Friday, June 21, 2013

The Patriot Peril

These groups should be closely monitored, with resources adequate to the task, even if it means shifting some homeland security money from the hunt for foreign terrorists. [More]
SPLC said it, LA Times repeated it, that settles it...

Or does it?  The poll would seem to indicate a grassroots/AstroTurf disconnect...

Funny how the "progressives" are all indignant when they're the ones being spied on, but all for it if it's done against those they demand be controlled.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To paraphrase the immortal Col. Flagg from MASH, "We're going to make sure you stay loyal to the country that's going to hound your every step".



-Mike O'thelake

Ed said...

The author refers to "cells of angry men". How sexist! As Abigail Adams once wrote to her husband John, while he was on business completely alien to the author's comprehension, "remember the ladies".

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/suffrage/abigail.htm