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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (668357)	1/13/2005 6:28:55 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sounds pretty awful doesnt it? Hmmm, I wonder if their are any Israeli's on this board that would like to comment? Believe me, if we have another horrendous homeland attack by terrorists you will be BEGGING Gen'l Hughes search and detain anyone who looks DIFFERENT. jdn

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (668357)	1/13/2005 11:13:53 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

“We have to abridge individual rights, change the societal conditions, and act in ways that heretofore were not in accordance with our values and traditions, like giving a police officer or security official the right to search you without a judicial finding of probable cause.” Gen. Hughes made his anti-Fourth Amendment comments eight months before President Bush appointed him to his DHS post, though they were not reported until a few weeks ago when Congressional Quarterly magazine obtained a transcript. He made them during a March 2003 Harvard University forum on “Future Conditions: The Character and Conduct of War, 2010 and 2020.” Seeing as how this came from a Harvard University forum, there is more to what was said and why, I'm sure. Taken out of context comes to mind...