The Titanic Stuggle.
Struggling with Deck Chairs.
As the people who vowed to protect us begin to rearrange the deck chairs in their Titanic struggle against small bands of dedicated zealots dispersed over the Casbahs and Agoras of distant lands, .....we, the freedom and peace loving Americans on the home front must question some of the fundamental assertions. Is it truly possible that an organized international policing bureaucracy can prevent another incident of destructive terror? Can they infiltrate that many cells operating with quiet whispers in Urdu and Pashto, spread over an entire sub-continent? How many are speaking now in general terms about that day of justice when the American juggernaut is brought to its knees? How much is mere idle chatter over the afternoon tea?
They, whom we dutifully did not vote to elect by such a slim margin, who failed so miserably to discern the very real message in the tea leaves, are claiming for themselves ever greater power to wage an undeclared war against unknowable enemies. The chill that descends over our rights and liberties makes not a single American feel comfortable in their everyday lives. Frequent issues of vague threats from the Bunkers around the beltway of dirty bombs and biological agents serve what purpose other than weaken our resolve to go about the business of attending to our virtues?
Is this the justification for relinquishing our Republic? In the police state that is about to dawn across the land, will heads roll at the top when boiler number two explodes? Boiler number three? Did anyone at the helm issue an apology for boiler number one?
I don’t for a minute expect that a new powerful centralized secret police can erect walls to prevent terror. Or for that matter to maintain the walls and prevent their collapse from a unique form of political gravity. What it can do is make us all conscious of the dots we leave unconnected, as we travel the bookstores and libraries of a once proud democratic republic. Will anyone speak to the freedom we lost at the hands of twenty pirates operating with impunity? Will anyone speak to the freedom that is at risk now, the freedom to debate proposals to use crisis management as an excuse to erode the fundamental premise of government of the people?
There is a method and a course of action that will make America safe from those who live without hope. That course of action is not to grant covert agents unlimited powers to disrupt the functioning of normal civil organizations. It is just the opposite.
Bob