There is much more to this speech, and if what you've already read worries you, I can assure you -- it gets worse. "Oordered liberty," as described by Dihn, signals the end for American freedom.
The Register link may not be available much longer, so I'd appreciate someone posting a permanent link to the speech.
"I think Edmund Burke puts it best: "The only liberty I mean is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them." In other words, ordered liberty. ...
each and every person detained arising from our investigation into 9/11 has been detained with an individualized predicate - a criminal charge, an immigration violation or a judicially issued material witness warrant. We do not engage in preventive detention. ...
The attorney general's charge to the Department after 9/11 was simple: Think outside the box, but never outside of the Constitution. On the walls of the Department of Justice are inscribed the following words: "Where law ends tyranny begins." John Locke wrote that "the end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom." "
Another - perhaps more relevant - Burke quote is:
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
-- Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful
Why is this person part of the Bush administration?