Posted on 06/17/2013 6:12:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Fighting terrorism? Don't be a chump. Excuses usually trade on something very important and genuine. But what is truly important can be abused, precisely because it should impress us. Government tries to fool us with phony excuses to do whatever officials and bureaucrats want to do.
The NSA, et al., failed to detect the Tsarnaev brothers -- even after being tipped off by Russia -- before the Boston Marathon bombing. FBI agents actually investigated the Tsarnaev family in detail. Russia's tip would justify continuing, specific search warrants and phone taps. Yet the NSA and FBI never saw the bumbling brothers coming. They were not exactly James Bonds. Yet they weren't detected.
Advance warning of the attacks in Benghazi? Fast and Furious? We could go on and on. So is the Obama Administration really trying all that hard to fight terrorism?
In the law, there is a precise test for exposing a "pretext." If actual behavior clashes with the claimed reason for an action by government or an employer, the conflict may convince us that the claimed purpose is fake -- a "pretext" or phony excuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Real security means secure borders and ending the pro muslim immigration policies.
NSA is to security as Obamacare is to health.
And, of course, let us not forget that Iran gave up their nuclear ambitions YEARS ago.
National security and the security of the people have been the excuse for every tyrannical act ever committed by a leader or government.
Why do you hate America?
(Standard response to anyone questioning the PATRIOT Act back when it was passed. Horse, barn door, etc.)
Benjamin Franklin had it right. “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
NSA - “We’re going to put a camera up your butt”
Citizen - “NO!”
NSA - “What do you have to hide?? Are you for colon cancer??!”
The time for high dudgeon was a month after 9/11 when these laws were being passed by Congress. Instead, we gave it up like a drunk prom date.
“The Bush Administration was publicly crucified — even by many conservatives — for monitoring international phone calls of specific, named individuals suspected of terrorism. The Obama Administration is snooping on everyone indiscriminately — entirely within the domestic United States.”
Third time makes a pattern?
The Bush administration allowed enhanced interrogation of three known terrorists. The Obama administration kills many suspected terrorists.
The Bush administration puts GPS on a few guns sold in Mexico, so that they can be tracked. The Obama administration sells many guns in Mexico, without tracking devices.
The liberal reply to any of these topics is “Don’t go there. This program was started under President Bush.”
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