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" WASHINGTON - The nation's chief of homeland security said Sunday that the U.S. should consider reviewing its laws to allow for more electronic surveillance and detention of possible terror suspects, citing last week's foiled plot. "
" "What helped the British in this case is the ability to be nimble, to be fast, to be flexible, to operate based on fast-moving information," he said. "We have to make sure our legal system allows us to do that. It's not like the 20th century, where you had time to get warrants." "
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This is such a crock that it defies belief. The investigation of the suspects currently being held in the U.K took a minimum of six months!
Where was the lack of time to get warrants?
Why does it require "more electronic surveillance and detention of possible terror suspects" here in the U.S (in direct contravention of our own laws and Constitution)?
Perhaps because the government is afraid the American people are getting extremely tired of watching their rights, freedoms and Constitution vanish? And they want to be able to keep a better eye on us - and be able to "detain" anyone and everyone who objects to it?
How much of a stretch do you think it would be for the government to declare anyone who protested as an "aider/abettor" of "terrorists' " - or perhaps even label them a "terrorist", too?
If we allow it to get to that point, let's hope that we can all easily adjust to living in a country ruled by a massive, technologically-abetted dictatorship - because an un-bridled Executive Branch, not bound by any constraints whatsoever, is a sure recipe for just that. Pete
