Liberal News Media, terrorist rights supporting DemocRats
and the ACLU in a frenzy over Mosque Monitoring
News Archives 2005 by Gary Bauer - "Big Media" continues to do its best to
blow-up U.S. efforts to win the war declared on us by the Islamofascists. The latest media
outlet to get into the "gotcha game" was U.S. News and World Report, a magazine
once perceived as conservative, but now chooses to "ape" the New York Times.
U.S. News breathlessly broke a story that the federal government was running a top-secret
program to monitor sites in some U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., Chicago,
Detroit, Las Vegas, New York and Seattle, for evidence of radiation. The goal is to be
able to detect, in time, a dirty nuclear bomb that we know our enemy wants to smuggle and
detonate in the United States.
Sounds like a good program to me. But what has the media in a meltdown is that many of the
sites monitored were Muslim and that the radiation monitoring, which at times included
driving the monitoring truck into a parking lot or driveway, was not done pursuant to
obtaining a search warrant. David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law School,
said the tactic would clearly "intrude on privacy."
Where should we begin? Do the critics really see a problem with the fact that many of the
sites were Muslim? If Lutherans or Episcopalians claiming to act by the dictates of their
faith had killed three thousand Americans on 9/11 and had a history of hiding weapons in
their churches, would we conduct surveillance outside of Amish churches?
Secondly, just what privacy right is being violated by the government checking the air for
unusual levels of radiation? There is no right to posses dirty nuclear bombs. No person
was being searched, and no house was entered. The Supreme Court has already ruled that
publicly accessible driveways and parking lots are not areas that require warrants. The
threat to our constitutional liberties does not come from a truck attempting to stop a
mushroom cloud over a major U.S. city. Rather, it comes from an enemy that will, if it
prevails, sink the world back into another dark age.
Clearly, the Bush-Bashers have their theme for 2006. It is just another permutation of
Bush as Hitler. Instead of congratulating the administration for preventing another
9/11-like attack over the last four years, we are supposed to all be panicking about our
loss of liberty at the hands of the these "fascist Republicans."
But, what if the Bush Administration had conducted the war during the last four years the
way the media elites preferred: You know -- an ACLU attorney for every terrorist and
Miranda rights read on the battlefield -- with the inevitable result being another attack
on our homeland and more lives lost. Yes, you guessed it -- the same media mavens would be
writing about how Bush-Cheney slept while Americans died.
Posted Dec 29, 2005 by Gary Bauer
Mr. Bauer, a 2000 candidate for President, is chairman of Campaign for Working Families
and president of American Values.
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