Cmon, we all know it's not that people don't like his crime (err, actually, the crime he's accused of planning, not that he actually did) it's that he's Hispanic, and more importantly, Muslim.
If 6 months after OKC Clinton had arrested some trailer-trash white guy named Billy Bob for planning a dirty bomb attack on DC, and done the same stuff to him as has been done to Padilla, people would have gone absolutely bonkers, including the people who think anyone even with the slightest CONCERN about how Padilla is currently being handled is some sort of traitor.
Yes, I KNOW you'd love to believe that our racist, sexist, bigotted and homophobic society is to blame for all its ills, no matter from whence they come, but the truth is the VAST majority of people know the REAL enemy is NOT our government, but those who want to destroy us from WITHOUT. And the best fifth-column that these people have are people like you.