Dec

28

The recent terrorist attempt on flight 253 was a sobering reminder that extremists are alive and well and still want to kill us.

What I found even more interesting was that a few days later the same flight reported a similar incident. A man, also a Nigerian, created the false alert by spending too much time in the restroom. Turns out he was not feeling well.

At 30,000 feet, given the recent circumstances it is hard to fault peoples caution. But, this is not the point. In a post I wrote September 14th of 2009

http://everydollarmatters.com/blog/2009/09/14/frightening-and-intolerant/

I commented…

“All it really will take during this time is one plane into a building, one more meltdown of the economy and the behavior of rational people can change in a very bad way.”

You just saw a very small taste of this. During WWII we rounded up and interned Germany and Japenese citizens. The vast majority of these people were nothing more than hard working Americans that happened to be from nations we were at war with.

If you think America is too civilized for this to happen again you are incredibly naive. We are one attack or economic meltdown from becoming a nation of Glen Becks in the majority.

If you think that our behavior is motivated by race or religion you should think again. If a bunch of neo-nazis or skinheads or other white hate groups started attacking us on our soil we would be rounding up anyone with facial tatoos faster than you can say your name, and free speech would stop being free for these groups.

The fact is that as a nation we will tolerate hatred and other offensive perspectives to the extent that we do not feel threatened as a nation. We once again feel threatened by these extremest bastards. These twisted souls are filled with hatred. It is buried deep within their soul. 

These nut cases are not going away anytime soon.  Trying to maintain our ideals and democratic values is not easy when shit like this happens. But we must. If we do not then these evil dirtbags will have won. This is a very tight rope we are walking.

If these people are truly the minority in the Muslim world then Muslims need to stand up and unite against the extremists. Expecting Americans to do so will only result in a world that become divided by race and nationalism.

We need to remain diligent in our intelligence while still maintaining our civil liberties and freedoms. This is not and has never been a war about tanks and bombs.

One final note. I appluad the father of the captured terroist who five weeks ago reported to us that his son was a threat. We dropped the ball bigtime on this.

 

 

Dec

6

I just watched this documentary. I do not use this word very often. It was provacative. I was also scary. It was supported by fact and parallels in history that are hard to deny.

What is scary to me is that the work of the last Administration is still in place. We have become a nation so scared and divided that I think all it may take is one more substantial attack, or economic melt down to push us over the edge.

My question for the Obama administration is why are we still employing Blackwater, a para-military organization?

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