This might be something you wish to check out...

[quiet_screaming]

Apparently, there was another abusive bill that was signed into law on the day the Military Comission Act passed. A certain clause of it could allow the United States government to use military forces to put down any sort of "public disorder" that might arise.

I wish vindication wasn't so bloody bittersweet.

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/1732834.php