WHAT loss of freedoms?
June 05, 2003 ~ 10:46 p.m.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, the man liberals most wish to assassinate along with President Bush, asked Congress Thursday for expanded anti-terrorism powers to complement the Patriot Act. Under Ashcroft�s proposal, suspected terrorists would be held indefinitely before trials and are eligible for the death penalty or life imprisonment for any terrorist act.
No doubt there are those who will cry and moan about this, people for whom the suspects are more important than average innocent Americans, more than 3,000 of which perished on September 11, 2001�I thought I�d spell the entire date out again since many of you on the Left seem to have forgotten it.
The House Judiciary Committee also witnessed Ashcroft�s desire that the 2001 Patriot Act be expanded to let prosecutors bring charges against anyone who supports or works with suspected terrorist groups as �material supporters.�
You see, our current policies just aren�t enough. Thanks to the whacky world that defense lawyers have created, that�s why Zacarias Moussaoui can successfully challenge the system instead of getting the fatal injection into his arm that he deserves. But despite the loopholes that allow terrorist-scum suspects to spit in our faces and get away with it, Ashcroft noted before the HJC, while holding up copies of al-Qaeda�s written jihad against the United States, that the Patriot Act has helped prevent further terrorist attacks in the U.S.
And to think that I was seriously asked, �If you are such a huge fan of �freedom,� why then have you made no comment on the slicing and dicing of our domestic freedoms?� Surely this reader meant the Patriot Act. Simple�I won�t forget Sept. 11, 2001 and won�t forgive those responsible for it and those who wish for more such attacks. And there are plenty of them, operating in America itself.
As if ordinary Americans have anything to fear. Express sympathy for the terrorists and you just might get your just desserts. Sounds fine by me. If you actually shake in fear of what your government may do to you, then you clearly have a lot to hide.
Well, my closet is clean. Therefore, I fear nothing, certainly not my rights to free speech. Why am I not upset at the �slicing and dicing� of American freedoms? Because there is no such thing. You are either in league with the terrorists or you aren�t, and the Patriot Act is what has been designed to ferret them out. And under the pressure from the Patriot Act, several illegal suspects have cooperated with the Justice Department.
�Since September 11, we have obtained criminal plea agreements, many under seal, from more than fifteen individuals who, according to the agreement and in order to have the agreement carried out, will continue and must continue to cooperate with the government in its investigation of terrorists,� Ashcroft noted.
And while Maxine Waters can crow about the way the Patriot Act has �detained immigrants,� there are those such as the HJC Chairman James Sensenbrenner, who makes Sense when he opines that, �To my mind, the purpose of the Patriot Act is to secure our liberties and not undermine them.�
Like the liberty to live, unlike the poor souls of September 11, 2001?
American civil rights and free speech are not dead. Please cancel all your plans to conduct burial services for them. If we are to conduct a true war on terror, we have got to be serious about it, not tiptoe around for fear of treading on the �rights� of illegal immigrants.
So tell me again why I should be upset about my alleged loss of freedom?
� M.E.M.
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