Porter Goss: “I want to make it very clearly understood that I think organized terrorism, shootings, bombings, knife threats…”

“I want to make it very clearly understood that I think organized terrorism, shootings, bombings, knife threats, assaults, break-ins, are against the law. I do not know of any community where those are not against the law of the United States of America. If anybody can show me such a community, I would suggest that they need a law. But that is not the case. That is not what we are talking about here. We are talking now about very specific language, and I want to repeat it closely for my colleagues, and I am reading: ``By the threat of force attempts to intimidate any person.'' Let me say again: ``By threat of force attempts to intimidate any person;'' a clenched fist, in somebody's mind from afar, could be considered an attempt to intimidate. That is not a stretch of the imagination, and that is the kind of overbroadness we are concerned about. The second thing, Mr. Speaker, we are concerned about is that we just got through dispensing with our version of the crime bill, and we sent it over with the so-called racial justice provision in it, and for the first time we have taken the blindfold off justice and said it is important to know what color a perpetrator of the crime is.”