advocatusdiaboli
05-09-2010, 8:30 AM
From a Reuters article...
"What do the late Senator Edward Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Sam Adams, aged 5, have in common? They have all been on one of America’s terrorist watch lists and found it was easier to get on than off."
"What will be happening with the watch lists seems clear: they will grow because of the nature of Washington bureaucracies whose mode of operation include the principle of CYA (Cover Your ***). In other words, there is little downside for officials who err on the side of adding too many names but there is a lot for letting an Abdulmutallab slip through."
The terrorists are winning as we disassemble our freedoms and rights one by one. They didn't even need to kill many of us--compared to Israel in size, we have lost far fewer. 9-11 killed 1/10 of the number of people we kill in auto accidents every single year- and 1/10 of the number who die from the flu in the US every year. Yet, we are so concerned, we are throwing away our fundamental rights and liberties.
We can and we should fight terrorists and try to prevent their actions, but not at the cost of what makes us great and makes us free.
[URL="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/05/08/the-trouble-with-u-s-terrorist-watch-lists/"/the-trouble-with-u-s-terrorist-watch-lists[/URL]
"What do the late Senator Edward Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Sam Adams, aged 5, have in common? They have all been on one of America’s terrorist watch lists and found it was easier to get on than off."
"What will be happening with the watch lists seems clear: they will grow because of the nature of Washington bureaucracies whose mode of operation include the principle of CYA (Cover Your ***). In other words, there is little downside for officials who err on the side of adding too many names but there is a lot for letting an Abdulmutallab slip through."
The terrorists are winning as we disassemble our freedoms and rights one by one. They didn't even need to kill many of us--compared to Israel in size, we have lost far fewer. 9-11 killed 1/10 of the number of people we kill in auto accidents every single year- and 1/10 of the number who die from the flu in the US every year. Yet, we are so concerned, we are throwing away our fundamental rights and liberties.
We can and we should fight terrorists and try to prevent their actions, but not at the cost of what makes us great and makes us free.
[URL="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/05/08/the-trouble-with-u-s-terrorist-watch-lists/"/the-trouble-with-u-s-terrorist-watch-lists[/URL]