For Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and David Axelrod, the ideological core of President Obama’s administration, the enemies to be silenced are those who still stand for the original Constitution and the original Judeo-Christian ethos upon which the nation was founded.
Judith Miller on the City Journal website describes the Obama administration’s initial reactions to the near-miss terrorist bombing attempt on an airliner bound for Detroit.
For the first three days after the incident, administration officials congratulated themselves, declaring that the system had worked as planned. This ignored the fact that only the heroism of alert passengers and crew on the airliner averted disaster. The Federal security system had failed in every single aspect.
As damning facts emerged, the Transportation Security Agency slapped together a memorandum of draconian new measures that appeared to inconvenience and delay passengers more than to deter potential terrorist bombers.
Miller reports what happened thereafter:
But the new restrictions on passenger activity on international flights prompted protests and ridicule, especially after they were leaked to two travel blogger-journalists—Chris Elliott and Steven Frischling—who published them on their websites. The agency began backtracking almost immediately: orders to pat down nearly all passengers, and to keep them seated with personal possessions off their laps at least an hour before a flight’s arrival, suddenly became “discretionary,” an anonymous TSA spokesman now said…
Last Tuesday, it launched an investigation into how Elliott and Frischling obtained Security Directive 1544-09-06, the temporary emergency regulations, which were due to expire on December 30 in any event. Rather than focus its energy and resources on discovering how the 23-year-old Abdulmutallab managed to board an American airliner wearing explosive-laden underwear—endangering nearly 300 other passengers flying from Nigeria or Amsterdam, where the plane stopped before heading for Detroit—the TSA sent three of its agents at night to the journalists’ homes. Elliot and Frischling described them as “polite” but intimidating: they were armed with subpoenas and threats of grave legal consequences if the reporters failed to divulge their source. Under pressure, Frischling handed over his computer, which was returned the next morning, its software corrupted. Elliott called his lawyer and refused to turn over his computer or e-mails. The TSA gave him another two weeks to comply with the subpoena.
Such night-time-knock-at-the-door tactics are reminiscent of Hitler’s systematic suppression of dissident voices within Germany in the 1930s.
Needless to say, the ACLU expressed no objection. After all, it was founded during World War I to defend anarchists and socialists who endeavored to sabotage the United States’ participation in the war against socialist Germany. It’s all for anything that undermines the original intent of the Bill of Rights.
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