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

Posted on August 11, 2006

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 agencies from carrying out what turned out to be life-saving measures to protect REAL innocent people.

…from unremarkable houses in East London, a leafy town in Buckinghamshire and Birmingham, 24 young British residents, mostly of Pakistani background, were arrested early on Thursday after being under MI5 surveillance for more than a year.

Surely the ACLU would have argued they were innocent victims of “racial profiling.”

It was in the aftermath of the London Underground bombings in July last year that attention was drawn to the group when a member of the Muslim community became suspicious about an acquaintance’s behaviour.

This “member” must be a racist Bush operative.

Intelligence officers placed bugs and phone taps in the homes of some young men and began listening carefully.

The administration has no respect for the 4th Amendment! This is an invasion of privacy, every innocent American is threatened! This is “illegal spying!”

Some sources believe the plan was being timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.

This is proof that the Bush Administartion is trying to politicize terrorism. (Gratuitous shot at the Koshevics and Huffers, not the ACLU)

Last December, MI5 called in the British police to mount an even larger surveillance operation. Officers and agents began watching the alleged plotters and following them.

Further erosion of civil liberties reminiscent of Nazi Germany! Did they follow them to a mosque?

They found out who they spoke to and what meetings they attended.

McCarthyism! Next they’ll check their library records! Oh, the horror!

Their spending habits and bank accounts were tracked by a special anti-terrorism unit that discovered some of the alleged plotters had access to unusually large amounts of money, well out of keeping with their incomes.

This is an illegal breach of privacy rights guranteed by the Constitution.

After two Britons of Pakistani descent were arrested in Pakistan nearly two weeks ago, some British Government sources believe a message was sent to the suspected terrorists in Britain, saying: “Do your attacks now.”

Racial profiling, illegal rendition, illegal surveillance.

Substantial sums of money are alleged to have been wired from Pakistan to two of the alleged ringleaders so that they could purchase airline tickets.

“Illegal” invasion of private financial records.

“We have been looking at meetings, movements, travel, spending and the aspirations of a large group of people. This has involved close co-operation, not only between agencies and police forces in the United Kingdom, but also internationally. As is so often the case in these investigations, the alleged plot has global dimensions.”

Internationally…hmmmmmm…they may yet have a chance to defend some “innocent” people in America who may be named in the “illegal international dragnet that threatens the civil liberties of a minority community.” If anyone wants to dismiss this as hyperbole, you are willfully blind — the ACLU’s track record makes my case for me.

Bottom line — the ACLU does everything it can to make us less safe. Why I don’t know.

» Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, War On Terror

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2 Responses to “Had the plot been hatched in the US…had the ACLU have known…”

mattm on August 11th, 2006 6:54 pm

To find the reason why the ACLU opposed ways to make us safe, all we need to do is to look to the reason why it was founded, end the current US government and impliment Communism.
gfactor on August 12th, 2006 9:39 pm

“The administration has no respect for the 4th Amendment! This is an invasion of privacy, every innocent American is threatened! This is “illegal spying!””

Actually the brits did it legally.