Twice recently, we have heard of by Al Qaeda’s planned attacks upon our commuter aircraft. These threats have meet with nothing but perfunctory rhetoric from our Department of Homeland Security. The enemy seems to know more about our security operations than those allegedly in charge of them. The media, whose sense of responsibility I have seriously questioned for at least a decade, reports that our security force possesses a list of suspected terrorists numbering as high as 500,000. Five will get you ten that if the government spoon-fed this figure to the media, it is must be twice as high as that, if not more.
Meanwhile, thousands of illegal aliens have already crossed the Mexican-American border, and guess what? They aren’t headed to Acapulco for a little R&R. They are infiltrating the United States and placing additional burdens upon our already groaning economy. Just this week we learned that easily accessible technology — cell phones — now enable the unlawful “visitors” to pinpoint sources of potable water across our border, thereby accelerating the mass exodus out of their country and into ours.
I don’t know about you, but these numbers sound like an armies to me. Why have we not profiled potential terrorists? Why have we not deterred the marauding aliens more productively? Who’s minding our store? Apparently, no one! If this is a barometer of the efficacy of our national security, we are in deep doggie-do!
There is absolutely no excuse for allowing terrorists to board any manner of conveyance, at home or abroad, for the sole purpose of murdering innocent people. In possession of advanced technology and so many names, we can profile passengers with ease! And if we instituted more stringent controls at the border, we could put the kibosh on illegals claiming jobs and benefiting financially from our social programs without having to pay into them.
The truth of the matter is we have a homeland security in name only. The present administration is so involved in pushing its healthcare reform through to approval that it can’t see the forest for the trees. It can’t prioritize the needs and rights of our citizenry.
What are the CIA, the FBI, and Homeland Security doing to secure our transportation system against terrorist attacks? Must another tragedy like 9/11 befall us before they take action? Some time ago, we lost thirteen good people at Ford Hood at the hands of an Islamic zealot whose twisted mindset was not only known but also documented in his formal military records. Two gatecrashers appeared recently at a White House fete, slipping like butter past security and potentially jeopardizing the safety of our President and First Lady. Mere days after Christmas, two of our airplanes were in serious threat of attack by suicide bombers. All of this could have been avoided had the suspects in question been profiled.
Had the terrorists succeeded, the dirty bastards would be dancing in the streets in Yemen and toasting Osama Bin Ladin in the rat-holes of Afghanistan.
If these incidents don’t constitute a wake up call, I guess we will just have to wait for the Big One before government moves its lazy, red tape-lovin’ behind.
