VTR wrote:
> Chertoff is the author of the patriot Act
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/chertoff_new_homeland_security_cza=
r/
>
> Tuesday, 6 May 2008
> Chertoff Says New Laws Needed
>
> At a speech before the Heritage Foundation this week, Homeland Security
Se=
cretary Michael
> Chertoff said the U.S. needs to have a =EF=BF=BDnonpoliticized, serious
di=
scussion=EF=BF=BD while writing new
> laws to define the best way to combat terrorism.
Yeah right "nonpoliticized." Sure. Everything Chertoff has done and
said to this point is politicized.
> Chertoff said that once laws are written, the public should not
second-gue=
ss government actions
> and claim that federal officials are overstepping their authority.
In other words, Americans should not perform their patriotic duty of
holding their leaders accountable. If that's what Chertoff is saying,
it's highly disturbing.
> If the public limits what the government can do, it must accept that the
r=
isk of terrorist
> attacks may increase, he said. If the public gives the government
greater =
authorities, it
> should not criticize the government for using those authorities at a
later=
date.
It's not the public that gives the government greater authorities.
It's the branches of the federal government who do. It's the public's
duty to scritinize their own representatives and take them to task for
granting the feds, especially the executive branch, unrestrained
authority that has little to do, if anything, with combatting terror
threats.
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