It's True ~ The Terrorists Are Hiding Under Your Beds

Poster: Old American Century


Red Alert! Red Alert! This news bulletin from Bushco Reelectus campaign, one of many to come:









See, we toldja we need to invade the privacy of every single person on earth to protect you from the Evil Demon Terrorists, & we’ve proved it now.

1. In today’s news (& look for more of same in the months leading up to the November elections) a report that the FBI, by monitoring internet chatrooms, has thwarted a plot to attack the New York transit system. Never mind that it likely wouldn’t have caused the damage the would-be terrorists intended it would—the point of this exercise is to prove that all this spying’s for your own good.

Well, far be it from Demon Princess to try to say monitoring terrorists’ activities here & abroad is not a good thing. It IS a good thing, & even I admit that. Someday they might catch a terrorist who’s not only dangerous, but who has hatched a plot that might stand more than a snowball’s chance in hell of actually being carried out (unlike the Miami Seven) or actually being effective (unlike these guys today).

So they should do the spying legally—by coughing up whatever evidence they have of an actual connection to terrorism, as opposed to those of us who are merely excercising their First Amendment rights of dissent.

And bonus—the taxpayers won’t have to pay for the privilege of being spied on.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/433163p-364959c.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/433067p-364908c.html

2. Also in the news today: on the first anniversary of the London bombing, extreme hard-liners (Heritage Foundation) are calling upon the UK to withdraw from the European Union Human Rights agreement, more control of immigration, & deportation of Muslim religious leaders who “preach hate.”
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm1145.cfm