These 26 are obviously way smarter and more CONSERVATIVE than the TWO HUNDRED TEN GOP members that voted to FIGHT THE RAGHEADS.
Homeland Security decided to expand what constitutes a terrorist beyond Islamic terrorism. They are creating a KGB spying operation on Americans - not just Islamists. Crime is now called terrorism.
When they started randomly sexually molesting obviously innocent people at the airports, and the handicapped (the old lady with the pacemaker setting off the metal detector) that was it for me. I don’t want to live in a prison Nation.
While they are classifing Americans they don’t like - conservatives - as domestic terrorists, they have the border wide open knowing Islamic terrorists are crossing the borders and knowing that they have access to nuclear material and biological weapons.
Our President hosts the Muslim Brotherhood at White House events and has hired some into the Executive Branch. The MB is responsible for creating all these terrorist groups we supposedly being protected from. And what about Fort Hood? Political correctness protected a murderous jihadist everyone knew was dangerous RIGHT IN THE ARMY. Homeland security is not focused on Islamic terrorism nor is our government committed to protecting us from Islam.
Our government is too stupid (Republican influence) and evil (Democrat influence) to be trusted with that power. They turned it against Americans in the name of fighting Islam. We gave it a try, trusting the government to not abuse us with the power of the Patriot Act. That trust was totally violated.
Interesting statement. Am I to presume that "fighting the ragheads" is wrong-headed? And that taking proper precautions in wartime -- vs even "ragheads" -- is a bad idea?
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with laws that are designed to secure the public safety in wartime -- particularly if that war may be fought on your own soil.
The problem is not the law, it is the people that we have elected to enforce it. Just as it's not guns that kill people; people kill people.
The real message in this dispute is about the value of character in our elected officials.
thanks for adding some sanity to the thread. There is ample evidence that tools like this are not used to target “RAGHEADS”, in someone’s cartoon image of the world. We see such “RAGHEADS” ushered through security all the time while non-RAGHEAD grandmothers get searched. The right tool to fight terrorism is smart people with direct contact at the border or a cop on the street. They already know everything they need to know to stop terrorism although no system is going to be perfect. The Patriot Act, lazy-cop tools are used to build entrapment cases from 1000 miles away and send a few irrelevant and stupid flunkies to the pen. The smart ones are not going to be caught by a roving wiretap.