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In reply to the discussion: So, you can be on the terror watch list, but still legally buy weapons!?!?!?!? [View all]X_Digger
(18,585 posts)46. I'll pose the same question I asked Siwsan..
.. what other constitutionally protected rights should be removed without due process in a secret addition to some list? Free speech? Free exercise of religion? Voting?
How about the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment and a fair trial? I mean, they're on a watch list, so we should be able to water board them without any kind of conviction, right?
If they're on a terrorist watch list, should we keep them from associating with other known terrorist suspects?
Or, you know, we can actually follow the constitution, and the fourteenth amendment.
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So, you can be on the terror watch list, but still legally buy weapons!?!?!?!? [View all]
Siwsan
Jun 2016
OP
As an old lefty activist, my heart is warmed by your faith in the FBI's "process."
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#37
You don't think 80 million American's being on the list might dilute it's purpose a bit? lol
EX500rider
Jun 2016
#13
the point he is trying to make is that it is a secret list with no appeal process
Amishman
Jun 2016
#21
If you are on the list, I would think it would be a stronger investigative process
Siwsan
Jun 2016
#20
How about the late Sen. Ted Kennedy? (The name 'T. Kennedy' was a 'watched' name for a time.)
X_Digger
Jun 2016
#23
Or to drive. Do you support "lists" to prevent gun purchases, which is a right?
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#43
I've heard Republicans argue that people on the "no fly" list should be able to buy guns
Vinca
Jun 2016
#34
Most Democrats argue the same thing, particually when Dubya introduced these lists.
NutmegYankee
Jun 2016
#35