Liberals and Neocons agree on domestic spying

Nothing but the best for DC when it comes to watching over us:

The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority. ...

Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved, he said. The department has previously said the program will not intercept communications.

And we trust our government, don't we?

So what do liberals in Congress have to say about this? Quoting from the same article, they say it's just fine with them for the Federal government use the most sophisticated spy technology on Americans:

"There is no basis to suggest that this process is in any way insufficient to protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans," Chertoff wrote to Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.), chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee and its intelligence subcommittee, respectively, in letters released yesterday.

Why would liberal Democrats support Big Brother actions like this? Because it gives them the ability to spy on right-wing "extemists." Here's Bennie Thompson again, this time, pounding on the panic button:

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, says the DHS must focus more intently on right-wing groups. "The department's responsibility includes protecting the homeland from domestic terrorists," Thompson says. "And that should mean all domestic terrorists, not just some of them."

And the article backs up Thompsons's concerns with this terrifying claim:

The Southern Poverty Law Center's estimates that 762 extremist right-wing hate groups were active in the United States last year, up slightly from the 751 groups tallied the year before.

Of course, the SPLC considers anyone who doesn't welcome 20 million illegal alien invaders as extremist. And Rep. Bennie Thompson seems to share the SPLC's definition of what constitutes extremism:

The Leading Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), tonight condemned the border security legislation passed by the House of Representatives, calling it an "extremist" proposal that does nothing to fulfill the 9/11 Commission's recommendations...

Here are the "extremist" provisions of the 2005 border security legislation:

It would require the Homeland Security Department to detain, until they can be removed from the country, all who try to enter illegally, and would set new mandatory minimum sentences on smugglers and people convicted of re-entry after removal. Illegal presence in the country, now a civil offense, would become a federal crime, and three drunken driving convictions would become a deportable offense for legal immigrants.

Bottom line: dissent from the globalist agenda is extremism.