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FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database
Peace protesters were unable to leave the country to speak in Canada because their names had been added to a database of criminals. There's a serious due-process violation here because a listing in this database is equivalent to an "infamous" conviction. "'The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies,' says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. 'The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the criteria for entering the country... The list is supposed to be for felony and serious misdemeanor offenses. We don't qualify — it's for sex offenders, foreign fugitives, gang violence and terrorist organizations, people who are on parole...'"
FBI Director Edgeworth had no comment.
Thank Jebus we have keyboard warriors like yourself helping change the world.
In the FBI's defense: catching actual terrorists is HARD, and if FBI agents miss 2 p.m. nap-time they get very cranky.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Do you mean bulletproof?
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Congress should stay out of it. A non-binding resolution saying that the FBI is not 100% correct would only enbolden the peace activists, and then where would we be?
That's why I hear they've been trying to mate Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver...
They want to breed the first bulletproof Kennedy!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........