- Let’s hear it for homeland security. The brave lads and lassies who spend their every waking hour fighting to protect us from the evil forces of Godless non-Christianity, have triumphed again.
- This time it was a terrorist invasion by a trio of highly trained undercover agents bent on breeching the defenses of the nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. In the course of their attack, the trio Sister Megan Rice 83, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed both in their 6o’s, all seasoned veterans of this type of combat, were so overwhelming in their assault that none of the targets defenses proved up to the attack. The terrorists were finally forced to turn themselves in rather than have to walk back up the stairs to freedom, a tough haul for senior citizens after pulling an all-nighter.
- In one more shining illustration of the triumph of justice, they have been charged with sabotage, a righteous move by an informed (if unhinged) government attorney who obviously realizes that this type of attack on an American stronghold (maybe not so strong) must be stamped out or it is sure to proliferate.
- Among he charges for this nefarious trio are destroying government property by cutting through a chain link fence and spray painting anti-nuclear slogans on government walls. For this they will be charged $53,000.00 for restoration. Obviously the work will be done by the same contractors that are selling $2000 toilet seats to the army. But they are also facing six to nine years in jail. This in a country where bankers can launder drug money and destroy our financial structure for profit and not even be indicted but try to make a logical point on government property and you are SOL.
- For those in our Homeland Security (Is that an oxymoron or what?) who are too limited in intelligence to realize it, these three patriots have done them a great service by pointing out the failure of any kind of functional security at this most vulnerable piece of our nuclear war machine, even while attempting to also point out the senselessness of war and the danger of the manufacture of the weapons stored there._
- The Judge in he case, Amal Thapar, a favorite of the Bush administration, has made a legitimate point when discussing sentencing. “The defendants are entitled to their views regarding the morality of nuclear weapons. But the defendants sincerely held moral beliefs are not a get-out-of-jail-free card that they can deploy to escape criminal justice.”
- Tharpar appears to be a man trying to be thoughtful but unable to rise to his own goals. Just the fact that he mentions the word justice in this context, is a clue to the fact that he doesn’t understand the difference between justice and the law, which is precisely the reason why he has been injected into the criminal justice system. He is a judge and it’s his job to interpret that difference and act on it, not just to sit dumbly on his perch and follow the dictates of a law that in trial situations is often interpreted by the prosecuting attorney.
- To those with even a passing understanding of the concept of justice this entire trial is a vast miscarriage by a series of people who have no concept of what it means. This trio of dire felons have made a statement about the evils of war that no intelligent person can in good conscience disagree with, and they have done it in such a way as to point out the absolute failure of those charged with protecting our nation.
- On both counts they should be considered patriots and on both they should be applauded. Maybe it’s just too deep for the American people to understand.
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- A few days ago a great blow was struck in the war on terror. The name of the perpetrating hero in a war, on which we are spending billions every year, has been classified by every intelligence agency that our money goes to support, but his obscurity should not mask the importance of the deeds for which he is responsible, not hide the importance of them in the hierarchy of the world of intelligence operations.
- Ibn Abdul Ibn; that’s what we will call him for lack of more accurate information, has managed to do what no western intelligence operation has been able to even come close to in recent memory, that is, he penetrated the defenses of a secluded terrorist training camp north of Baghdad and posing as an instructor managed to detonate a belt containing explosives, martyring himself and killing 21 potential terrorist bombers in a great blow struck for freedom and the American way.
- Great story, huh? The perfect kind of puff piece that everyone wants to read and the US intelligence community wants to get out in the press. Only it ain’t true. What really happened is this dumb klutz was showing a bunch of potential suicide bombers how to arm a bomb when it went off and killed them all. It’s like the clown whose gun misfires and he looks down the barrel to see what’s wrong, as he pulls the trigger again.
- These are the people that we are spending billions a year to defeat – and failing. Why are we failing? Because we have people
- Like James Clapper running our intelligence agencies, people who are more interested in promoting and maintaining personal power than they are in catching the bad guys.
- This is why the trio in the preceding story and men like Edward Snowden, patriots all, must be protected and exonerated, because it is only due to the actions of such of people that we are able to maintain our fading American freedoms. We don’t need freedom to carry an AK47, we don’t need freedom to stock our cellars with Semtex, but we do need freedom from being attacked by government sources because of our opinions and for our right to express them in public, verbally or in print.
- The Oak Ridge trio and Ed Snowden are the kind of people who made this country free and they are kind of people we will need more of, if we expect to keep it that way.