One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
The Gestapo is Coming, the Gestapo is Coming
We haven’t had another attack since 9/11, the Surge in Iraq is working, the Associated Press has had fewer terrorist incidents to spotlight and feature, so editorial boards such as the Enterprise Record are taking the elitist liberal high road to protect free speech and congratulating the Congressional Democrats for walking out on their 12 day recess and denying the President and the country signing off on the anti-terrorism intelligence bill.
Amazingly, the article seemed to think that a wire-tap request through the snail-like legal system is acceptably speedy and commented that the wire-tap “warrants are almost always approved.” The problem is that, by the three weeks it may take, the opportunity for valuable intelligence against terrorists has passed. The editorial board stated – and I love this one – the warrants are sometimes approved “in the middle of the night.” I assume this phrase is intended to conjure up images of the Gestapo breaking down your door in the middle of the night. This is the same old slippery slope argument the pseudo free speech advocates used when they protected our freedoms by defending internet child pornography. The high-minded progressives are no doubt unconcerned about the 41 class action lawyer enrichment lawsuits pending against the telephone companies who monitored foreign related calls at the request of our intelligence agencies. Anti-business by nature, Liberals are sanguine about the effect upon the companies and uncaring, or unknowing, that the consumers are the poor chumps who will ultimately have to put the money in lawyers’ pockets because of the higher tele-communications costs.