"Jihad Jane": Terrorism Charge Boosts Patriot Act Support

[Bluebear]

Personally, anybody with the word Jihad in her name terrifies me. I think we should keep the Patriot Act, strengthen it, and I thank her for fortifying approval of this Law. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Meanwhile, I am stocking up on canned tuna and powdered milk and keeping them under my bed. Thank you.


Notice :scared: she is wearing a HIJAB which sort of rhymes with Jihad!!!

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The Justice Department won't say whether provisions of the Patriot Act were used to investigate and charge Colleen LaRose. But the FBI and U.S. prosecutors who charged the 46-year-old woman from Pennsburg, Pa., on Tuesday with conspiring with terrorists and pledging to commit murder in the name of jihad could well have used the Patriot Act's fast access to her cell-phone records, hotel bills and rental-car contracts as they tracked her movements and contacts last year. But even if the law's provisions weren't directly used against her, the arrest of the woman who allegedly used the moniker "Jihad Jane" is a boost for the Patriot Act, Administration officials and Capitol Hill Democrats say. That's because revelations of her alleged plot may give credibility to calls for even greater investigative powers for the FBI and law enforcement, including Republican proposals to expand certain surveillance techniques that are currently limited to targeting foreigners.

Despite having repeatedly called for greater restrictions on the Patriot Act since its inception, Democrats punted late last month when presented with their best opportunity to roll back the law. After spending months working up a revised bill that would have moderately limited the broad powers created by the existing one, Democrats opted instead to extend the act as is for one year. President Obama signed the extension days before the expiration of the law's most controversial provisions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100311/us_time/08599197124500

[ixion]

1. The unPATRIOTic Act is unconstitutional, and should be repealed

post haste.

[Bluebear]

2. Instead, our courageous Democratic Congress & President extend it.

Whatever.

[Echo In Light]

3. Immediately, if not sooner

[littlemurraysparkles]

4. jihad jane is a registered republican

colleen larose
montgomery co., PA
d.o.b. 6/5/1963

http://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/Pages/VoterRegistrationStatus.aspx