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Visit our News page What’s Going On Here? A February 2nd CNN story reports that some Democrats in the Congress are now joining Republicans in opposing President Obama’s decision to try terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian criminal courts. The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, a high priority bill for ACT! for America, passed both the House and Senate with strong bi-partisan support. Syndicated columnist Michael Barone, in an op-ed entitled “Easy on the Enemy,” wrote that, after President Obama’s outreach speeches to the Muslim world, “terrorists did not say, ‘Gosh, now that Obama is closing Guantanamo and terrorists are being given Miranda rights, I've got to change my mind and decide that the United States is a really nifty country and that freedom and democracy are good things after all.’” Even Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, in the commentary posted below, made this remarkable statement: “There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer.” Wow. What’s going on here? These words and actions are more evidence of the tide turning in America. People are demanding leadership, action and answers. We are now nine days into our 30 day “ACT! IMPACT! 2010” campaign, and we are 23% of the way to our goal of 1010 new Patriot Partners and Contributing Members to help us fund the first wave of our critical programs for this year. Every person reading this email should be immensely encouraged by how the tide is turning. Because this means that everything we do this year will have a more powerful impact and have a greater potential for winning victories than at any time since ACT! for America was founded a little over two years ago! That’s why now, more than ever, is the time for us to ACT! We want to extend a heartfelt “thank you” to each of you who have already signed up to be a Patriot Partner or made a one-time gift as a Contributing Member. Your “thank you” gift from us should be arriving at your home soon. If you haven’t yet responded, and you can afford to do something, please click here and choose either the Patriot Partner monthly contribution option or the one-time gift Contributing Member option. (If you’d like to mail a one-time gift, please click here to print out a reply form.) If only 1 person in 100 getting this email responds today, we will reach our goal. Can we count on you to be that one person? Every gift counts, no matter the size! Thank you! Obama administration is tone-deaf to concerns about terrorism By Richard Cohen Tuesday, February 2, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102854.html There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded, reciting terrorists their rights, or the legally meandering and confusing rule that some terrorists will be tried in military tribunals and some in civilian courts, what is missing is a firm recognition that what comes first is not the message sent to America's critics but the message sent to Americans themselves. When, oh when, will this administration wake up? Bit by bit, circumstances are forcing President Obama and his aides to come to grips with reality. The original plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the so-called Sept. 11 mastermind, in New York City has apparently been aborted. It finally occurred to the Justice Department that cordoning off much of Lower Manhattan and placing a security perimeter around the financial district not only would cost something like $200 million a year but also would destroy the economy of the area. A trial there would give KSM, as he is called, a second shot at devastating downtown New York. It is amazing that no one thought this through. Published reports say that the Justice Department informed Mayor Michael Bloomberg of its plan just about the time it was announced. This alacrity was clearly the product of some excitement down at Justice -- yet another chance to show the world that George W. Bush was gone and with him the odious attempts to treat terrorists as if they were, well, terrorists. A civilian trial! Right in the heart of Manhattan! Obama ought to ask his friend Attorney General Eric Holder what in the world he was thinking -- just as we might ask Obama why he has such faith in Holder's judgment. In a similar example of poor judgment, an undoubtedly delighted Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was told he had something called Miranda rights and could, if he so chose, cease talking about allegedly attempting to blow up a jetliner as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab was Mirandized after just 50 minutes of interrogation and he, having probably seen more than his share of "Law & Order" episodes, promptly shut up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACT for America P.O. 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