Moral Authority

DEBRA BURLINGAME in today’s Wall Street Journal/Opinion Journal writes in Our Right to Security that Al Qaeda, not the FBI, is the greater threat to America, and she is right. She writes:

“A mere four-and-a-half years after victims were forced to choose between being burned alive and jumping from 90 stories, it is frankly shocking that there is anyone in Washington who would politicize the Patriot Act. It is an insult to those who died to tell the American people that the organization posing the greatest threat to their liberty is not al Qaeda but the FBI. Hearing any member of Congress actually crow about "killing" or "playing chicken" with this critical legislation is as disturbing today as it would have been when Ground Zero was still smoldering. Today we know in far greater detail what not having it cost us.

The public has listened to years of stinging revelations detailing how the government tied its own hands in stopping the devastating attacks of September 11. It is an irresponsible violation of the public trust for members of Congress to weaken the Patriot Act or jeopardize the NSA terrorist surveillance program because of the same illusory theories that cost us so dearly before, or worse, for rank partisan advantage. If they do, and our country sustains yet another catastrophic attack that these antiterrorism tools could have prevented, the phrase "connect the dots" will resonate again--but this time it will refer to the trail of innocent American blood which leads directly to the Senate floor.”

Not only is she right but she also has the absolute moral authority to speak on this topic, something that most of the blubbering left has not and yet demands from those that hold an opinion different than theirs. And why does she have that moral authority to speak out against the Main Stream Media’s and the Lefts’ position, because she is the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Left’s position that the Patriot Act is an affront to civil liberties in America is a position that is not only wrong it is one that places us in greater danger of another attack. It is another political power play that they are willing to play in an effort to return them to power and your safety and security be damned.