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Thursday, June 09, 2005
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Making his case today President Bush called for the renewal of those provisions that are set to expire. (Reuters) Obviously, he said, the terrorists' threat will not expire so it should not only be renewed but made permanent. He stated that over 400 arrests of terrorists have been made in the United States since the act was passed. So far, there have been zero abuses of its provisions. Do you think it's important to stop what 400 terrorists could potentially have accomplished? The common thread in the opposition to the Patriot Act is their fear that it will be abused. If you follow this logic to it's ultimate conclusion, they hold to the notion that we would be better off dead without the Patriot Act than to effectively deal with the real threats at hand. This perverse denial of reality defies reason. The reality is, there are people who want to kill us. The reality is, it's going to take physical intervention to stop an attack from occurring. The reality is, shredding a document called the Patriot Act will pretty much guarantee that physical intervention will not occur. How would these people answer this question? Knowing that the enemy is in 68 countries and still in the United States, and knowing that they need money to operate, and knowing they use electronics to communicate, and knowing they fly airplanes, and have in fact used them to kill, and have hundreds of other ways to kill us, and will if given the chance: What would you do that would enable the government to pre-empt an attack here in the United States, better than what the Patriot Act can? You simply have to draw the line that yes, we are a free people, but we are not free to kill.
To Believe This
Is To Ignore This
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Everyone should watch this video of an Islamist demonstration/recruiting session in which various indignities are inflicted on an American flag. Exhortations are shouted to the watching crowd in both English and Arabic. My favorite part is when the leader of the terrorists says something like, "Don’t be afraid...we have a legal permit...come and join us...don’t be afraid to speak out...This is not like the countries back at home where you raise your voice against the government and they take you in for torture. No...this is one of the loopholes of this government. We have the right to put this flag down and step on it."
I guess they haven't been fooled by all that "Gulag" talk. Their idea that the First Amendment is a "loophole" is one that seems to be shared by some on the American left.
World Net Daily has much more on the demonstration and the group that sponsored it.
Via Michelle Malkin. [Power Line]
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