Keith Olbermann from MSNBC reacts to the dangers of the Military Commissions Act signed into law by G.W. Bush on October 18, which among other things removes the Constitutional right of habeas corpus from both American citizens and foreign nationals, if the President says they are an "unlawful enemy combatant." Now anyone can be arrested and held indefinitely without trial if the government wants to do so.

For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering: A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

Olbermann pointedly draws parallels with similar mistakes in our past history, including the Espionage Act excesses under Woodrow Wilson, the Alien and Sedition Acts under John Adams, and the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.

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