Exploiting the Crisis

The Holder Justice Department has found yet another way to harass Americans and avoid doing their job: they're setting up a program they claim is for the sole purpose of combating "extremists" and "terrorism." If you look just a little below the surface, however, what you'll find is yet another excuse to violate the Bill of Rights.

I think I speak for a lot of people in this country when I say that I don't give a Fig Newton if an American citizen wants to go join a bunch of Muslim crazies in the desert. Let 'em go. After a few weeks of baking during the day, freezing at night, eating grain porridge and smelling camel dung, I expect the religious fervor which they kindled from the air conditioned comfort of their living room couch will undergo a metamorphosis into peevish contrition. If they want to return to the comforts of the First World which they so claim to despise after aiding and abetting the enemy, that is when you throw them in jail.

What Gestapenfuhrer Holder is proposing is to put people in jail for talking about doing something illegal, and that leads to places we don't want to go. But they'll sell it to the blank-eyed masses in the uninformed electorate with drivel such as this:

“And we must never lose sight of what violent extremists fear the most: the strength of our communities; our unwavering respect for equality, civil rights, and civil liberties; and our enduring commitment to justice, democracy, and the rule of law.”

Horsefeathers. Our enemies fear Abrams tanks and Marines in a blood frenzy. They don't give a cold-packed damn about any of that mealy-mouthed crap, and they sure as hell don't fear the do-nothing Obama administration.