The number of people in the list is sickening, I would love to see if Obama's name is on that list. I bet their would be an outcry if this was so.

Simple math suggests that if this is true, the FBI believes one in every three hundred people in the US is a terrorist. That would mean that practically every single person in this country knows at least one terrorist. I don't buy it. Either the ACLU is exaggerating or the FBI is completely nuts. Unfortunately for all of us, either could be true and neither would be very comforting.

So what's the problem?

Jeez, if they'd just list all the names in the Republican party, or at least the entire Bush white house admin and all his former employees that have left under duress, or resigned, and the major GOP supporters... we'd have all the domestic terrorists in one group.

"Which would raise a new question: Where are so many domestic terrorists coming from?"
Or maybe, just maybe, some on the list aren't actually terrorists. It is a list of "known or suspected terrorists", and the FBI has been casting a wide net.

It'd be interesting to know what qualifies an individual to be added to this list. Some democrats in congress want people named on the list to lose their 2nd amendment rights, yet for all we know they've never done anything wrong.

For all we know, it may just take a disagreement with a local cop or other official to get your name on the 'terror watch list,' and I don't believe there's any way to appeal and get your name removed. This could simply be a list of 'enemies of the state' and I'd be willing to bet it's full of names who've never actually done anything wrong.

We need to know how a person qualifies for the list, how a person can find out if they're on it and a process for contesting their place on the list. At least for US citizens with no link to terrorist organizations. This is dangerous stuff right here!

Who should be surprised? The ACLU has been ANTI-AMERICAN for years. Their names should be on the list and erase the names they have put down...for they have been ANTI-CONTITUTION and ANTI-EVERYTHING AMERICA HAS STOOD FOR SINCE THE BEGINNING....HUMM...PERHAPS THEY ARE 'THOSE' WHO WANT TO BE 'MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE'. They don't realize that "....He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure."
Psalms 2:4-5

these DC crimminals are afraid of the people.

It is more likely that the increase in the numbers of "watched" persons on the 'list' are due to an expanded definition of terror suspects. The list probably now contains the names of persons that have spoken out against the Bush administration and persons in the peace movement. Also it probably contains the names of felons of any description (esp. those convicted of drug and morality type crimes which this regime would consider possible potential terrorists due to the intense resentment at being handled so brutally in the politically motivated justice system.) Empires have always had to look over their shoulders like any schoolyard bully would.

Anti-American ACLU??

"Stop throwing the constitution in my face, it's just a g##d##n piece of paper." -Dictator Bush 12:9-05

Stop throwing the Bible in our faces, it's just just a g##d##n book.

So 15,000 Americans are terrrrrrists?

Really? Is Bush at the top of the list?

The list is probably being expanded to include those who have critcized our out of control federal government, those who have visited alternative news sites on the Internet, both left and right, and those who frequent websites critical of the war, Bush, the impending police state, anything that challenges elite agendas and power. "Terrorism" is just a ruse to control the American people.

Rather or not the ACLU's number sounds outrageous, the fact is,the Department of Justice's Inspector General reported the FBI watch list was at 700,000 names, and growing at 20,000 names per month and that alone should be alarming people. That means sooner or later everyone will have their name on the list. The problems created from being added to the list from getting on a plane and/or somewhere else in their daily lives is going to be made difficult and they/you will not know why.
Our country and/or any other country should not be afraid of making that list should be made public so as to quickly correct the situation.
Someone from the F.B.I. can say they correct this list all the time, but again how do you know for sure and once on the list how do you know how soon you come off of it after a mistake.
This is insanity. If we ever had that large of a problem with terrorist to begin with, our borders and everything else would have been cut off and our troops would be protecting us. Nothing like living in fear to make sure you are willing to hand over your freedoms.

It's important to get the news out to the people, but what can we DO about it? We all know the problem, where is the solution?

Gee. Where are they going to get all that money to watch 900,000 people? Maybe they should create more prisons. Did I say that? How Anti-American of me.

I'm scared of all the domestic terrorists,Do the FEMA camps have enough room for them all? What if some get past the screeners or escape? Who is going to protect us? Tell them I am not a thought criminal. I trust my government,I trust my government,I trust my government.
Don't let them take me away.NOOOOooo BAM klink.

FASCISM

What has happened to this country since Bush was INSTALLED as president? We soon won't have a country left! I have never seen police meaner or more brutal, I have never seen a time since McCarthey when anyone with a different take on things was automatically a communist! No wonder several million Americans have left!

