Patriot Post Asks: Anyone for Terrorist Profiling?

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under Border Control/Homeland Security, War On Terror | 14 Comments

Mark Alexander provides a multiple choice exam in common sense. His intro:
To ensure we Americans never offend anyone — particularly fanatics intent on killing us — law enforcement and security screeners are not allowed to “profile” people in public places or security checkpoints. However, they will continue to perform random searches of 80-year-old women, [...]

ACLU Loses: NYC subway searches OK

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, War On Terror | 8 Comments

Appeals court upholds random NYC subway searches
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of random bag searches by police in America’s busiest subway system to prevent terrorism.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected a challenge to the searches by the New York Civil Liberties Union, saying that [...]

Breaking from Fox News: 40 Arrested in Italy in post Liquid Terror crackdown

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, War On Terror | 3 Comments

Fox News has the latest
LONDON — Police arrested 40 people in cities throughout Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot, the Interior Ministry said Friday, as Pakistani intelligence agents claimed there was an Al Qaeda connection with ties to Afghanistan to the group of [...]

Had the plot been hatched in the US…had the ACLU have known…

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, War On Terror | 2 Comments

A nice rundown of how the Liquid Terror plot was shut down out of Austrlia entitled, “Unearthing the fear growing in England,” brings some thoughts to mind about how the ACLU would have reacted to details of the intelligence operation that saved many lives…or what they would have done to prevent law enforcement and intelligence [...]

UK Agent Infiltrated Suspected Terror Cell That Plotted to Blow Up 10 Jetliners

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, War On Terror | Comments Off

From Friday’s Gribbit Live Broadcast on Wide Awakes Radio
The US Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the United States may have come to within days of another terrorist attack on the scale equal to if not exceeding the September 11th 2001 attacks.
This announcement came just hours after authorities in the United Kingdom arrested 24 [...]

Lazy Post Of The Day

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under Humor, News | Comments Off

I’m not feeling that great today, I still had to drag my sorry butt into work, so my apologies for posting in “a cartoon is worth a thousand words” mode . Have a good week end, all!

Flashback: It’s Pakistan, Stupid!

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 2 Comments

I recently read Paul Sperry’s book, Crude Politics. While highly cricital of some of the Bush administration’s partnerships in the War on Terror, Sperry’s real goal is to wake Americans up to our greatest terrorist threat: Pakistan.
The world may be focused on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and even Saudi Arabia, but the true cradle of terrorism [...]