watch lists are fundamentally in Contradiction to the constitution.
Imagine you not being able to buy a pen or cell phone, or publish an article, because you are on a watch list.
the same thing will happen to watch lists that happened to DHS. They will be co-opted by so-called liberals to restrict further the rights of ordinary American citizens, while traitors, illegal aliens, and people of certain protected so-called faiths skate.
I hope that Republicans in Congress realize this and don’t throw away freedoms for temporary feelings of security. And what happens when the next jihadist terrorism occurs? Yet more ratcheting of freedoms?
Restricting our existing freedoms is equivalent to blaming ourselves. The blame here is in the White House and a Congress that has failed to curb excessive immigration of people who continually demonstrate their refusal to assimilate by terrorist atrocities.
The Republicans are in on it; remember the Patriot Act? Remember the [in]action regarding the NSA's domestic espionage, or the [in]action with Fast and Furious, or the [in]action with Benghazi? Remember how they [didn't] oppose popping off the debt ceiling? How they continue to increase spending through these sketchy "omnibus" bills?
Seriously, given the actions of the past decade, what makes you think that a Republican would be any better than a democrat based on party affiliation?