I guess all the post-election goings-on are getting everyone whipped into a lather. This includes ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was in New Hampshire speaking over the weekend.

His comments included such pearls as this, in reference to the Muslim clerics put off a plane in Minneapolis a week or two ago:

“Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists,” Gingrich said.

Pretending to be terrorists? This makes zero sense to me. And while the particulars of that case aren’t that fresh in my mind, it struck me that people were frightened by these guys’ behavior. If the Muslims did anything wrong, it was “disobeying a flight attendant”, not that they had a group prayer on the plane. Oh, and people were scared, meaning that all these imam’s actions therefore were “suspicious.” Talk about the terrorists’ winning.

But what really got me was the last paragraph of the article; I don’t know how I missed hearing about this:

Gingrich said last month the United States might have to accept new curbs of First Amendment rights to fight terrorism.

Looks like Newty has gone from the “Contract with America” to the “Contract on America.”

-k-

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