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From: blp Category: Art Date: 16 June 2008 Time: 06:31 PM Review: Yes, I mostly concur. Note, in particular, the idea that Davis will look silly if there's a terrorist attack soon. Outrageous, mind-numbingly moronic, makes-you-want-to-weep conflation of the sort that characterised the worst, 'with us or against us' rhetoric of the Bush administration: as if part of the debate wasn't about whether these kinds of methods are even effective against terrorists, the idea seems to be that their intention (if fighting terrorism really is the intent behind throwing out habeas corpus) is enough to render them effective, so it's dangerous to oppose them. Stupid.