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Yes, to help ’save’ you, Homeland Security wants to take your rights away.

To quote Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, the current Homeland Security Department’s top intelligence official

“Set aside what the mass of people think. Some things are so bad for them that you cannot allow them to have them. One of them is war in the context of terrorism in the United States.
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Therefore, we have to abridge individual rights, change the societal conditions, and act in ways that heretofore were not in accordance with our values and traditions, like giving a police officer or security official the right to search you without a judicial finding of probable cause.”

Somehow I don’t think that abridging our rights will accomplish “The Government’s first duty is to protect the lives and liberties of the American people” as quoted on http://www.georgewbush.com/Agenda/Chapter.aspx?ID=4.

This confirms that the current presidential administration doesn’t care too much for that pesky 4th amendment or your civil liberties.

Somedays I wish we had a candidate that was worth voting for. Someone that didn’t try to spin, or hide, or convolute. To date, I can’t remember such a candidate.