"If Homeland Security were genuinely concerned about public safety, they’d transfer those armed INS agents to serve as security guards in the baggage claim area, and leave intelligent, trained and — what the hell — polite and welcoming passport checkers to handle the paperwork end."
"Emergencies are when people are most likely to lose their freedom at the hands of their own government."
"The Department of Homeland Security intends to list and trackhundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and 'influencers' in traditional and new media alike. If you find yourself skeptical of this proposal of mass state monitoring of the press, consider yourself a bonafide member of the 'tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists,' DHS representative Tyler Houlton said Friday."
"Today, a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against 24 FBI agents alleging that they had placed or kept law-abiding American Muslims on the No-Fly List in an attempt to coerce the men into spying on their communities."
"The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike."
"For long stretches of American history, it was commonplace for children to be snatched from their families."
"The reinvestigation of the assassination is led by Paul Schrade, who also was shot in the head as he walked behind Kennedy in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles but survived."
"A lot of people don't realize US veterans, if they are not citizens, can get deported."
"The mob scene generated by the bureaucracy creates a major security problem in itself with respect to possible lunatic bombers."
"The federal government took 13 years of his life savings. But first they strip-searched Kazazi and interrogated the 64-year-old, covered with a towel, without a translator."