Showing posts with label Syed Farook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syed Farook. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2016

How many American citizens are on the terrorist watch list?

  • Are any on the list in error? 
  • What if 90% are foreign? They can't buy guns here under current laws, right? 
  • How do you deprive a citizen of a constitutional right without a trial? 
  • Do they go to jail or just lose their 2nd amendment rights? 
  • Are we safer if they use a grenade or bomb? 
  • Are there other rights we can lose for being on other lists--like being members of a church, for instance, and therefore can't exercise our religious rights? 
  • Or rights to assemble? 
  • Were Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook (San Bernadino) on a terrorist watch list?  
  • Was Omar Mateen on a terrorist watch list?
  •  How does a terrorist watch list work if we're afraid of Muslims or being called Islamophobic?
Farook was a U.S. citizen; Malik a permanent resident; Mateen was U.S. born. Mateen had apparently been a trouble maker since elementary school, but was able to get security clearance to work for a Homeland Security contractor and his status as a Muslim protected him from co-workers complaints.