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Secure
at Any Price?
There has been a major shift in American
domestic and foreign policy, for all you who may have been on another
planet or in a deep coma over the last year and a half. After the horrific
suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. has
been on a rampage like a five hundred pound gorilla with an attitude.
The US foreign policy has been to not only snuff out and destroy anything
that smacks of terrorism worldwide, but to do whatever it takes to prevent
another such attack on their own soil.
My momma didn't raise no fool, as we Americans like to say with the double
negative when confronted with suspicious actions of others. Ever since
President Kennedy was assassinated and all the documents relating to his
death were scurried away until the year 2038, there has been an atmosphere
of mistrust by many in my generation toward our government. The suspicion
is that we are all being made fools of and used by what seems to be a
shadow government bent on hiding the real truth and going behind our backs
with activities akin to peeing on our leg and calling it rain. What those
activities really involve or what the ultimate goal is, nobody is certain,
but money, power and politics seems to point toward globalism and world
domination.
If that seems crazy enough, then why do certain deeply religious factions
outside our globalist fold be willing to sacrifice their lives and do
whatever it takes to destroy us? Maybe they aren't trying to destroy us
but trying to wake us up from the opiate of economic success and peace.
To me, it all smacks of Revelation from the Bible, but no one seems to
be connecting the dots in the media or in our government. The policy emanating
from our political establishments is that terrorism threatens all of civilization
-- which it does -- but does not seem willing to consider if this civilization
is worthy of saving. Mixed in all the hoopla about terrorism and hunting
down Bin Ladin and the terrorists responsible for "9/11" is the push toward
"homeland security". President Bush wanted to have Congress pass a sweeping
policy dubbed "The Patriot Act" which had nothing to do with patriotism
but did have many similarities to what the old Soviet Union allowed the
KGB to perform in the name of national security. It included flexible
wiretapping and information gathering techniques on anyone that seems
to be remotely possible as a threat against the regime. It allowed secret
arrests, secret interrogations by secret government men with secret trials
with secret sentences and secret punishments. I didn't read the word "patriot"
in any of that, nor does it sound very American, which supposedly has
safeguards against any of that sort of thing. Much of the Patriot Act
was found to go too far, but some here in this country actually wonder
how much of it was going on before President Bush pulled it from it's
sheath and how much of it continues.
Needless to say, the US has been lax with domestic policy, and certainly
some new restrictions need to be discussed on foreigners entering the
country with perhaps suspicious motives. But what I see happening is racial
profiling, where anyone that looks like they're from the Middle East is
automatically a suspicious character. The other problem is that no matter
how many laws we place into affect, it can never relate to how prepared
we are or how well the laws are in compliance. I mean, people speed in
their cars and still commit crimes despite the laws and everything we
do to prevent it, and that includes wiretapping and interrogation techniques
and punishments. To tell the American people that they are safer is like
saying the weather forecast is always correct.
But what really gets me -- what really, really bothers me about "homeland
security" and all the philosophy and political chest beating going on
about it, is that our government is ignoring the easiest way that terrorists
can enter the country -- by simply walking. What is being completely ignored
is the fact that every year, over 1,000,000 illegal immigrants pour into
this country along the Mexican border, and there is a ridiculous cycle
of too few border patrolmen arresting a small number of illegals and just
sending them back across the border so they can try again the next day.
Since many Central Americans have a racial similarity to persons from
the Middle East, I don't see where there is much of a problem for any
terrorist who wants to enter this country. If you ask me, the possibility
is wide open -- a free-for-all -- and bring your family and friends, too,
and your cohorts and bombs and plans. And in the name of the new globalist
policy, they all have "universal rights" (American citizens apparently
don't) and have full permission to vandalize and plunder the American
residents who get vandalized and plundered who have no rights to stop
them. This is the truth, but I don't hear our government even mentioning
it. Am I wrong for being suspicious of the motives of my government?
Just what is "Homeland Security" and what are the real intentions?
by
Fred Roe
13th January 2003
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