How long before any of us here at DU is called a "Home Grown Terrorist"

[tjwash]

How long before they just arrest one, or a group of us DU'ers on the flimsiest of excuses?

How long before these out of control, jack-booted thugs that care nothing about the real security of our country tears apart one of our lives? How long before they take the hard drive out of one of our computers and uses it to show on a 7 by 24 basis, on all the cable news channels, all the emails to subversive home grown terrorist organizations such as the ACLU, or the NAACP that we constantly send out?

How long before one of the 90000+ members here at DU gets a knock at their door, and their bank accounts picked through, and show just how we have given money to terrorist sleeper cells like Moveon.org or Salon.com?

How long before this shit happens to one of us, and we lose our jobs because we are suddenly guilty until proven innocent, and just don't have the money or the credit to bail out of jail for a month? Then, when the judge finally tosses out the case because there is ZERO evidence what so ever, and your life is still no less destroyed anyway, and they say, oops...sorry. Of course THAT won't be on any of the cable news shows.

Fuck this sucks. I hate what we have become in this fucking country. This is the shit we used to look down on the Iron Curtain countries for.

[Skidmore]

1. I'd say mission creep has now become mission rampage.

When the Judicial Committee gets done assisting Congress in handing * unlimited powers, there will be no place safe for dissent.

[bullimiami]

2. good question.

[benburch]

3. We get called that every day.

But so far as I know, nobody here has been arrested for it.

[Bonobo]

4. Probably has already happened. We just didn't notice.

[originalpckelly]

5. We are now living in digital prisons.

[IA_Seth]

6. Al-Kinda

Hey, they gotta catch someone right? If they can't capture Osama to parade about before 2006 they will have to find some scary "Al Kinda" cells here in the US.

[mongo]

7. I already live with this everyday

as I can be arrested for the heinous crime of selling a movie...

[Generic Other]

8. The Brits thought these dudes were homegrown terrorists too...

[Virginia Dare]

12. Damn straight...n/t

[Virginia Dare]

9. As ridiculous as this whole thing looks...

maybe they're just pushing the envelope. Maybe they're trying to see just how fast and loose they can be with calling people terrorists and get away with it.

Gonzales said something to the effect today that they "wanted" to "harm" Americans.

WTF does that mean? Wanting to do something is a far cry from having the means and the intent to carry it through.

[shadowknows69]

10. All I ask

and I pledge to do the same. If we ever do find out a DUer has been "taken" we make as loud a fucking noise as we can about it.

[Virginia Dare]

11. You have my word, I will continue to scream loudly...

whenever I see tyranny in action. :thumbsup:

[FairVotes4all]

13. Ditto

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