This is What Happens When You Drop the Ball
While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who dares fly the official military Gadsen flag on the domestic terrorist watch list, a real terrorist was spouting off online, glorifying suicide bombings and our mission in Iraq. I mean, I’m sure if I drink enough I might be able to understand the perception that a bunch of middle-class people peacefully dissenting with certain Washington policies are way more dangerous than a dude who talked about terrorist stuff on social sites and had gotten authorities’ attention six months ago.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:00
Yes, adding average tea partiers to DT watchlists would be ridiculous (I’ve yet to see evidence that it actually happened), but what policies did we used to have (the ball that was allegedly dropped) that would have prevented this tragedy? This seems to be the kind of act that no sane laws could have protected us against; i.e. the power needed to protect us against events like this are beyond what we should feel comfortable granting to the government. Government’s only solution would be more monitoring of its citizens, more gun control, more Patriot Acts.