Posted on 03/18/2013 6:39:52 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
Your source sounds awfully Lefty .... knocking COINTELPRO ... "constitutionally protected ideological groups" = ones being run by KGB Active Measures .... "on the basis of a secret legal standard that has never been disclosed": How about NSA decrypts of KGB intercepts, naming names and groups and outlining plans to grow an Obama in the ranks of the New Mobe and the SDS?
And profiling sounds pretty damned good to me, when applied to fanatical-to-the-death raggies bent on mass murder. How about you? In the Philippines in 1903, we shot people like that out of hand. It worked. You want to get all mooshy on them, and link up with Kunstler's crowd to strap on Shrub and Big Dick?
That was then, but how about those techniques applied to conservatives? Remember that after Timothy McVeigh in ‘95, the feds openly classified lots of conservative movements right alongside terrorist groups, and 9-11 did not change that one bit.
At no point did W. Bush tell them that conservatives were no threat to the US. So much of the Patriot Act is used today to spy on conservatives.
Is Obama building? GW Bush started it. Department of Homeland Security sounded like “Stasi” when I first heard it.
The same guys who can’t protect our borders and missed the 9/11 attack get even more power and authority?
He's from Midland and has a great Texas wife. I don't know what his problem is with conservatives. His ma and pa and Yale faculty must have done a hell of a job convincing him that we are all Spawn of Satan, Kluxers in street clothes. (George Sr. has always hated, just hated, conservative Democrats for that reason -- they're all trailer-trash Kluxers to him.)
Now the Left wants to herd us into extermination camps, and the GOP-E looks on all this with cold eyes and holds Sarah Palin in contempt, one of the best women in American public life today, because she has a regional accent and has shot and cleaned big animals with her husband, whose children she bore for richer or poorer.
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