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FBI Muslim spying lawsuit against U.S. is tossed by judge
2012-08-16
A federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government and the FBI over the agency's spying on Orange County Mohammedans, ruling that allowing the suit to go forward would risk divulging sensitive state secrets.

Carney allowed the suit to stand against individual FBI agents and supervisors on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act-related claims.

The class-action lawsuit was brought by a group of Orange County Mohammedans who contended that their constitutional rights were trampled when the FBI sent an undercover informant into their midst to illegally spy on them.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The practice of well-intentioned religious practice has to be separated from the virulent, violence-directed and subversive jihad that has come out of some of these mosques and that is practiced by some of the imams. The line between religious freedom and religion-inspired violence and terror has to be established. Perhaps, this case illustrates how this is done--case by case in the courts or in the Legislature.

I don't particularly like the loss of religious freedom that is under assault. This is happening for Christians in this country in the name of universal healthcare. I do not like the lost of Constitutional freedoms in the name of security. Franklin hits the nail on the head: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." But then he was just an old, dead, white guy. I don't like the selectivity of laws which administrations choose to enforce based mostly on some wacky ideology of social justice or in some cases race (which is racism). An example of this is the failure of the DOJ to prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation. We have to have the Rule of Law for everyone--not one for law enforcement and another for citizens--not a different one for the President and Congress. No one above or below the law should be the goal.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-08-16 08:39  

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