" For every evil under the sun there is a remedy ...
December 03 2007 06:47 PM Cynthia Rosenberry
As if the Military Commissions Act of 2006 wasn't injury enough, now THIS>>
Thank Knoxville Rep. John Duncan for voting against H.R. 1955: the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. Ask Corker and Lamarr to vote against it in the Senate.
Should we remind our legislators that violence against another citizen is already a crime. Inciting others towards breaking the law is also already against the law.
Look, big surprise, even progressive TN rep. Steve Cohen voted for it>> And he was criticized by conservatives and religious folks for voting for the Hate Crime bill because it was [his critics said] legislating thought-crime. And for needlessly making up new laws for things that were already illegal.
In his defense, I guess he thought he was doing the right thing by standing up for the victims of hate-crimes.
Likewise, our legislators are trying to protect US from bad-guys. And they must feel they have to be tough on terrorism. Yet they must fail to see the contradiction of destroying the Constitution to save it and the absurdity of robbing us of our freedoms in order to save us from terrorism. It's like a badly-written action drama where the so-called-hero shoots into a crowd of innocent civilians to stop the bad guy. Instead of an oath to protect the Constitution, they ought to swear not to harm it and while they're at it, remember not to harm the 99.99% of innocent Americans in their way.
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