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Why is it, I wonder, if we know this guy is ISIL, we can't arrest him for supporting a known terrorist group.
But, if we can't, the least we could do is prohibit him from buying weapons, and without getting a response about the government coming to confiscate all our guns.
or, is that unreasonable? What do you think?
Due Process. How many freedoms and liberty are we willing to relinquish because the government decided to put us on a list without Due Process of Law?
The Soviets had lists that could get you sent to a gulag to work until you died.
North Korea still has lists that can have you arrested and then you just disappear.
Is that the direction we want our country to follow?
We can't arrest him, more than likely, because he hasn't broken any laws... yet (a requirement of Due Process). Although I am very concerned about a terrorist sympathizer running around the country, it's obvious that the government is watching him (Obama just told us all that even he gets briefings about this guy and others), I am more concerned about the government using this guy as an excuse to remove all the freedoms and liberty of US citizens.
You see, the terrorist can injure or harm a dozen or maybe even a hundred people (or maybe even like 9/11 and kill 2,996 people). However, the government can oppress the freedoms and liberty of over 320 Million US citizens, and use a few terrorist sympathizers to do so.
We have a sitting President that is openly advocating the removal of a Constitutionally Protected Right, simply because the government has decided that they are concerned about your thoughts and speech, and they decided to put you on a list.
Let me repeat that in other words - the President of The United States of America is advocating the government be given the power to oppress people that they disagree with ideologically, prior to the person committing a crime or being convicted of a crime, much less even being officially charged with breaking a law!!!
Any reasonable thinking person that values their freedom and liberty should be enraged by what the President is advocating and doing, rather than asking why it's unreasonable.
If one person's freedoms and liberty are oppressed without Due Process, and we the people agree with the action and in fact support the action, then we are all oppressed but just haven't noticed the shackles we help the government put on our own ankles.