I’m not flying commercial while Mr. Obama is President. On Friday, December 25, 2009, on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up the airliner with the explosive PETN strapped to his leg. He was stopped, not by a federal security officer, but by a passenger who was alert enough to know something was wrong. Terrorists are slipping through the cracks. Not just on commercial air flights, but right into the officer’s lounge in military bases. At Fort Hood, a Texas army base, 12 people were killed and 32 injured when Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, opened fire on the Army personnel at the processing center. The State Department was swift in issuing a news release saying that they did not believe this was a terrorist attack. Mr. Obama needs to get off of the glamour train and take care of his number one responsibility as Commander-In-Chief of our military - protecting American citizens.
A great big start to securing the nation is to put someone responsible in charge of Homeland Security. That agency at the moment is like a ship without a sail, adrift at sea. Waiting a year to appoint someone shows an attitude of complacency toward national security.
One of Mr. Obama’s campaign pitches was that the security community was too aggressive and needed to be toned down and that he was the man to do it. Once in office he has gone back and tried to make felons out of our intelligence officers and charge them with crimes for carrying out the wishes of past Presidents who actually took the safety of Americans seriously.
And what ever happened to personal responsibility? “Systemic Failure” is saying, “I’m not responsible, the system did it.” Under Mr. Obama’s watch, an airliner full of Americans was nearly blown up on Christmas by a terrorist whose own father had contacted a U.S. embassy and gave them full details of his son’s suspected terrorist activities. Under Mr. Obama’s watchful eye another terrorist under investigation by the FBI opened fire inside a U.S. military base. Even the military is not safe inside a guarded base.
And we have to be careful not to violate the terrorists’ civil rights which they have secured under the Obama administration. The closing of Guantanamo Bay, a state of the art detention facility for terrorists, signals weakness to Al Qaeda and the rest of the wackos who want to destroy America and keep us all in fear.
We’ve seen this before. Bill Clinton went on a mission to weaken the power of the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community. He succeeded. During the Clinton years, the 9-11 attack against the Twin Towers in New York was successfully planned right out in the open without any resistance from a weakened CIA or FBI. Under Bill Clinton’s watch, the Twin Towers were bombed in 1993 and Clinton treated it as a crime, not an act of terrorism. President Clinton never visited the bombing site or paid it much attention, he was too busy attacking the CIA. This past year they took some of the melted down steel from the Twin Towers and built a battle ship from it. The special speaker at the commissioning of our new ship, The USS New York LPD-21 on November 7, 2009 was none other than Hillary Clinton. I watched it on cable TV and I couldn’t believe the hypocrisy of what I was seeing!
So for now, and the forseeable future, I will not be flying on commercial airline flights. I don’t care how many gadgets we get that can sniff out a bomb. That doesn’t protect us from a missile launcher on the ground. I have zero confidence in our President, our Secretary of State, The State Department, and a demoralized and weakened intelligence community to keep me safe. I pray for all of them that they will wake up and realize the seriousness of the safety of the citizens of the United States Of America.
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