Here in the US, we believe everyone has a right to an opinion. The right to harm someone, to provoke someone to harm another, or present material which might be used to harm another falls beyond the boundaries of any rights we grant the individual. That fair?
“A standing military force with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” Are the drones to remain beyond the American rule of law? It’s past time to begin to find out.
Either you are a crazy, blood thirsty, seditious militia supporter or you are with the administration. That will be the line in the sand, you will face.
“Yet, in practice, counterterrorism now seems almost like an afterthought in Michigan. The federal government has identified Islamic fundamentalism as the greatest terrorist threat facing the United States. Yet MIOC has no Arabic speakers on staff, according to spokesperson Melody Kindraka. “
J Patrick Bedell and Joe Stack were looking at the “big brother” of the 60′s. They saw a Bush behind every tree plotting to take their freedom.
John Patrick Bedell, was a 911 Truther, an anti-Bush zealot and, just for good measure, anti-military. Bedell was the shooter (terrorist?) who unsuccessfully attempted to storm the Pentagon late yesterday
“It’s that engagement with those local communities that’s going to be the critically important mechanism to detect that radicalization even before they depart,” Brennan said.
He died in vain. His cause is no further down the road than on New Year’s Day 2010.
And who should be making those judgment calls? The American people did not elect Eric Holder to balance the interests of national security and civil liberties. They elected Barack Obama to do that.
‘He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war.’
I am not suggesting we throw out any sense of logic and start arresting and prosecuting people willy nilly. But should we not have people leading our national security agency who has some idea of how law enforcement works.
New York City remains an alluring target for jihadists because of its symbolism. Home to more than 8 million people, it is the largest city in the United States and a global financial and media center.
Several U.S. officials said U.S. intelligence agencies first intercepted communications between Hasan and Awlaki starting in late 2008 as a result of another investigation, and that the information was given to one U.S.-based multi-agency Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTFF) and then to another one based at the Washington Field Office because of Hasan’s assignment at the Walter Reed medical center.
According to this investigative source, HASAN also downloaded material from the web site operated by former Dar al Hijrah mosque leader and terrorist facilitator Anwar Nasser al Awlaki.
One person with knowledge of the weapons said one was a revolver, the other a FN Herstal “Five-seveN”tactical pistol, which one firearms Web site describes as capable of defeating “most body armor in military service around the world today.”
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