One of the ramifications of granting undeserved civil liberties to foreigners suspected of terrorist ties is the undeserved restriction of civil liberties of actual citizens. Failing to revoke visas, flag for special screening, and impose "no fly" restrictions upon security risks results in terrorist attacks, like the one that almost suceeded on Christmas Day. This laxity that results in near terrorist misses in turn results in unnecessary impositions on the civil liberties of American citizens, like the hundreds of full-body imaging screeners set to hit American airports this spring. Put another way, the defenders of civil liberties are often the ones who ultimately undermine them. When you don't weed out the suspected bad guys for special airport screening, airport screeners demand to see everybody naked through an X-ray contraption that some science fiction writer, or pervert, probably dreamed of 60 years ago. Big Brother is watching--just not the bad guys. That would be profiling, or bigotry, or some other offense against political correctness.

No. They don't. They REALLY don't.

I've said before, and I'll say it again: We need a separate line for everyone named Mohammed.

I can make this into a t-shirt if anyone wants:

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On a related note to having separate lines for these guys, I would question why it's so easy for them to get Visas. I thought the State Department was supposed to be on top of this? Apparently not.

And these jokers want to run our health care. A-yuh.

Great Post!