"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." "
Fundamental to the rule of law is the concept of ordered liberty.
That is a bad premise, and it leads Dinh to several dialectic and faulty conclusions that seriously threaten American freedom as we know it.