They ARE Everywhere!

What do you know? I guess I was wrong. Cheney, and the other fear-mongers who've spent the last seven years warning us about terrorists under our beds? Well, I guess they must have been right, and I was wrong. The terrorists are among us, and they are everywhere.

Why else would the United States terrorist watch list have grown to a million names?

WASHINGTON, DC - The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon the government's own reported numbers for the size of the list.

"Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other 'suspicious characters,' with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of escape," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "Congress needs to fix it, the Terrorist Screening Center needs to fix it, or the next president needs to fix it, but it has to be done soon."

Fredrickson and Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program, spoke today along with two victims of the watch list: Jim Robinson, former assistant attorney general for the Civil Division who flies frequently and is often delayed for hours despite possessing a governmental security clearance and Akif Rahman, an American citizen who has been detained and interrogated extensively at the U.S.-Canada border when traveling for business.

I'm sure the American people are safer.

Those who aren't terrorists, that is.

But hey, it's not all bad. A couple weeks ago, they did get Nelson Mandela off the list.

PS. I realize that perhaps the ACLU shouldn't use Robert Johnson as an example. After all, he did make a deal with the devil.