The Washington Poo is right ... we must not infringe on others rights if they haven't committed a crime ... unless they own a gun ... want to fly a confederate flag ... or worship at a Christian Church!
Posted on 06/17/2016 10:58:33 AM PDT by Zakeet
Citizens should not forfeit their rights if they haven't committed a crime.
The massacre at an Orlando LGBT club has predictably provoked the same reaction as past terror attacks: recriminations that authorities should have done more to stop it in advance, accompanied by demands for new police powers to prevent future ones. Blame-assigners immediately pointed to the FBI's investigation of the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen. "The FBI closed this file because the Obama administration treats radical Islamic threats as common crimes," GOP Sen. Lindsey O. Graham argued on Fox News. "If we kept the file open and we saw what he was up to, I think we could have stopped it." Others cited core fundamental rights, demanding they be eroded. "Due process is what's killing us right now," proclaimed Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin about the FBI's inability to act more aggressively against Mateen.
Ever since the Sept. 11 attack almost 15 years ago, every act of perceived terror, and even thwarted ones, have triggered identical responses.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Washington Poo is right ... we must not infringe on others rights if they haven't committed a crime ... unless they own a gun ... want to fly a confederate flag ... or worship at a Christian Church!
Other than Second Amendment rights. If you are on a "no fly list" made up by some bureaucrat, then you can lose those. Oh the irony.
Wrong!!They should have put a stop on him buying guns and they could have arrested him for lying on his forms.
The crime was Islam. Islam is essentially banned in Angola because they know what it is.
The Washington Post is trying to shift the issue. No, the feds didn’t have the right to arrest him. But that’s not the question. The questions are why was he taken off the watch list and how did he ever get security clearance to work for a DHS private contractor.
Did he lie on atf form 4473?
That is true. The bizarre thing is that they couldn't find a crime to indict him for or a cause to have him declared mentally incompetent.
Disney called, “Hey this guy has visited Disneyworld SIX TIMES in the past year...”
Gun store called.
He beat his wife.
He knew suicide-bombers.
He’d traveled abroad for weapons training.
Orlando Shooter Traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2011, 2012: MSNBC
Former Coworker of ISIS Killer Omar Mateen: Employer Did Nothing About His Homophobic-Racist
High School Classmate of Omar Mateen: He Cheered 9-11 Attacks
Elementary school classmate says Omar Mateen was suspended for threatening to go on shooting rampage
Man, you’re fast.
Yep. He had been beating his wife and she had complained.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
Islamofacism is the disease!! E= MC2 is the cure!!
They couldn’t arrest him from a civilian law enforcement perspective. A wartime counter terrorism perspective is a different matter.
Greenwald is also on the team of people that blew the lid off the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program.
If you read the rest of the article, he makes some very good points, and almost says exactly what Ben Franklin said:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I have never seen a media outlet more in the tank for all things leftist as the Compost.
Trump: ‘We just took the press credentials away’ from The Post
June 16, 2016 1:41 PM EDT - Republican Maryland governor Larry Hogan has publicly admitted he isn’t voting for Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Here are the many times Logan has said he won’t back Trump’s run for the White House. (Claritza Jimenez / The Washington Post)
WARNING: Anything you read from Washington Post is probably a lie....
“See something, say something” is all but officially dead.
He didn’t work on a DHS contract, and “watch” lists are GARBAGE when neither the resources nor political will exist to actually watch those on them. All Muslims should be rounded up and interned and/or deported instead!
Glenn Greenwald is a moron if he believes his argument.
Specious unctuous beside the point straw man crap.
No, she only told her family.
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