Feingold Moves to Strike Material Support Law

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I suppose Mark Twain’s famous quip—a favorite of mine—would be the best way to start this blog entry. As Mr. Clemens said, “Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But then, I repeat myself.”

I have never considered Senator Russ Feingold to be a pillar of intelligence but didn’t think him this dangerously stupid. His amendment, if adopted, would essentially castrate an important provision of the Patriot Act and allow terrorist organizations to legally collect money in the United States to support their non-terrorist activities. The utter imbecility of this causes my left eye to start twitching.

Unfortunately there are many like Mr. Feingold serving in Congress; individuals whose only goal is to increase the size of their campaign chest and gain more power. I cannot understand, however, how even an apparently venal individual like this could make such a troglodytic move. In authoring and offering the proposed amendment Mr. Feingold has demonstrated a total lack of understanding of how terrorist organizations operate and how evil in the world works and I would assume that his picture has been moved to the top of the “Useful Idiot” board in various terrorist headquarters around the world. If passed, Mr. Feingold’s amendment will allow terrorist organizations to collect money under various guises to be used for “humanitarian” purposes; but the actuality of the situation is that this will enable them to fund attacks on American soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen as well as innocent civilians around the world. The blood of many will be on the hands of Mr. Feingold and those who vote in favor of this amendment.

Hats off to the Investigative Project on Terrorism for their fine work in bringing Mr. Feingold’s stupidity to light. Hopefully, the citizens of his state will take their heads from the sand and sending him packing in his next election cycle.