Terrorism: It's a difficult time if you're in the FBI. The recent security report released to Congress points out the horrible state of affairs our intellegince boys are in. There is a terrible need to prove that they can capture the bad guys. This week we learned our boys in black have been doing their job in protecting us from the mad terrorist bombers: they arrested two sixteen-year-old girls.

Of course it's impossible to tell whether either of these girls were terrorists at all. They are both Muslim. Other than that, we know almost nothing about them. Because of the archane laws we allowed our government to foist on us, even the girls themselves don't know what evidence the FBI has against them.

Both of them are underage and now locked up in Pennsylvania, far from their homes, unable to get reliable legal advice, and being told threatening lies like "we'll ship your baby brothers and sisters off to foreign countries unless you confess to being terrorists."

If you are arrested in this country, you have the right to hear the charges against you, including the evidence that the government has, in order to defend yourself in a courtroom, judged by your peers. Unless you're accused of terrorism.

Terrorist suspects have no rights. No right to face their accusers and cross examin them. No right to learn what the evidence is against them. They can be kept in isolation until they die, without recourse. They can be shipped clandestinely—in the middle of the night—to foreign countries and there tortured, raped, and otherwise enslaved, without any recourse.

When this process began shortly after 9/11, we were told that the government would only use these powers against true terrorists. Those of us who feared that the administration would become Nixonesque and use the government powers to destroy political opponents of all stripes were mocked. W was a good, Christian man, we were told, and he would never tolerate arbitrary abuse of the power his administration had been granted.

Let's face facts folks, the FBI has to prove to us that it's doing its job. Recent evidence has demonstrated the contrary, and they've got to arrest somebody. Nobody's going to miss a sixteen-year-old girl, the daughter of an illegal immigrant, who has decided to comport herself like someone living in Afghanistan. She's the least among us. What does it matter how we treat the least among us as long as most of us can feel good about ourselves.

Luke 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee , and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.