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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (600516)	8/5/2004 11:27:15 PM
From: Karin	Respond to of 769670

Five reasons to fear the Democratic Party The theme of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night was ''A Stronger More Secure America,'' which was capped off by a rousing speech from a renowned law-and-order Democrat: Al Sharpton. No joke. Here are five other reasons to be afraid of putting a Democratic administration in charge of guarding America's gates. • Ted Kennedy. The senior senator from Massachusetts has worked relentlessly since the Sept. 11 attacks to cripple homeland defense. Last January, he secretly attempted to remove funding for the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) -- a Justice Department program that helped nab at least 330 known foreign criminals, 15 illegal-alien felons and three known terrorists who attempted to enter the United States. Last month, he introduced legislation that would gut the PATRIOT Act and radically restructure the immigration court system to protect and strengthen illegal aliens' rights. If the Sept. 11 attacks were a ''failure of imagination'' as the 9/11 Commission concluded, protecting America requires that we imagine this bone-chilling scenario and do all we can to prevent another disaster: U.S. Attorney General Ted Kennedy. • The American Civil Liberties Union. The organization maintains dangerously absolutist positions against the use of torture to gather intelligence from al Qaeda terrorists, against the designation of enemy combatants apprehended on either foreign or U.S. soil and against common-sense profiling in wartime. The ACLU joined Kennedy in opposing the carefully targeted NSEERS program. Under the guise of protecting civil rights, the ACLU supported the infamous wall of separation that handicapped communications between U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies fighting terrorism. • The Professional Grievance-Mongers. From the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the collective response of the Diversity Is Our Strength crowd to the war on terror has been to cry, ''Racist!'' The ethnic shakedown artists who have sued over every slight and hyped every faked claim of a hate crime are America-bashing enablers of the worst sort -- and they are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. • The Open Borders Lobby. I have long been dissatisfied with the Bush administration's unwillingness to get serious control of our immigration chaos. But if you are unhappy with the lack of progress on securing our land, air and sea ports of entry, it will get only worse under Kerry-Edwards. Groups such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Council of La Raza and the Ford Foundation have protested enforcement, detention, deportation, employer sanctions and secure identification measures every step of the way, and it is from their ranks that a Democratic administration will draw upon to staff the Justice Department, Department of Transportation and Department of Homeland Security. Scary. • First Responder Fetishists. Eager to suck up to men and women in uniform, Kerry has proposed adding 100,000 first responders to the ranks of firefighters and emergency medical personnel nationwide. There is no question that our brave firefighters, cops and emergency personnel need increased training and support -- but dialing 911 is not the solution to stopping another 9/11. And neither is voting the party of the Chicken Little Clean-Up Crew into office.