Time to pile on that moving violation and adolescent shoplifting episode to the mountain of pre-date worries that already includes AIDS, gonorrhea, relationship baggage, and rejection. Remember the lesson here: FEAR EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME. If you don't have their DNA analysis fully digested, you're at risk. Everyone is a potential psychopath who'll lock you in chains and beat you with baseball bats. Like anyone needs MORE things to worry and fear.

No administration before George W. Bush's ever claimed such sweeping powers for an enterprise as vaguely defined as the "war against terrorism" and the "axis of evil." Nor has one begun to consume such an enormous amount of the nation's resources for a mission whose end would be difficult to recognize even if achieved. 

Like previous forms of totalitarianism, the Bush administration boasts a reckless unilateralism that believes the United States can demand unquestioning support, on terms it dictates; ignores treaties and violates international law at will; invades other countries without provocation; and incarcerates persons indefinitely without charging them with a crime or allowing access to counsel. (read the whole article at commondreams.org)