>A suspect is only a suspect, not a terrorist. When the government starts treating suspects as already convicted terrorists, then we no longer have democracy. How is any of this different from the goings on in Russia during the cold war that the U.S. was railing so hard against .
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Again assumptions are being made of the goings-on. How is it different? No reports of people getting "eliminated" in prisons.

>If they do it it's evil totalitarianism. If we do it, it's a requirement of democracy? Sorry, not in this lifetime. Wrong is wrong.

Well I can't argue with that last sentence.. but:

You focus on the treatment, I focus on the purpose. Perhaps it's because you have not been the target of terrorism? And I'm not saying the ends justify the means, but we have to worry about those ends.