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June 21, 2002
Dennis Miller v. ACLU
Dennis Miller on Tuesday’s Tonight Show:
We have got to get it together and understand that this country, people say it’s not the American way to infringe on civil liberties. Well it’s not the American way to rollover for punks either. We’re got to start kicking ass on these people because they don’t care about us. They live for one reason and one reason alone and that is to kill you and I. There’s no half way in the al Qaeda. There’s no al-Kindas, okay. These people just care about our demise. ...And you know something, the American Civil Liberties Union, when they come out and say you never profile anybody who gets on an airplane. I say we create a new airline, called the ACLA, the American Civil Liberties Airline where you don’t check anybody, you don’t ask any questions, and let those morons fly on that one, okay? The rest of us want to be protected. ...
Guantanamo Bay, are these people being treated fairly? ... No, you know, it’s no joy ride, but, you know, that being said, if you put the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison outside of Kabul it would be their Epcot.
Dennis, regarding your subtle comments on the detainees at Guantanamo: By jailing people without due process, and without the right to a speedy trial, we are ripping apart the 6th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is one of the major tenets of our democracy; isnt that what we are struggling for? The question is not whether a suspected criminal is being accused of a heinous crime...if he doesnt get a fair trial, the chances are that your rights will also be ignored. Upholding the Bill of Rights is not a trivial matter.
Geoffrey