DANGER, Will Robinson! DANGER!

If you say, "hey, only bad guys are getting caught up by the administration's unconstitutional jailing of so-called enemy combatants.", here is a story to turn your stomach. American whistle blowers were jailed and interrogation methods were used against them.

Here is a taste of that story:

One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.

Or worse.

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut.

He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and the rocket-launchers — all of them being sold for cash, no receipts necessary, he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers, State Department workers, and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.

The seller, he claimed, was the Iraqi-owned company he worked for, Shield Group Security Co.

“It was a Wal-Mart for guns,” he says. “It was all illegal and everyone knew it.”

So Vance says he blew the whistle, supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn’t know whom to trust in Iraq.

For his trouble, he says, he got 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein, and he was classified a security detainee.(TRM emphasis)

It's what the lawyers call "the slippery slope". Yes, we have a war on terrorism, which is being fought incompetently on so many fronts, but the real danger to "The United States of America" occurs when we curtail what makes us so special, our constitutionally guaranteed rights. At that point we no longer exist as the country we think we are, but we become another corrupt dictatorship.

Benjamin Franklin said,"those people willing to give up a little freedom for a little security, wind up with neither freedom nor security."