As Instapundit frequently puts it – “they told me if I voted for McCain, we’d have the FBI going after anti-war activists; and, they were right!”.
FBI agents in Chicago took a laptop and documents from the home of a Palestinian-American anti-war activist in an attempt to silence his advocacy, an attorney said Sunday.
The FBI on Friday searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago, including the home of Hatem Abudayyeh, who is the executive director of the Arab American Action Network, attorney Jim Fennerty told The Associated Press.
“The government’s trying to quiet activists,” Fennerty said. “This case is really scary.”…
Which may or may not be true – not much of a step from “anti-war” to “pro-terrorist” activism, as we on the right frequently pointed out during the previous Administration. There were these differences, however:
1. We on our side were very wary of any government action which could be construed as silencing dissent. Annoyed as we were (and remain) by the bone heads in the so-called “anti-war” movement, they have an absolute right to be as stupid as they want to be.
2. If President Bush’s FBI had done this, the Democrats and the larger political left would have exploded with indignation…bunch of crickets chirping is the response that I can see, so far.
Liberals, of course, are not interested in liberty. To them, “freedom” means “abortion” and “free access to sex and pornography”. The concept that people you disagree with should be left alone to speak their minds is alien to the left. As is, indeed, any sort of intellectual independence (one need only note that on the left it took orders from on high to try and create counter-parts to the TEA Party for proof of this). For the anti-war movement it works like this:
Orders were to be anti-war while President Bush was in office; now that Obama is in office, orders are to not be anti-war (at least not to the extent of taking to the streets about it). Thus this investigation is being passed over mostly in silence. There are no orders to be outraged, and thus no outrage.
What will become of this case remains to be seen. If these people were in cahoots with the terrorists, then they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If, on the other hand, they were just causing problems for the Administration, then there will have to be a high price to pay for those in the Administration who set this afoot. We will watch and wait – and we can be sure that on the right a genuine concern for liberty will be brought to bear.
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