Posted on 01/08/2010 12:44:29 PM PST by ksm1
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The previous day, the State Department announced that his visa had been revoked. The system worked. Well, it did for Abdulmutallab. What he lost in flying privileges he gained in Miranda rights. He was singing quite freely when seized after trying to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit. But the Obama administration decided to give him a lawyer and the right to remain silent. We are now forced to purchase information from this attempted terrorist in the coin of leniency.
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If I didn’t know differently I would swear someone is trying to shut him up. All of this is exactly what you would do if someone were talking and you didn’t want him talking. Why is it that nearly everything we see being done these days in the name of fighting terrorists seems to work in their favor. It’s starting to look like someone at a high level is more interested in the well being of our enemies than our citizens.
Like my Mom used to say, don’t listen to what they say, look at what they do!
As usual, he was DEAD ON with this commentary. I personally believe that if (when?) there is another attack and if it can be proven that the panty bomber had the info ... then the whole administration should be held as directly accountable for the deaths of Americans ... deaths they could have prevented without this naive "ideological" approach to terrorism.
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