill Moyers helps reveal the Son of the Patriot Act
Since it is one of the top links on Daypop today, webloggers at least are pointing out the revelations about the leaked documents in the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, since they are pointing to a Bill Moyers interview with Chuck Lewis, Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, that reveals details of the plan.

But it is going to take more than talk to wipe this draconian civil rights grab from being pushed through once the Shrub gets the war he is dead set on creating in Iraq. It is time to start lobbying your representatives and senators now, before the war starts and before government officials pass this thing in the fear that follows...

The Domestic Security Enhancement Act
It looks like it is time to start paying even more dilligent attention to what the crazies in the Bush Administration are planning to force down the throats of the American people.

Bush Wants Secret Arrests
Here I am preparing for terrorist attacks and what do I get? I get news that the Bush White House is asking for secret arrests in the form of a Domestic Security Enhancement Act. He doesn't have my permission, and he's got a lot of nerve asking. This has gone too far. I'm flying the Gadsden flag, and I hope every American does. I am not so afraid of terrorists that I am willing to approve this usurpation of power and shortcutting of the judicial branch of American government. No way. [Kuro5hin.org]

Rumblings about a new power grab to add to the uprecedented powers taken in the USA Patriot Act were also written about yesterday on Slashdot.
Is there any truth to this? Is it just a hoax to deflect attention from other matters? With the current state of things in the U.S. it is hard to tell. But it is clear that after giving up so many of our rights in the knee-jerk reaction to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, those of us in the U.S. cannot afford to sit idly by while Bush and Ashcroft create their own Orwellian world...