That thinking is so 9/10. Screw the terrorists.
That thinking is so 9/10.
I know that Dubya must have you just quivering in your shoes, absolutely sick with fear about another terrorist attack, but neither your fear nor Dubya's willingness to feed your fear, for his own ends, is justification for violating our nation's most sacred law - the Constitution.
The Constitution is there to protect EVERY US citizen - not just those US citizens who think like you.
If the government were to falsely accuse you of burglary, murder or even terrorism, the Constitution is was there to protect you. It insures insured you that you have had certain rights under the law, including the right to an attorney and the right to have your arguments heard by an impartial Court. Thanks to Dubya and th' boyz, neither Jose Padilla nor you nor I any longer have those rights. If John Ashcroft, at Dubya's behest and without any oversight from the Court or any other impartial branch of government, issues a National Security Letter, you, I or ANY US citizen can now be arrested and held incommunicado for as long as Dubya and Ashcroft wants and the arrested party has no recourse. Since you seem to have forgotten your US history, that's exactly the kind of lack of due process and single-point law, focused then on King George III (Hanover), that our forefathers were escaping, when they created this great nation and signed our Constitution back in 1776. Now, you and others, who have bought into Dubya's fear mongering, would have us cede our rights to a new King George (Bush).
Your thinking is just so 1775.