I see it, but I don’t understand it.
We
make claims that we are the greatest country in the world.
I know of none better, but I still can’t believe what
I see and hear.
We have the CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE plus Homeland Security,
the Marshals Service, Navy Seals and many additional federal
government investigative (spy) agencies that work on our behalf.
We
distribute “bags of money,” reported to be $350,000
a month, just to maintain favorable “contacts” with
foreign leaders. Many of them fail to help us but they
stay on the payroll. They request arms, food and our
personnel to train their armies, yet hide our enemies
and get angry
when
we find them. They keep their hands out while placing
our country in danger.
Sure, once in a while they provide a little helpful information.
But we have reported instances when that information is ignored,
such as the Benghazi Embassy attack.
If
we do follow up, it’s said we cannot verify the intel,
so we quit trying. Why don’t we dig into that “bag
of money” and reward only those who give us intel we
can verify? Wouldn’t that be better than just
throwing it in the wind?
We
urgently need to put the welfare of our country first — put
the home in Homeland Security. We are recently
focusing on our Bill of Rights amendments. The very first
amendment to
our Constitution offers freedom of religion. Our
country has people of many, many faiths all enjoying
our freedoms
to practice
them in their own way. Does our Bill of Rights
extend
that freedom to radicals within those faiths?
Our country has welcomed many people who practice Islamic beliefs;
they have built mosques to gather in all over our country to
continue their way of faith. Are they aware of the radical
members they may be including? We, of all faiths, need to make
a stand and demand that those who display radical behavior
leave our country. Let them radicalize hatred of others in
their own regions.
As
the Boston bombing incident dominated the news, we heard
the reviews of all the attempted
terror
actions such as
the Times Square bomber, shoe bomber and underwear
bomber
described.
Have we gotten used to the possibility of being
attacked at any time, anyplace? Have we slacked
on security?
How many major
tragedies will it take to wake up our sleeping
giant and make him protect his own people — not the world’s.
A radical we knew to be a danger to our country was allowed
to leave our country and return unobstructed. We were warned
a long time prior to his heinous actions that he had been investigated
by the FBI. The reports included warnings from an area of first-hand
knowledge, yet they were ignored.
We now know information gathered from cell phone records and
Internet communications connected the bombers to an upcoming
event via the type of equipment being sought.
Why
wasn’t this information acted
on before not after the tragedy occurred?
I believe after the Patriot Act was passed, we the citizens
of the United States lost many of our freedoms and are under
increased surveillance. Radical foreigners however seem able
to move about freely, connect with one another, and pass information
unhindered. More than one involved in the Boston bombing was
allowed to travel back and forth to known countries on our
watch list without fear of detection.
Was anyone surprised to learn three additional arrests were
made and those individuals knew all about the bomb making?
Didn’t we learn from 9-11; because we taught our attackers
how to fly our aircraft, we needed more vigilance? Didn’t
that day demonstrate to all our “investigative” branches
of the federal government that
we needed to do more than establish
another branch
of security
called
Homeland? We must practice
security right here at home now.