"Um, I'm not really into bondage."

"Americans should recoil as one against the idea of preventive detention, imprisoning people indefinitely, for years and perhaps for life, without charge and without giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their innocence.

"President Obama is O.K. with this (he calls it 'prolonged detention'), but he wants to make sure it is carried out — here comes the oxymoron — fairly and nonabusively."
--Bob Herbert, NY Times, June 22 2009