David Letterman: Where's Bin Laden?

David Letterman wondered if children can find so many Easter Eggs at the recent White House Easter Egg Hunt, then why can't Bush find Bin Laden after three years of looking? Just about everything Bush has done over the last few years has been spun as absolutely necessary to finding Bin Laden. But we have not found him. For all the attacks on our freedom Bush has lanuched, he has yet to catch one terrorist.

I challenge the Bush administration to name one terrorist caught because of the Patriot Act, the illegal wiretap program, the massive immigrant deportation program, the Minutemen, or any kind of divine assistance that Bush was supposedly channeling. The shocking thing is that Bush has been given the greatest resources of any normal human being and has choked. He has a hotline to God, supposedly. But apparently, this proves that God is not all-good, because God has not told Bush where Bin Laden is so he can catch him and bring him to justice.

And as we approach our 2400th American soldier being killed in Iraq, Bush still cannot explain the noble cause for which they died. He may claim that it was to stop terrorism. But in fact, terrorism is alive and well, as evidenced by the 7/7 bombings.

And now, the Bush administration is proposing not only a national ID system, but a worldwide one:

The head of the Homeland Security Department's visitor tracking program
on Tuesday called for the creation of a "global ID management system" to
make travel easier while enhancing security...

[Jim] Williams said he wants to join forces with several DHS agencies to
develop a global identification system that would cut wait times, reduce
government fees for travelers, fight illegal immigration and, perhaps
paramount, better defend nations from terrorists.

The US VISIT chief, who already oversees identity inquiries for nearly
every visitor who enters the United States, said a worldwide
identification system will better link nations in the fight against
terrorism. In his speech, he likened al Qaeda operatives and sleeper
cells - including the ones that attacked on 9/11 - to "submarines" that
must surface to kill.

It all sounds good for law and order types. But the problem is, this kind of Orwellian proposal would encourage crime. The Mafia could set up a black market and sell goods that don't involve ID cards. Laws like this would be a bonanza to organized crime. They would do to buying and selling what the drug kingpins have done with drugs -- make billions of dollars off of illegal drugs. And if George Bush thinks you are a terrorist, you cannot buy and sell -- either you have to depend on organized crime for survival or starve.

And these Orwellian schemes would not capture one single terrorist, given the failure of all of Bush's police state measures to catch one.

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