Shorter Newt Gingich
Maybe we should have a few "reminder" attacks.
Not actually a new storyline for the right, though Newt's speech is a little more convincing. Still, this point almost makes me laugh.
Gingrich then recommended splitting the FBI into a domestic crime unit, which would respect civil liberties, and a "small but very aggressive anti-terrorism agency" with "extraordinary ability to eavesdrop."
"I think that your liberties in a domestic setting are paramount," Gingrich explained. "I would rather risk crime than risk losing my civil liberties. But I would not rather risk a nuclear weapon. ... I think the greatest danger to our liberty is to actually have the country end up in the kind of attack that would lead us to favor a dictatorship for security."
Which is a fancy way of saying we should give the government all the powers of a police state, (but only for a "small" number, we promise!), in the hopes it will prevent the kind of attack that would make us choose to be ruled by a police state who would use the threat of such attacks to usurp all of these kinds of powers.
Odd that the Republicans are in such trouble these days, isn't it?
