- The Bush Regime's "terrorist" protection schemes
have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According
to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends
the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one
million names on the "terrorist" watch list.
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- One of them is that of former Assistant US Attorney General
Jim Robinson, whose top security clearances are current. Every time Mr.
Robinson flies away on business, he is delayed by a totally incompetent
"terrorist" protection racket that cannot tell a person named
Jim Robinson, who served in the highest echelons of the US government,
from a Muslim terrorist.
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- What confidence can we have in a regime that is incapable
of differentiating an Assistant US Attorney General from a terrorist?
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- Mr. Robinson said: "If I were convinced that America
is a safer place because I get hassled at the airport, I might put up with
it, but I doubt it. I expect my story is similar to hundreds of thousands
of people who are on this list and find themselves inconvenienced."
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- "Hundreds of thousands of people" on a watch
list that they have no business being on?
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- Yes. "Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and
other 'suspicious characters,' with names like Robert Johnson and Gary
Smith, have become trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with
little hope of escape," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the
ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
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- And this is America, not Nazi Germany?
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- How can Airport "Security" possibly protect
anyone when the idiots cannot differentiate a high level American government
official from a terrorist?
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- Do you really believe there are one million terrorists
and nothing has blown up in the US since September 11, 2001 (assuming you
believe the government's account of that episode)?
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- How can there possibly be 1,000,000 terrorists and America
still be in one piece? If there were 1,000,000 terrorists, America would
be in ruins. According to the Bush Regime's line, it only took a handful
of terrorists to destroy America's tallest skyscrapers and a section of
the Pentagon and to send the President of the United States scurrying to
a hiding place.
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- One million terrorists could bring America to its knees,
and they wouldn't need to fly on airplanes to accomplish this.
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- What we are witnessing with the one million person "watch
list" is bureaucracy run amok. One Million Terrorists makes the danger
seem overwhelming. Such overwhelming danger rationalizes the aggressive
behavior of the bullies and thugs attracted by the power of confiscating
your toothpaste and bottled water and riffling your belongings in your
luggage.
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- Show your ID.
- Take off your shoes.
- Take off your belt.
- Take off your jacket.
- Empty your pockets.
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- Don't complain about being searched without a warrant
or you will miss your flight. You might be arrested, handcuffed, kicked
and otherwise abused the fate of many American citizens.
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- The morons who comprise the US government call the "watch
list" one of the government's "most effective tools in the fight
against terrorism."
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- What an effective tool it is! It cannot tell the difference
between Jim Robinson and a Muslim terrorist.
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- The "watch list" has not apprehended a single
terrorist, but thousands of American citizens have been inconvenienced
and arrested.
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- The ACLU says that "putting a million names on a
watch list is a guarantee that the list will do more harm than good by
interfering with the travel of innocent people and wasting huge amounts
of our limited security resources on bureaucratic wheel-spinning."
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- It is worse than that. What the "watch list"
or "no-fly list" is doing is training Americans to submit to
warrantless searches, to abandon their constitutional rights, and to submit
to humiliation by thugs and bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have
no qualms about searching and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse
to delay or arrest them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power
and to submit to arbitrary power. In the false name of "safety from
terrorists," Americans are being made the least safe people on earth.
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