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Progressing Backward to Pre 9-11
Posted by Raven on October 3rd, 2007
The cry babies on the left are celebrating the recent ruling that parts of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional. Specifically, surveillance and arrests based on it are no longer allowed.
The case the judge used is detailed here:
Following the March 11, 2004, bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people and injured 2,000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation tested a set of fingerprints from the Spanish crime scene and generated twenty prints from its system that most closely matched. Mayfield alleges that FBI examiners ran background checks and learned of his conversion to Islam, and that this knowledge biased their examination of his fingerprints, leading to the search of his house, followed by his arrest. He spent two weeks in prison, until the Spanish authorities definitively attributed those fingerprints to someone else.
Mayfield argues that taking his religion into account was illegitimate and the court agreed with him. However, circumstantial evidence strongly suggested Mayfield’s connection to the Madrid bombing, as I have shown in a prior column and weblog entry. That evidence included Mayfield having:
* Prayed in the same mosque as did several individuals who pleaded guilty of conspiring to help the Taliban.
* Helped organize a branch of the Muslim Student Association, a Wahhabi organization, at Washburn University.
* Represented Jeffrey Leon Battle – who subsequently was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to levy war against America – pro bono in a custody dispute.
* Advertised his law practice with Farid Adlouni, someone “directly linked in business dealings” with Wadih El Hage, Osama Bin Laden’s former personal secretary later convicted of conspiring to murder American citizens.
* Wrote a letter supporting the Taliban.In addition, Mayfield’s house contained virulently anti-Semitic articles, his landline telephone was used to contact Perouz Sedaghaty (a.k.a. Pete Seda), a suspected terrorism-funder, and someone used his home computer to research travel to Madrid, rental housing in Spain, and a website connected to the Spanish national passenger rail system, target of the Madrid bombings.
A lot of coincident if you ask me. I take some comfort in knowing my government can detect these activities without a lot of attention or effort. But I also fear the weaklings of the left will abolish the activities required to gather this info, and leave me and my family and friends vulnerable. The left wants the US to go back to pre 9-11 days; yet they will be the first to whine and complain that our government didn’t connect the dots…they can’t have it both ways.
This evidence, the U.S. Attorney in Oregon, Karin Immergut, rightly concluded, “demonstrates that the government and its agents were acting in good faith” when they imprisoned Mayfield. Also, the Department of Justice inspector general found no indication “that the FBI Laboratory had knowledge of Mayfield’s religion” while analyzing his fingerprints. But Judge Aiken, a Clinton appointee, exploited law enforcement’s misstep to gut the USA PATRIOT Act.
By playing the religion card, the judge in this case has indeed opened the US up to more attacks. Mr. Mayfield was released and never charged with any crimes. I sure HOPE he is still under suspicion though, after reviewing his activities. What would YOU do if you discovered all this evidence? Would you think he’s a threat to someone if not the country???
October 4th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
“Specifically, surveillance and arrests based on it are no longer allowed.”
You’re lying to your readers, Raven. You’re lying because you’re too fucking stupid to look up the facts, and too fucking stupid to construct an argument based on facts.
Here, I’ll help you prove it:
Cite the exact passage in Judge Aiken’s ruling that disallows surveillance.
Cite the exact passage in Judge Aiken’s ruling that disallows arrests based on surveillance.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:05 am
no meaty, raven is right. surveillance under the old guidelines are no longer legal…..no more going around fisa….again you are wrong..and still a dumbass
October 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Raven said nothing about “surveillance under the old guidelines”. Her exact words were:
“Specifically, surveillance and arrests based on it are no longer allowed.”
Cite the exact passage in Judge Aiken’s ruling that disallows surveillance.
Cite the exact passage in Judge Aiken’s ruling that disallows arrests based on surveillance.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Cite this Meaty:
October 5th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Raven has proven my point. She is indeed too fucking stupid to read Judge Aiken’s ruling. Should someone give it to her, she would prove too fucking stupid to read and comprehend it.
Raven told a lie. Now she’s been caught at it. All the poor thing can do is screech and gibber. Actual, reasoned argument — based on facts, not lies — is entirely beyond her capabilities.
I thank you for your cooperation, Raven.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Meaty I have allowed you to entertain us all in my comments here. You’re an idiOt and we all know it. We like to bait you with posts like this.
Since when have you been resorting to such language? You used to be so level headed in your debating; now you’re just a swearing, spitting, drooling
cry baby. Hmm…must be that you’re perhaps seeing the fact that you lose every debate you enter and you’re just frustrated.
We understand.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
He loses at my place, he picks a fight here. And the only thing he has is calling someone a liar with little to back it up.
If you can’t prove someone’s a liar, you look like the village idiot.
As that your problem, meathead, you’re known in your town as the village idiot?
October 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Utterly hilarious.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I don’t think Raven’s a hypocrite, I think Meatbrain is a liar and a coward; because when he makes those accusations towards others, he’s really holding a mirror up and seeing himself.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I don’t understand Meaty’s latest post. He’s lying. Again.
He’s making things up- writing words I never wrote. I think he’s losing his little mind or sumthin.