Terrorists in our midst!

Before Roy Blunt and Kit Bond get too far ahead of themselves with the "terrorists in our midst" demagoguery, they probably need to go back and remember how outraged they were when terrorist cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman -- the "Blind Sheik" -- was imprisoned in Missouri. Abdel-Rahman has stayed at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield several times since 1995. He lives in North Carolina now, but was kept in Springfield from 2003-2007.

I sure don't remember much outrage from Majority Leader/Majority Whip Roy Blunt and Senator Kit Bond during that time, do you? 

Abdel-Rahman, you may remember, was sentenced to life in prison after his 1995 conviction for his advisory role in a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, including the United Nations. He isn't an enemy combatant, or a suspected terrorist or some sort of potential terrorist like the detainees in Guantanamo Bay legal limbo.  He is a convicted terrorist. And he happens to be imprisoned just fine with other scumbugs at a federal correctional facility.

When Abdel-Rahman was in Missouri from 2003-2007, how many scary press releases did Bond and Blunt send out telling families that the Bush Administration was jeopardizing their safety?  Um...zero.

And how many scary commercials did the Republican Party produce talking about terrorists "in our neighborhoods?"  Um...zero.

The "Blind Sheik" was even briefly moved to a local hospital in 2006 without so much as a peep from Roy or Kit. 

How did we survive?