Once again, Sen. Joe is trying to shred the Constitution a little more than it already has been and stampede people into doing things based on that unreasoning fear of "The Others". Why is it that any time a person of Middle Eastern descent or African descent or Hispanic descent does EXACTLY the same thing as a person of Western European descent, we want to do all sorts of despicable things to them and, in the process, compromise our own rights. For example. When Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, we didn't hear Joe or Peter King call for not reading him his Miranda Rights or shipping him to Guantanamo or stripping him of his citizenship.
Why is it that when the moron who flew his airplane (gee, doesn't that pretty well duplicate 9/11) into the building where the IRS rented space, we didn't hear Lindsay Graham or Sen. Joe wanting to strip anyone of citizenship who commits an act of terror. Or ship them to Gitmo. Or not read them their Miranda rights. Yes, I know he was dead and no longer a threat, but this guy is in custody and no longer a threat either.
Suffice it to say that, while the evidence is not strong enough to be conclusive, there certainly seems to be the whiff of racism in the air.
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