President Bush commemorated the September 11, 2001 attacks yesterday by calling for increased measures to investigate, detain and, if need be, kill those suspected of terrorist activity. Yes, you heard correctly. He wants to expand the USA PATRIOT Act because, apparently, it did not go far enough to deprive individuals from (or appearing to be from) the Middle East their rights:

President Bush, in a speech marking today's anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, called on Congress Wednesday to "untie the hands of our law enforcement officials" by expanding authorities' ability to probe and detain terrorism suspects.

Hailing the passage of the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which expanded federal police powers, Bush said those changes did not go far enough. He called for empowering authorities in terrorist investigations to issue subpoenas without going to grand juries, to hold suspects without bail and to pursue the death penalty in more cases. (via the Washington Post)

Next thing we know, he's going to ask Congress for the authority to just shoot brown people on sight.