John Farmer of The New York Times wrote an opinion piece on September 26 suggesting that the unique danger terrorism poses may require a preventative detention statue…in other word, arrest without real cause.  That this is antithetical to constitutional law, as well as a terrible overreach in government authority doesn’t elude him, but it does show why opinion makers in this country need to be marginalized.

For the original op-ed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27farmer.html?_r=1