It's possible, it's not totally out there. I mean they managed to get their terrorists pilots licenses for 9/11. A little out there, but better safe than sorry. Certainly enough libs that might hand out scholarships and what nots, to muslim students because they felt they were mistreated.

This is the equivalent of the Dr. Strangelove scene where pictures of the "Big Board" were being taken. Is this what things have come too ?

It seems to me like McCarthyism. Paranoia reaching the hill seeing the enemy at the gates when there is no evidence (as of yet) to.

With all that this country is going through the last thing we as a society need is our leaders acting paranoid. The divisions in our government are starting to rend the country asunder.

I sort of understand the twisted logic:

1) Barack Obama is "secretly" a Muslim.

2) His whole purpose in life is to declare Holy Jihad on the United States and destroy the country that elected him.

3) He has personal contact with every single Muslim in the country.

4) Every single Muslim in the country is a terrorist spy.

4) Obama has been personally seeing to it that select Muslims are being hired as "go-fers" on Capitol Hill.

5). From there the interns conduct elaborate espionage operations and pass on the information to Al Qaeda. For instance, they learn exactly what's in the five proposed health care bills and communicate them to their masters.

6). Barack Obama succeeds in his secret mission.



Sure. Makes about as much sense as most of the paranoia on the internet.

Interesting, though, that interns of ANY other religious faith are not even being questioned.

What do the honorable Senators think about AIPAC and the fact that the US govt is already heavily infiltrated by Israel? We don't hear a peep from the honorable Senators... Makes me wonder...

Originally posted by whatukno
It seems to me like McCarthyism. Paranoia reaching the hill seeing the enemy at the gates when there is no evidence (as of yet) to.

With all that this country is going through the last thing we as a society need is our leaders acting paranoid. The divisions in our government are starting to rend the country asunder.

Absolutely agreed! Well said!

It also smacks of desperation on part of the GOP. When one does not have a foundation to stand on to be heard, and one does not have anything legitimate with which to argue their position, or even to sling towards their opponent(s), the last and final act of desperation is throw feces at the wall and hope that some of it sticks.

Everyday I may become more disillusioned with the Democratic Party, but I become even more disillusioned with the Republican Party for resorting to such infantile acts of desperation to get attention, even if it is negative attention. The Democrats might be idiots and hypocrites, but the Republicans are acting no better than a 3 year old child throwing a tantrum and attempting to blame it on their little infant brother.

After months and months of the same baseless accusations being levied as if they are factual, it is time that the Republican Party put up or shut up. If the Republican Party truly believes that they have credible evidence that there are Muslim Spies on Capitol Hill, then show us the evidence. Casting suspicion and doubt through rumour-mongering when you really have no leg to stand on is worse than teenage girls attacking each other with baseless gossip behind each others backs. Present the evidence or put a sock in it. We're tired of one desperate Witch Hunt after another.

Besides, most of us learned from the McCarthy Era. And those of us who didn't learned from the War on Terror. We aren't going to go on another Snipe Hunt for something that doesn't exist.

The Witch-Hunts are <------- Way back in the 15th - 17th century...before the Age of Reason. Moral panic, mass hysteria and baseless accusations don't fly any more.