Summary
The United States should follow the instruction of Great Britain in punishing speech likely to motivate terrorism. President George W. Bush should propose legislation making criminal the condoning or glorifying of terrorism against the United States whether uttered domestically or abroad, for example, Bobby Fisher's notorious glee at the September 11, 2001 abominations. Reasonable suspicion of sympathy with terrorism should justify excluding or deporting aliens. And naturalization should require the applicant's oath or affirmation to cooperate with law enforcement and national security authorities in the investigation or foiling of terrorist crimes.
The proposals would be no witch hunt. Witches were figments. Terrorists are the real thing. Just ask their victims, whether in New York City, London, Jerusalem, Madrid, Bali, Casablanca, Nairobi, Baghdad or elsewhere. The alarm over terrorism is unlike the hysterical and racist relocations of Japanese Americans during World War II. The latter were herded into concentration camps without a crumb of evidence of disloyalty. The vile ambitions of Muslim terrorists are open and notorious. (Non-Muslim terrorists like Timothy McVeigh or Eden Natan Zada, a Jewish deserter from the Israeli Army guilty of slaying four Israeli Arabs, are but a tiny fraction of the whole).See the full content of this document
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Squelching . . . The Inciters
The harms inflicted by terrorists coiled to strike at any time or place are staggering. Travel is confounded and prolonged. Privacy bows to legitimate worries over security. Suspicions grow. Trust recedes. Split-second decisions required ...
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