As you know, Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, requested to see classified portions of a White House plan for governing following a terrorist attack. He was rebuffed. And he's fighting back:
"We can think of no basis for you to deny members of the Committee on Homeland Security the opportunity to review this document in a secure setting," states the letter signed by DeFazio; Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the committee; and Rep. Chris Carney, D-Pa., chairman of the Homeland Security oversight subcommittee.
Looks like things are heating up on the Hill. However, while many are concerned with the recent laws that permit a President to declare martial law in response to a problem of large magnitude, it isn't necessarily the Islamonut terrorists that we should be worried about.
Our worst enemy: environmentalists.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, drawing on his memories of Soviet oppression, recently declared that the global warming hysteria had replaced Communism as "the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity."
In making the parallel to Communism, President Klaus cited the use of environmentalism as a justification for global central planning. But it is not just the vast scale of the controls proposed by environmentalists that is so revealing; it is also the detail. There is no aspect of life too trivial or intimate (as Sheryl Crow infamously reminded us) to fall outside of this new ideological regimentation.
Their behavior has clearly indicated a deep-seated desire to control every aspect of your life; including but by no means limited to: the kinds of light bulbs you use, the kinds of appliances and entertainment devices you purchase - and even your thoughts.
Basically, while DeFazio fights to examine a policy that may well allow a President to implement a police state in the event of a terrorist attack, he fails to understand that environmeddlists are already hard at work toward the goal of removing our freedom to move, to act, to live as we wish, and even to think as we wish. Terror doesn't always involve bombs.