The ACLU, the most liberal of organizations, has filed a lawsuit in Oakland,
California (shock of shocks) seeking the criteria with which the
Transportation Security Administration uses to place people's names on a
"no-fly list" which effectively screens flight manifests for people with
terrorist ties. They claim that the list is including those who work
actively, but legally, to oppose the Bush Administration.
This is the type of conspiracy-laden thinking that runs rampant through the
membership rolls of the liberal left. When faced with a reasonable option of
increased security at our airports in order to ensure that terrorists and
violent criminals don't turn the air travel into the Russian roulette of
tragedies they are quick to scream that their freedoms and civil rights are
being trampled on claiming that there simply has to be some kind of
political agenda because there is a list with names on it.
So, because two loud-mouthed activists from San Francisco (Gee, I just keep
shocking you don't I) get detained briefly at the airport the ACLU is suing
to find out who is on this list and how they go about being placed on it.
Well, why don't we just open all the books so that the real terrorists can
figure out how we do it? Then they can circumvent the process and gain
access to more missiles they can fly into buildings. The ACLU, and these two
boobs, would have us believe that this is the price that we should pay to
protect our civil rights and our Constitution.
Well, here's a novel approach, how about if we try to catch the terrorists
before they murder a couple hundred of us per plane so that we can keep our
Constitution alive? Let's protect the people first so that we can be alive
to protect our civil liberties. It sounds like a double-edged sword and I
suppose it is. But if the choice is between the public being placed in harms
way by two obnoxious ultra-liberal activists with a conspiracy theory who
don't want to be inconvenienced by the increased security at our airports
and maintaining a list, albeit a list with errors on it from time to time,
of those who would murder our innocents in the name of some screwed up
religion sponsored by some fanatical whacked-out government I will choose
the list each and every time.
This is the price that we should be willing to pay for our freedom; a bit of
giving for the greater good. Those who died to maintain our freedom gave of
themselves. Who do these blow-hard ultra-liberal activists think they are
that they should not have to give of themselves for the good of our country?
I’ll take a stab at it, a couple of narcissistic, me-first, not-my-fault
liberals who couldn’t care less about what’s good for our country as long as
they get what they want.
Face it, being on a list and having some questions asked of you isn't that
large of a price. Oh, and being on a list and having some questions asked of
you doesn't make the list part of a grand conspiracy either. Let's leave the
conspiracy theories to Oliver Stone and the other fiction writers. It makes
for better entertainment than lawsuits do.
Frank Salvato is a
political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a
contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials,
Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are
regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The
O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer
Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan
Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The
Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and
international publications.
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