I would like to see every member of the Council on Foreign Relations on U.S. Terror Watch Lists.

...And several years from now, the list should grow to about a billion at this rate. Right?

Leave me alone I'm too freaking lazy to do stuff!

You have to view the list from the perspective of the criminals in the Whitehouse, the CFR and the AIPAC controlled Congress. Any true patriot who upholds the Constitution is a threat. Any free citizen that can still think and knows his rights is a threat. Any U.S. citizen who is aware of the fascist takeover of our government and who wants to "throw off such government" as the Declaration of Independence requires we do, is a threat and by their skewed definition, a terrorist. THEY are for whom the newly built concentration camps are waiting.
Bush said it, "You are either for us,[the global fascist coup] or you are against us." It's all in your perspective. He didn't bother to tell the American people that we no longer have a country.

Ladies and Gentlemen--introducing the NEW Soviet Union! And remember, torture WILL be used to extract "confessions." Oh wait--there's a difference--in the USSR everyone was guaranteed a job!

Papers please... did you know your name is on the no access list? Why are you trying to drive into this sector? Are you a terrorist?

Step out of zee car pleaz.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!! The deomrats won't save you and neither will the reichpubilcans!

Obtain and publish the names on the list.

Of course, this begs the question: what is the criteria for being put on the list? Would calling the president an idiot get you there? Not believing the governments lies? Hell, why bother casting a wide net? Just consider every breathing American citizen a potential terrrorist? It would be much easier, and it would make just as much sense. It appears that the truth is the government has declared war on their own citizens.

Terrorist = Farmers, self-sufficient Americans, teachers, parents with good advise, neighbors who warn of money meltdowns, interested news seekers, consumers who sound off about poisons in their groceries in public, people with scary opinions about whatever our government is up to, anyone with an opinion against war...

And I lhope they get the complete population of the U.S.- esp. those who walk and drive holding cell phones - those indifferent to the goings on.

For 2 reasons:

-what are the scum ptb going to do with us all?
-I'm looking forward to the squawks of protests and indignation to the general populace

only THEN, will the sheeple do something!

Zinglesloff.... Why does it have to be the GOP I say
all politicians need to be on that list! And don't forget all members of the Congress and Senate.

And don't forget the United Nations etc. etc. etc.

Why do people write trash like this
if the FBi says it is classified then
any figure given out by any agency is more than likely a miss leading out fraudulent figure and then to just extrapolate and come up with what you call not outlandish.lol
it is preposterous that this crap is even taken serious

with 12 million dead Iraqi how many were terrorists 0000
how many were murdered in cold blood
how many raped
how many were tortured
just how many people that did this to this third world country that was disarmed
are on that list surely they must be all on it for they are the only terrorists that are ever likely to be in America.Americans sleep walking into their worse nightmare.

This is a "political enemies list" very much like ole Tricky Dicky had in the 60's. Like Georgie Porgie said, "Either you're with me or against me." Now, I realize he said "with us or against us" but it was clear to me what he meant. This is only going to get worse. The roundup is coming soon. Hahahaha

Wally

Govt polies have created 900,000 terrorists and climbing since America is playing GOD around the World and let everything else fall apart here even your safety is at risk,etc.

Vera,
only THEN, will the sheeple do something!

By then, it will be too late. You squawk, you end up a 'clipped' sheeple.

If only 5% of the list is US citizens -what is the break down of the list by nationality?

"... This is an historic moment. We have in this past year made great progress in ending the long era of conflict and cold war. We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations *a new world order* -- a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful -- and we will be -- we have a real chance at this *new world order*, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders. ..." (January 16, 1990)

"... We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. *Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.* From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

"... this legislation gives law enforcement officials better tools to put an end to financial counterfeiting, smuggling and money-laundering. Secondly, it gives intelligence operations and criminal operations the chance to operate not on separate tracks, but to share vital information so necessary to disrupt a terrorist attack before it occurs.

Surveillance of communications is another essential tool to pursue and stop terrorists. ... This new law that I sign today will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including e-mails, the Internet, and cell phones.

... Under this new law, warrants are valid across all districts and across all states. And, finally, the new legislation greatly enhances the penalties that will fall on terrorists or anyone who helps them.

Remember...

Remember, in a country that was evolving much like our own, there was a struggle for power that led its citizens into a nightmare relm that evolved into war and lasted for several years with millions dead.

It all happened because the Law was subverted to give certain individuals all the power.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

Take this one step further...

"Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it"