Tuesday November 22, 2011
BLITZER: Senator Santorum, under certain circumstances in the past, you’ve supported profiling. Is that correct?
SANTORUM: I have.
BLITZER: What do you have in mind?
SANTORUM: Well, I mean, I think TSA is a good example of that. We should be trying to find the bomber, not the bomb. Other countries have done it. Israel is probably the best example of that.
BLITZER: So just to be precise, is it ethnic profiling, religious profiling? Who would be profiled?
SANTORUM: Well, the folks who are most likely to be committing these crimes. If you look at—I mean, obviously, it was—obviously, Muslims would be—would be someone you’d look at, absolutely. Those are the folks who are—the radical Muslims are the people that are committing these crimes, as we’ve—by and large, as well as younger males. I mean, these are things that—not exclusively—but these are things that you profile to—to find your best—the most likely candidate.
CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“We can use better technology [with TSA patdowns]. We can also identify people who are lower risk and allow them to go through the process more quickly than the current process.”
CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I think the Patriot Act is unpatriotic because it undermines our liberty…Today it seems too easy that our government and our congresses are so willing to give up our liberties for our security. I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.”
CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Ron Paul | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“But if you’re trying to find somebody who may have a nuclear weapon that they are trying to bring into an American city, I think you want to use every tool that you can possibly use to gather the intelligence. The Patriot Act has clearly been a key part of that. And I think looking at it carefully and extending it and building an honest understanding that all of us will be in danger for the rest of our lives. This is not going to end in the short run. And we need to be prepared to protect ourselves from those who, if they could, would not just kill us individually, but would take out entire cities.”
CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“We don’t give Miranda warnings to terrorists, and we don’t read them their rights. They don’t have any”
CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Michele Bachmann | War on Terror |
Friday October 07, 2011
“It is in the interests of all three nations to see that Afghanistan and the Afghanistan/ Pakistan border region are rid of the Taliban and other insurgent groups…. Pakistan should understand that any connection between insurgent forces and Pakistan’s security and intelligence forces must be severed. The United States enjoys significant leverage over both of these nations. We should not be shy about using it.”
CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |
Friday October 07, 2011
“It is in the interests of all three nations to see that Afghanistan and the Afghanistan/ Pakistan border region are rid of the Taliban and other insurgent groups…. Pakistan should understand that any connection between insurgent forces and Pakistan’s security and intelligence forces must be severed. The United States enjoys significant leverage over both of these nations. We should not be shy about using it.”
CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |
Thursday September 22, 2011
“We are not being attacked and we were not attacked because of our actions. We were attacked, as Newt talked about, because we have a civilization that is antithetical to the civilization of the jihadists. And they want to kill us because of who we are and what we stand for. And we stand for American exceptionalism, we stand for freedom and opportunity for everybody around the world, and I am not ashamed to do that.”
CATEGORIES: Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Monday September 12, 2011
“Many Bush-era Republicans still seem to have learned nothing in the last decade. Ignoring that 9/11 was caused primarily by Islamists seeking retribution for constant U.S. intervention in their “holy land”—something Osama Bin Laden made perfectly clear—Bush launched a war in Iraq, giving al-Qaeda its best recruiting tool in its history. Obama’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and whichever country next strikes his fancy, was a jihadist’s dream—a new American president, who despite promising “change” seemed hell-bent on continuing with the same foreign policy as the last president.”
CATEGORIES: Iraq | Ron Paul | War on Terror |
Monday September 12, 2011
“The purpose of al Qaeda was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us. And they have been doing it. They have more attacks against us and the American interests per month than occurred in all the years before 9/11, but we’re there occupying their land. And if we think that we can do that and not have retaliation, we’re kidding ourselves. We have to be honest with ourselves. What would we do if another country, say, China, did to us what we do to all those countries over there?”
CATEGORIES: Ron Paul | War on Terror |
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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