Bushism vs. Liberty

Glenn Greenwald revisits today the theme that gets his ire up every time -- insistence of the ruling party that the president has the power to imprison ANYBODY, citizen or not, on his say-so only (no proof required). What is particularly striking this time is the quote he uses from Churchill, the icon of many of these same authoritarian Republicans:

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgement by his peers for an indefinite period, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments whether Nazi or Communist.

Is this not obvious? The Churchillian rhetoric renders the importance of liberty not only self-evident, but starkly names what it is called when the power of the executive trumps all.