{"id":3760,"date":"2003-04-01T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2003-04-01T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T20:16:11","slug":"thuggish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/thuggish.html","title":{"rendered":"Thuggish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder:  the war on Iraq is not inextricably tied to other &#8220;homeland security&#8221; efforts &#8212; and each can be judged on their own.<\/p>\n<p>And judging from <a title=\"Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - America's Other War: On Liberty\" href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/archives\/000908.shtml#000908\">this<\/a>, the DoJ continues to pull some high-handed (and underhanded) crap in its pursuit of HS.  And while I&#8217;ve defended the &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221; appellation in the past, if it&#8217;s true that government prosecutors are using it as a threat to extort confessions or guilty pleas, then once again the government will have demonstrated that it can&#8217;t be allowed to have an inch more power than is absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s remember that the hamstringing of the FBI in the 70s &#8212; which may have made it a lot easier for terrorists to strike in the early 00s &#8212; came about because of serious abuses in the 60s.  Screwing around like this is not only unjust, it&#8217;s giving future terrorists a break, because it will lead, inevitably, to a renewed crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least one can hope.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/008623.php\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder: the war on Iraq is not inextricably tied to other &#8220;homeland security&#8221; efforts &#8212; and each can be judged on their own. 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The Terrorists are coming!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-May-09 5:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"They're coming here! To the United States! To Colorful Colorado! And they're singing Orff's Carmina Burana! Eeek! \u00a0 But wait! It's worse than that!\u00a0 \u00a0 I may never sleep again! 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