I'm always interested when liberals point to Europe as a model for the values and policies that we in the United States should follow. I'm curious -- would they be supportive of implementing this sort of policy in the United States, in place of the Patriot Act and other Bush Administration security initiatives?

Germany, fearful of being the next major target for Islamic terrorists, is edging away from its deep aversion to intrusive and harsh enforcement tactics, provoking a storm of protest from those who recall the official brutality of Nazism and Communism in decades past.

Sensing a growing threat, Germany’s top security official, Wolfgang Schäuble, is breaking down resistance within the government to surreptitious online searches of computers belonging to people they deem suspicious. He is pushing for a law to allow security forces to shoot down a plane commandeered by hijackers. And he said this week that Germany should consider detaining potential terrorists and approving the killing of terrorist leaders abroad.

Hey, liberals -- it is coming out of Europe, so it must be good. Right?

And you do support security in the face of the terrorist threat. Right?

Or do you really believe there is a terrorist threat at all?

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