Perhaps you bloggerati who fear the worst about the DHS and blog (quite intriguingly, but perhaps overwrought-ly) about military takeovers (via InstaPundit) and the end of blogging as we know it by 2012 or 2014 ought to read Terry Eastland’s column today over on Jewish World Review.
[UPDATE: I fixed the link to Eastland’s article to point to the permanent page at JWR.]
Some good points here. Lincoln (and Davis, too, but nobody remembers) suspended the right of habeas corpus, there were loyalty prosecutions under Wilson in WWI, and of course, we resettled the Japanese in concentration camps during WWII. Eastland’s point is that we don’t see any of that happening, and none of these restrictions seem to repeat themselves.
Eastland cites an essay by two professors at the University of Chicago Law School which discusses all of this. I won’t link the essay directly, go read Eastland and click on his link to it.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)