justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/03/13 at 00:50:49:That load of crap is not just meant for foreigners,,
It's not crap, and Rachel Maddow is anything BUT a lefty-wingy lady.
"Preventive Detention" is what the Bush Administration introduced with Guantanamo.
"Hey, weren't you Obama's limo driver? Mmm, I'm sure you participated in all his secret meetings and knew all his evil plans!"
"No, I just drove him around and stayed with the car, that's what drivers do"
"We-e-ell, OK, but we'll lock you up just the same for preventive reasons, I'm sure you understand."

Right.
So let's go back in time and bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1938...
Ladies and gents, "preventive detention" is what they did behind the Iron Curtain.
It was called "for your own security" and "in order to make sure you don't hurt youself, we'll put you in a straitjacket and dripfeed you PROZAC until you're smarter than a cauliflower".

Seriously... anytime you guys think "Oh, this is too much!" Just look at European history.
I'm not boasting, quite the opposite, I'm cringing.
FEMA Camps? All European nations have them, they're TENTS by the hundreds neatly stashed away and ready for deployment any time we have an earthquake or a flood.
FEMA trains? No, we have
state train companies, we just pick up the phone and commandeer them, it's in the law.
So... the morale to this story is...

I don't know. I haven't got a morale to suggest.
Your system and mine are so far apart and widely different I wouldn't know where to start.
So I'll simply sit and watch.