We're sorry now...these headlines read like third world countries...or German tyrants, or whatever.
This is political posturing at its very worse and it is going to get even uglier as the '06 and then '08 elections approach. It's so hard to rise above the noise that politicians are grasping at straws to get noticed.
We're fine with Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin or even Kos making outrageous statements to get noticed. That's the business they're in (we're wondering WHAT business Kos is in these days, with the broohaha from David Brooks / Newsweek ongoing). Anyway, we're believe we're all going to live to regret this kind of talk from our representatives in the name of a vote....A sad day for America, the country most of us love dearly.
Illegals rounded up and put in labor camps? What country did you say this is? The USA? We're having a hard time recognizing it. "Don Goldwater, nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, caused an international stir this week when EFE, a Mexican news service, quoted him as saying he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them "as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they're polluting." The article described Goldwater's plan as a "concentration camp" for migrants. "
Treason? For publishing information in a paper that hardly anyone reads anymore? Lordy, lordy, it's getting hot in here.
"The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration Sunday to seek criminal charges against The New York Times for reporting on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.Rep. Peter King blasted the newspaper's decision last week to report that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records."I am asking the Attorney General to begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times -- the reporters, the editors and the publisher," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. "We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous.""
