Agents Raid NY Buildings in Terrorism Probe

Andrew Young
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Colin O.


The article i found was part of CNN.com and reported on a terrorist raid on a suspected terrorist threat. The article changes the information of the piece while speaking about it, which made me blog about. The source starts with saying the Senator of New York, Charles Schumer, knew about the raid and reported that there was nothing imminent but that the raid was trying to be preventive. The Joint Terrorism Task Force was sent to raid a series of buildings in the area of Flushing, looking for a certain individual whom they did not find. They exited with a black document box and that was it.
First i believe they didn't know exactly 100 percent that there was even a man in the many buildings, that this was a show for the nation and that people now know that these men can get search warrants from the government and look anywhere including our homes whenever they want and take whatever they want. The men searched for a man and found and took back a black document box? So whatever they feel they need to protect us is fine. I don't notice it as much but this has been happening a lot in our nation, but thats what we have done. We gave up some freedoms to be safe. Just trying to be preventive or keeping the nation on your side under control.. Well i see a informal social control, on how the government is trying to secretly keep us controlled by keeping our fear up and wanting this security from the terrorism task forces. We are okay with it because we all fear the worst. Well it opens my eyes and i feel like more and more of our freedoms are being controlled one way or another.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/14/us.terror.raid/index.html