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Taibbi writes: "Here's where I think we're in very dangerous
territory. We have two very different but similarly large
protest movements going on right now in the Tea Party and the
Occupy Movement. What if one of them is linked to a violent act?
What if a bomb goes off in a police station in Oakland, or an
IRS office in Texas? What if the FBI then linked those acts to
Occupy or the Tea Party? You can see where this is going."
Coming Soon: The Indefinite Detention of American Citizens  By
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone  10 December 11   here's some
disturbing rhetoric flying around in the debate over the
National Defense Authorization Act, which among other things
contains passages that a) officially codify the already-accepted
practice of indefinite detention of "terrorist" suspects, and b)
transfer the responsibility for such detentions exclusively to
the military.  The fact that there's been only some muted public
uproar about this provision (whic