Comment: Jose Padilla? I thought he came here just to do the jobs that Americans won't do or are too lazy to do. Like nuke the place?
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.
I realize you were cracking wise, but I think your comment was incautious. This story doesn't appear, at this point, to have anything directly to do with Illegals or immigration.
Looks more to me like the issue is the Islamofascist 5th Column in this country, and whether or not current efforts to deal with it are sufficient.
We dodged a dirty nuke this time. What else is out there?
Kevin Ingraham, who was one of the top 10 black Wall Street brokers, was arrested in Florida with two men (I believe Pakistanis from New Jersey) who were trying to buy stinger missiles. He formerly worked for Deutsche Bank and was dismissed, and Jesse Jackson worked out a deal where Ingraham (or Ingram...can't remember the spelling) got several millions of dollars in settlement. I speculated at the time that perhaps Jackson's clout with the third world was actually as an arms dealer.
Liz has the threads on this, I think, and maybe will show up and post links.
More like we dodged the patsy set up for cover of the real operation.
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.
When you prosecute a phony war the citizenry doesn't act like there's a war. A military combatant, known to have conspired to kill Americans is a military matter.
But that's to much common sense for America. We would rather subject ourselves to mass murder than do what is necessary. Witness your figures on the number of Islamist scum entering this nation every day.
There is a chance we will wake up after more 9/11 type attacks but never in history has a nation had it's head so firmly and deeply planted in the sand.
Our present behaviour is worse than suicidal. We're making ancient Rome look good.