Comments on: US Terror Ratings may be illegal

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:13:00 +0000

” These bozos in “Homeland Security” have proven time and again that they are nothing but complete idiots when it comes to supposedly protecting the country. ”

That’s true, but protecting the country isn’t really their job.
Protecting our leaders from scrutiny or questioning IS.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:29:00 +0000

The Bush administration has shown over and over again that it is not interested in operating legally. At every turn it is too inconvenient for their purposes to apply legal requirements to what they wish to be standard operations. It gets in the way of the purposes they wish to do. This smacks of exactly the mentality that was used during HPs investigations.

The main difference here is that this isn’t a corporation that is ruthlessly applying these tactics. This is the leadership of the country and even more importantly, the commander of all armed forces. Just as willingly as he would ignore the legal requirements for actions, he would also do the same at the drop of a hat for the public at large. One only needs to look at the lack of consideration for the Geneva Conventions when dealing with prisoners to see this in action. With the mere changing of terms for the classification of combatants to read terrorists somehow means they are no longer human and don’t need the standard conditions awarded any other human beings.

Do understand, I have no love for terrorists. I think their methods deplorable. Still one has to look at which side one sets at in the terms legality. If we trash our standards “just because it is not convenient”, we are worse than the world’s worst dictators or well on the way to becoming one and the same.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:10:10 +0000

Illegal or not, the ratings are immoral.

Allow this and we shall allow too a “value to society” ratings. Then the low rated shall go to the gas chambers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:55:12 +0000

Let’s not forget how the “homeland security” officials thought noted peace activist (and former folk music superstar) Cat Stevens was planning an imminent suicide terrorist attack as his flight arrived in the US.

http://p2pnet.net/story/2529

Thousands of innocent people are routinely pulled off airline flights and treated like criminals – over and over – just because their name somehow got entered on a no-fly list, a list that apparently has no way for names to ever be deleted.

These bozos in “Homeland Security” have proven time and again that they are nothing but complete idiots when it comes to supposedly protecting the country.