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Title: Homeland Security Update: Chertoff Says New Laws Needed
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Helicopter Association International
URL Source: http://www.rotor.com/Default.aspx?tabid=510&newsid905=58619
Published: May 1, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-05-05 18:57:08 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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At a speech before the Heritage Foundation this week, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. needs to have a “nonpoliticized, serious discussion” while writing new laws to define the best way to combat terrorism. Chertoff said that once laws are written, the public should not second-guess government actions and claim that federal officials are overstepping their authority. He decried critics who make such accusations, despite the widespread pubic calls after the September 11, 2001 attacks for the U.S. government to do more to protect the country. Chertoff further said U.S. society needs to come to a determination as to what are acceptable authorities for the U.S. government versus what violates people’s rights. If the public limits what the government can do, it must accept that the risk of terrorist attacks may increase, he said. If the public gives the government greater authorities, it should not criticize the government for using those authorities at a later date. Chertoff called U.S. laws “woefully inadequate” in the context of current technology. He said the most significant step American society needs to take is adapting laws to the 21st Century challenge of fighting terrorism. Changes in technology have created unique challenges for the government when it comes to intercepting communications, as well as collecting and analyzing information found in the public domain according to Chertoff.
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#1. To: Hayek Fan (#0)
You mean that authority contained in a bill members of Congress were not allowed to read, Mikey? Have a nice stroke, Mikey.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
That's right. About time we had some accountability with the citizens here. This coddling of the citizens MUST BE STOPPED AT ALL COSTS. Thank GOD for Bush, it think GOD must talk to him and tell him whom to appoint in the government, as they all are such strong freedom loving godlike men. God Bless George Bush.
If the public limits what the government can do, it must accept that the risk of terrorist attacks may increase, he said. If the public gives the government greater authorities, it should not criticize the government for using those authorities at a later date.
#2. To: Hayek Fan (#0)
Chertoff said that once laws are written, the public should not second-guess government actions and claim that federal officials are overstepping their authority. He decried critics who make such accusations
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