Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"The Department of Homeland Security was created to track down terrorists, not law-abiding citizens."

Source: Congressman Jim Turner (D-TX), on the use of Homeland Security Department assets by the Texas House Speaker - a Republican - to track down Texas Democrats. The Democrats were hiding out in Oklahoma and New Mexico, preventing a quorum in Austin and thereby defeating Republican plans for congressional redistricting. A Texas state trooper called the HSD's Marine and Air Interdiction Center in California, reporting one state lawmaker's aiplane, a Piper Cheyenne, as missing and possibly down.

FMI: www.txdemocrats.org, www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/index.jsp