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| 2007-07-25 |
| Thanks to the leadership of Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, the chairman and ranking minority member, respectively, of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and especially that of Rep. Pete King, Sen. Collins' counterpart on the House Homeland Security Committee, legislation along the lines of that adopted by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives last May at Rep. King's initiative will shortly become law. The language will provide protection against the sorts of harassment lawsuits filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after several unidentified individuals reported six Muslim imams engaged in suspicious – and frightening – behavior prior to boarding a USAir flight in November 2006. CAIR has been identified as a front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood and is an un-indicted co-conspirator in an alleged terrorism-financing plot. Props to the CSP for helping with this. And a pox on the dhimocrat surrender monkeys that wanted to kill this. Thompson/Lieberman '08! |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #3 Not so fast - the devil is in the details Via Jihad Watch ( http://www.jihadwatch.org/ ): The "John Doe" provision protecting passengers who report suspicious behavior is back -- or is it? Paul Green at GreensPiece reports a disturbing element of the new version: My initial euphoria at the revivification of the "John Doe" protection provision in the Homeland Security bill is much tempered by a look at the actual language to which its opponents agreed. It has quite enough wiggle room to enable the sort of mischief at which attorneys and grievance activists have become adept. |
| Posted by: Rupert Slolurong6998 2007-07-25 19:21 |
| #2 Glad to see a few of these wonks still have their hats on straight and value American lives and protection over that of Mohammedans. I'd wager it's more the case that they want to have a snowball's chance of getting re-elected ever again. All politicians who sought to defeat this vital amendment should be drummed out of office post haste. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-25 16:57 |
| #1 Glad to see a few of these wonks still have their hats on straight and value American lives and protection over that of Mohammedans. Peter King is topnotch. He didn't mind opposing Bush on immigration, favoring US citizens all the way. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-07-25 12:55 |