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Put ACLU On Watch
IBD Editorials ^ | July 25, 2008

Posted on 07/25/2008 6:12:07 PM PDT by Kaslin

Homeland Security: Forced to defend its growing terrorist watch list, the FBI let slip a chilling fact that should silence ACLU grumblers: America is teeming with 20,000 terrorists.


After 9/11, federal authorities estimated that as many as 5,000 terrorists were living in the U.S. The new figure is jarring not only because it's four times as large but because it's based on real persons, not estimates.

It's not something headquarters wanted to publicize. Officials had downplayed the threat so as not to spook the public. The spin had been that Britain has the homegrown problem, not us.

But that was before the ACLU launched a campaign with the Democrat Congress to demonize the watch list as a Gestapo-like tool. The FBI had no choice but to knock down their myths.

The ACLU charged that an "out-of-control" FBI is adding mostly innocent people to the list, ballooning it to "over 1 million names." "I doubt this thing would even be effective at catching a real terrorist," ACLU spokesman Barry Steinhardt harrumphed.

In fact, the list has saved countless lives, according to the head of the FBI's terrorism screening center — an assertion backed up by a recent independent review by the GAO.

And the watch list monitors only 400,000 people, not a million, says the FBI official, Leonard Boyle. The rest are aliases due to the myriad spellings and variations of Arabic surnames.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aclu; bobbarr; homelandsecurity; jihadinamerica; mohammedanism; sideshowbob; waronterror; waronterrorism; wot
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1 posted on 07/25/2008 6:12:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Rather they be on life support ... with a ‘Do Not Resuscitate Notation’.


2 posted on 07/25/2008 6:13:31 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Kaslin

Give the ACLU lawyers the Lynne F. Stewart treatment.


3 posted on 07/25/2008 6:33:43 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.)
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To: Kaslin

*ACLU launched a campaign with the Democrat Congress to demonize the watch list as a Gestapo-like tool*

Leading this is ACLU emloyee Bob Barr along with the other
Third Party WackOs Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin.
All Useful Idiots for the far left.


4 posted on 07/25/2008 6:36:13 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: SoCalPol

ping


5 posted on 07/25/2008 6:46:40 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
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To: Kaslin

I am sure the idiots on the left will call these terrorists “minute men” and “heroic revolutionaries” instead of what they really are. These morons will then look in bewildered horror as the terrorists bomb and behead said leftists.

The less insane, but no less cowardly on the left will soil their pants plan how they will surrender.

The politicians on the left will, after years of stabbing America’s defenders and President Bush (proven correct yet again) in the back will blame it all on.... America’s defenders and President Bush. They will also calculate how to retain power when they surrender America.

The rational and intelligent among the left (mainly those who were Dems because their family always and now find little in common with the Dems) will gulp and realize that the Democrats have, yet again, betrayed America.


6 posted on 07/25/2008 6:55:46 PM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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To: Kaslin; PhilDragoo; Calpernia; null and void; potlatch
Forced to defend its growing terrorist watch list, the FBI let slip a chilling fact that should silence ACLU grumblers: America is teeming with 20,000 terrorists.

reminds me of what 'somebody' said:

“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Barack Obama, “The Audacity of Hope”, page 261.

Ok Barry, are you going to 'stand with' the 20,000 on the FBI Watchlist?

7 posted on 07/25/2008 7:00:47 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: JessieHelmsJr

Oh, the one who thinks McCain is an idiot.
When was the last time you and the useful idiots flew a jet off an AirCraft carrier or landed a jet on one.

When was the last time you and the useful idiots spent 5 years as a POW being tortured.


8 posted on 07/25/2008 7:03:01 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: SoCalPol

McCain/Feingold

McCain/Kennedy

McCain’s Opposition to the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts: McCain aligned with liberal heavyweights like Ted Kennedy

etc.etc.etc.

LMAO@u


9 posted on 07/25/2008 7:11:21 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
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To: JessieHelmsJr

At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention, he apologized for the part of the Defense of Marriage Act which prevents the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages ( Barr supports same sex marriage)

More recently, Barr has become a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union, sometimes doing paid consulting on privacy issues.

Fought to prevent State and local law enforcement from going after illegals saying it was a ‘federal only’ responsibility

Bob Barr is for amnesty.

Barr had acquiesced to his then-wife having an abortion in 1983. He had also invoked a legal privilege during his 1985 divorce proceeding so he could refuse to answer questions on whether he’d cheated on his second wife with the woman who is now his third.”


The third party pretends Obama will close the border and will put Conservative judges up.
The third party pretends SDS Marxists Bill Ayers and Berdene Dohrn are June and Ward Clever
The third party pretends Marxist Rev. Wright is Billy Graham
The third party pretends Obama will be the conservative
they always wanted.


10 posted on 07/25/2008 7:23:06 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: Navy Patriot

“Give the ACLU lawyers the Lynne F. Stewart treatment.”

Yep.

“And some leftists have already gone into direct action. Radical leftist Attorney Lynne Stewart was convicted this year for becoming a message courier between her client, convicted terrorist Sheik Abdul Rahman, the first World Trade Center bomber, and terror groups in the Middle East.”

excerpt http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050715a.aspx


11 posted on 07/25/2008 7:27:04 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: All

Many folks think the aclu protects liberties, rather than takes them away.

Write a letter to the editor to your home town newspaper.


12 posted on 07/25/2008 7:28:15 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: SoCalPol

What do you think I am voting for Barr? Are you smoking crack? I will hold my nose and vote for McCain. No doubt about it. But he IS the lesser of the two evils and everybody who is a true conservative knows this.


13 posted on 07/25/2008 7:40:59 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
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To: Fred Nerks; Kaslin; null and void; potlatch; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave

Hussein stood with first cousin Raila Odinga--Does he love the smell of burning Christians in the morning?

14 posted on 07/25/2008 7:47:25 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: JessieHelmsJr

Your posts are the same mantra of the third party wackOs
which gives that conclusion.

You can see by my tagline who my candidate was but will vote for McCain as Obama the Marxist is not a choice.


15 posted on 07/25/2008 8:08:23 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: SoCalPol

What for calling him an idiot for agreeing with Hussein? The MSM is already saying that Bush and McCain are agreeing with Hussein Osama on Iraq timetable and negotiating with Iran. Why give them more ammo? The way he has run his campaign so far is sh*t. And for your info I was for Hunter or Thompson but that doesn’t seem to be a choice right now.


16 posted on 07/25/2008 8:26:58 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
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To: PhilDragoo

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200801/r214082_828024.jpg
Elections Kenya-style.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/FredNerks/Obama_and_Odinga.jpg
A little support from a friend.

http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8
Sharia in Kenya.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/FredNerks/RailaMania.jpg
No Raila, No Peace.

NO OMABA NO PEACE?


17 posted on 07/25/2008 8:35:14 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Velveeta; Calpernia

Ping.


18 posted on 07/25/2008 8:40:24 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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To: Fred Nerks; Kaslin; Ernest_at_the_Beach; potlatch; devolve; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP

19 posted on 07/25/2008 10:08:04 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
Wow!

Did he help burn any of the churches with the Christians inside also??

He looks like he's in his element, doesn't he?

20 posted on 07/28/2008 8:46:19 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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