By John Burtis
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
I just heard the recording of a preening, wheezing Harry Reid announce, "Think of what we did twenty minutes ago," to a rousing crescendo of applause and wolf calls offered by fellow Democrats and a few turn-coat Republicans, worthy of a Stalinist speech before an enraptured Praesidium, "we killed the Patriot act." all in the name of privacy. The penultimate privacy, it appears to me, which rebounds to the benefit of the terrorists and their willing patrons.
Oh that's great, terrific, and I'm going to sleep a hell of a lot better tonight knowing that america's primary means of domestic defense, agreed upon in the horror of the post-9/11 attacks, by both houses of Congress and the President, and viewed as somewhat successful from the standpoint of the lack of attacks since that horrible September, has been erased in the blink of an eye and gutted like a fish. and now we're standing here with our collective pants down and it feels a might chilly.
It looks like the Democrats have scored a hat trick. Let's see, first they demand an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, claiming the war is unwinnable and use their finest front man, John Murtha, to describe an army that is "broken" and, "living hand-to-mouth," despite a total lack of evidence for the latter. Then they tackle Bush for daring to track terror suspects in the USa in real time with the NSa immediately following 9/11, overlooking federal court rulings allowing the NSa to pursue these activities, and accuse the President of being heavy handed. (When Bill Clinton authorized ECHELON, an NSa program designed to listen to EVERYBODY and to be used for economic spying.well before 9/11, he got nary a mention and gets a pass today,). and now, when the Democrats' crocodile tears for everyone's privacy reached a level of unparalleled ululation, they are literally forced to dump the Patriot act as their final act of perfidy for the sake of privacy.
New York City, the primary victim of the 9/11 attackers and Ground Zero, to say nothing of a hundred stations of the cross, for the FDNY, the NYPD, the Port authority PD and for thousands of the innocent, has seen her own senators, Clinton and Schumer, cut and run, leaving Lady Liberty unguarded for the sake of trumping President Bush over their Queen City's own security and the safety of her citizenry.
With these three points in the goal, it also appears that the Democrats have finally given up all pretense and thrown in with the terrorists and are openly cheering, as they did for Harry Reid, america's defeat. They finally have what they want--america and New York City unguarded. Open and ripe for the taking--the Big apple on a spit--with willing hands holding open her doors and pointing out her treasures for destruction.
This deceitful slavery to privacy, for honest citizens and terrorists alike, has finally hobbled our every attempt to fight terror and terrorism at home.
But will this hat trick stand? Will america stand naked to terror for a protracted period? Will the Democrats win back Congress and follow through with their threat to impeach President Bush? Will the party of appeasement proffer a soft silk glove to the bloody hand of the murderer? Will america offer millions for tribute and not one cent for defense? Who can say at this point?
But personally, I don't think that the leaders of al-Qaeda and their minions, and anyone talking to them on the phone or the internet from anywhere in the USa, especially those plotting our deaths and destruction, deserve any personal privacy at all. and please, if you must, call me old fashioned and out of touch, or even call me a reactionary. I guess from a leading Democrat's point of view, I am all these.
But woe betide the Democrats if we are struck in the hour of our weakness, for we will not forget who left us unguarded in this world of madness and denuded in the face of Islamist terror.
Privacy has become the hinge of fate.
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