The war against the War on Terrorism

This type of nonsense is WAY out of hand.

It's past time to put a stop to it.

Key points:

"Virtually every aspect of the administration's war on terror-related policies--from the USA Patriot Act, to the use of military commissions to try captured al Qaeda members for war crimes, to the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program, so-called data mining, no-fly lists and related transportation security measures--has been challenged in court. On balance the courts have upheld the administration's actions, or required relatively modest changes--or additional congressional action in the case of military commissions. Significantly, the Supreme Court has accepted the legality of the president's adoption of a 'laws of war paradigm.'"



"Leaving aside the lack of legal merit, the ACLU's claims are part of a highly troubling new trend. They are of a piece with a number of other ATS lawsuits brought against government contractors, actions filed last year against telecommunications companies alleging that they violated federally protected privacy rights by cooperating with the NSA's data-collection efforts, and an action, filed last March in Minnesota, against several airline passengers who had reported what they believed to be suspicious activity by a group of Muslim imams."



I can hear the wailing and the howls of protest now regarding this point of view.

Save your breath.

ALL of your talking points on this matter have been proven to be bogus.