Breaking: John Ashcroft says U.S. disrupted plans to attack U.S. with "dirty" radiation bomb.

[Dales]

Breaking now. Details shortly

[janetgreen]

People Nation and Folk Nation

Isn't is reassuring to know that we have such fine young men in our midst? The future of America? Their parents must be SO proud....

[Joe Hadenuf]

Can you imagine everyone in the neighborhood hating your guts and wanting to kill you, yet all the doors and windows are left wide open?

So if we kick out all non-citizens right now and close our borders, but a terrorist attack by a native born American of non-Arab descent succeeds, the government should have done....what, exactly to prevent it? It's happened here before.

Hey cake crumb how you doing!! Did you see what the first lady was wearing today? Gorgeous!!

Yes, you are right cake crumb, lets just continue to leave all the doors and windows open. Why should we bother! Some gray haired old lady will get us anyway.

[cake_crumb]

Whatever happened with that case? Since the short -maybe a week- media frenzy after her arrest for passing messages from a terrorist to his colleagues on the outside, there has been nothing that I know of.

[mercy]

I thought I heard he was originally from the Philipines.

[Dave S]

It's my understanding that Padilla is a citizen. What evidence do you have that he is an immigrant? He could very well have been born here.

He is a citizen. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Chicago when he was 4.

[Chemist_Geek]

You want to bet that if an RDD was set of in any major city in these states these Congressional delegations would not think twice about relaxing the standards........

Y'know, they might just not want to. Look at it this way: Those lands would be "set free" from human presence, which some environmentalists consider a curse upon the Earth. I could see a few Congresscritters pushing for no cleanup, just let it be and let Nature heal it.

On the other hand, though, the rest of the delegations would see it as a wonderful way to get more Federal dollars for their states, and would be pushing for a "cleanup" tax and so forth. They have to get in on the victimillionaire lottery, don'cha'know?

[Let's Roll]

Sweet

[Dales]

I have not seen any compelling evidence that government is expanding, and the expansion thereof to combat terrorism has not been shown to me to be unreasonable, despite the fact that I consider government expansion to generally be a bad thing.

And frankly, a little bit more concentration and coordination of the efforts being used to combat terrorism probably was called for in the case of, and might even have prevented, 9/11.

[mercy]

****So if we kick out all non-citizens right now and close our borders, but a terrorist attack by a native born American of non-Arab descent succeeds, the government should have done....what, exactly to prevent it? It's happened here before.****

Once upon a time the FBI had every subversive organization in America infiltrated. And the CIA was actually able to find it's butt with both hands. We need to reinvigorate these agencies.

[Grampa Dave]

Typical mediot burying of the case. If they went after her, her slimey tracks would lead back to Ramsey Clark, Jake Reno and probably the Hilldebeast as a lawyeretter post watergate stuff.

This is one of the major reasons, it so important to have a viable Free Republic to keep track of clymers like the Opecker Poster Boy Lawyer, Ramsey Clark and those whom crawl around in his anti America/American slime.

[Thud]

Check out a Readers' Digest story from about five years ago titled: "The Radioactive Boy Scout". He bought hundreds or thousands of old lanterns, laboriously scraped off the thorium, and built an almost functional breeder reactor in a back shed. The neighbors were mighty surprised when NEST teams in moon suits started poking around the neighborhood.

[LouD]

For a citizen caught on US soil?

Conspiracy with a foreign power to commit an act of war against the United States ought to be grounds for revocation of citizenship...

[Grampa Dave]

You just became Hugh for awhile then?

[PoisedWoman]

our enemy may not always be an arab

I caught conservative Ken Hamblin's ("The Black Avenger") talk show right after 911, and he and a guest went on and on about how many "bruthahs" in jail right now were converting to Islam and would love to blow up the USA. Millions, they said. Scary!

[mercy]

Cut the welfare bureaucracy in half and double the military, Cia and FBI. We'll still have less government and it'll be a better world.

[cake_crumb]

"I fully expect the ACLU to have him taken from military custody and tried in the criminal courts. Thus reducing his punishment to no more than deportation probably."

Deport him where? He was born in this country.

"When you prosecute a phony war the citizenry doesn't act like there's a war"

Sure seems a real enough war to me...unless you're in the camp that says Congress' insistance that the president go to war but not ask the Congress to write a writ in case the war didn't work out well makes what we did and are mopping up in Afghanistan to be a police action...

[PoppingSmoke]

"Check out a Readers' Digest story from about five years ago titled: "The Radioactive Boy Scout". He bought hundreds or thousands of old lanterns, laboriously scraped off the thorium, and built an almost functional breeder reactor in a back shed. The neighbors were mighty surprised when NEST teams in moon suits started poking around the neighborhood."

I rememeber this incident. Yep it can sure wreck ones day when NEST shows up nall of a sudden. So to those who think a dirty bomb is a myth this is a good read. Thank God, this did put a scare into DOE. The likely hood of this happening now is remote. But heck it was only five years ago and I am sure AQ is a little smarter that your average Boy Scout.

[cake_crumb]

AHHHHGH!! Sorry. After reading you answer, and RE-reading your question....no, I didn't mean to say that.

There will NOT be as many terrorists in this country if we deport all Arabs and all hyphenated Arabs from other countries like Britain.

( **slapping self upside the head** )

[Dave S]

Could he be from the Philippines?

No, he is a native born American Citizen. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Chicago when he was 4.