Ah, the petty irony of an ObaMao-loving leftist twit bemoaning the loss of liberty. Your cognitive dissonance is affecting your reasoning abilities, Friedersdorf.
skhpcola, 21 December, 2012, responding to the article, "Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment" by Conor Friedersdorf.
Other comments are less belligerent, and include ones such as, "Further proof that 911 created a form of chronic cowardice in Congress that translates over time into less freedom for all of us. In being made so afraid by 911, Congress falls to turning against the American people in its feeble efforts to appear tough on terrorism," by Roncouples, and, "I taught government to high school students for 12 years. I can hardly believe, even after 8 years of Bush II and 4 years of Obama, how willingly our government has shredded our founding document. The protections we have relied on for over 200 years have vanished before our eyes in well under 20. Both parties are complicit, and few in government seem even to be noticing. There should be hundreds, maybe thousands, of citizens picketing the Capitol over this," by Jerry N. Wesner.
Balancing out the previous two comments is a pair of racist (or otherwise xenophobic) comments: "Foreign-born Muslims should never have been permitted US citizenship to begin with. That was the first transgression on the part of our government. That they then followed it up with liquidating them via drone missiles without benefit of trial is simply an error compounding another error. In the end, those they killed were never really "Americans" to being with. Good riddance to them," by WardKendall, and, "I don't know. Some of these so called citizens are just people who wiggled their way into the country and took a false oath. I have a hard time placing them in the same category as a life long American walking down the street in Indiana. If you're hanging out with your Taliban buddies, you shouldn't get special treatment just because you have a passport of a certain color," by Keith West.
And, finally, rbeccah's "We have always been at war with Oceania," serves as a reminder of the hidden implications of Friedersdorf's subject.