Old 11-16-2007, 07:15 AM   #1
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You've probably heard about the government's Terrorism Watch list. You know, the list they wont tell you who's on, who's not, how they got there, or how to get off the list?

Well, now the government's Terrorism Watch list has grown to more than 750,000 names. They've added 200,000 names in the past year alone.

Does anyone really believe there are three-quarters of a million terrorists in this country? Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies doesn't. She told USA Today, "There's just no rational, reasonable estimate that there's anywhere close to that many suspected terrorists."

And get this: Anti-gun Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey is pushing legislation that would allow the Justice Department to deny a person's right to own a firearm because they're on this list.

Let me get this straight: You don't know how you get on, you don't know how to get off, but because your name's on there (along with 749,999 others), you're stripped of your Second Amendment rights?

No one wants to see America safer than the law abiding gun owners in this country. But you don't become safer by putting Americans on a list and denying them their Constitutional rights without due process of law. If you're going to do that, you might as well tear up the Constitution of the United States and throw it out the window.

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Old 11-17-2007, 10:59 PM   #2
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Estimated population of the United States - 301,139,947 (Yahoo search)
% of US polulation that's a suspected Terrorist - 0.25%
Or 1 / 400. So statistically in my alma mater of maybe 2400 students, there should be 6 suspected terrorists, and in my medium/small town of 8000 there should be 20.
My town has fewer sex offenders and fewer police officers. A high security government complex in a nearby town employs a couple thousand people in various positions, so about 5 of them should be on that list.
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Old 11-17-2007, 11:06 PM   #3
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It doesn't seem like that list would be very accurate
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Old 11-17-2007, 11:08 PM   #4
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its amazing how screwed up the goverment is sometimes i wonder if the "party" is still under taps that could explain a large number
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