Scenario: Bush Putsch

Now that we have our new law on detention of enemy combatants, I was thinking of possible things to come:

Yes, it's November 2006, and things look bad for the Republican Party. Things are especially bad in that swing state, Ohio, that was supposed to be in the bag because of those gosh-darned new voting machines, but things have gone awry. The Republicans have barely won the state, but there are widespread and quite credible accusations of fraud that have the press and public all exercised. In particular, the eye-witness accounts of one Democratic campaign worker, not to mention his compiled background research, threaten to turn the result around if a court challenge can be mounted. Terror alert to the rescue!

It seems that the FBI has determined that the third cousin by marriage of the Dem worker is related to a man who might have spent time at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. A special tribunal is convened that quickly determines that the worker is therefore an enemy combatant. He is 'detained', which is to say arrested and sequestered, no one knows where. All his records and possessions are siezed and classified. The man is not heard from again. The court challenge falters and fails.

All perfectly legal, you know.