Thursday, April 20, 2006
124 Days and Counting
I've been arguing with my friend Troll from Philadelphia about why guys like him are so willing to give their elected officials a pass when they systematically 1) break some laws (FISA) and 2) fail to enforce other laws (immigration). Now I've found a real American hero (and one that I wouldn't have expected).
It's Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Today (as reported on CNSNews.com) Chertoff said:
It's Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Today (as reported on CNSNews.com) Chertoff said:
[W]hat we're focused on is not just individual cases involving a single violator here or a single violator there, but actually looking at those people who adopt, as a business model, the systematic violation of United States law.I will feel really secure in my homeland when Secretary Chertoff goes after all those criminals in the Bush administration that have made a business model out of ignoring United States laws that they find inconvenient!
Chertoff said the government plans to "come down as hard as possible and break the back" of those organizations.