It’s not about harm. It’s about hype. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, every year heart disease kills two hundred times more Americans than terrorist attacks killed in the peak year of 2001. In other years, heart disease deaths are hundreds of thousands of times more numerous than terrorism deaths. Yet year [...]
Christine O’Donnell wants federal government bureaucrats in the Executive Branch to have the power to declare people to be terrorists, without trial.
On June 24, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas took to the floor of the House to explain why the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution needs to be canceled so that people born in the USA can be stripped of their citizenship: There are people coming into this country who want to destroy our way [...]
Last week, Republican Representative Candice Miller of Michigan issued a statement on the reauthorization of Patriot Act provisions to “sneak and peek” into Americans’ communications and possessions without probable cause: The provisions in the Patriot Act provide critical tools to our national security and law enforcement agents to better combat terrorism and protect our nation. [...]
Under Congressman Sam Johnson’s system, if someone in the government with an axe to grind, or some law enforcement bureaucrat who made a simple error, accused you of being a terrorist, you would be doomed.
In Lamar Smith’s imagination, everyone who is accused of a crime is guilty, and constitutional rights are for wimps. Congressman Smith is betting that his constituents back in Texas agree with him, and will reward his blunt, get tough without trial, approach to the law.
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