What We're Up Against - The Denver City Council has passed a resolution discouraging the city's police from following the USA Patriot Act, which Congress enacted after Sept. 11. Denver Mayor Wellington Webb promises to put the resolution, which discourages the police from investigating groups or individuals based on their country of origin or immigration status, into police policy. But, reports the Wall Street Journal, that is exactly the kind of investigating that helped police in the Denver suburb of Broomfield to arrest two potential terrorists who were making false IDs for other Pakistanis, were engaged in a series of questionable international financial transactions, and, ominously, one of whom had just gotten his pilot's license. The Denver City Council resolution would've stopped the Broomfield police from asking the kinds of questions that lead to the men being arrested.

In the War on Terrorism, we're not only up against Islamo-fascist terrorists. We're up against idiots like the Denver City Council.