The Genius of Terrorism

I hate terrorists. I mean all terrorists - the ones that kill and the ones that manipulate, as well. In 2001, one insane jihadist and a couple dozen adherents brought the world's greatest nation to its knees. Al Qaida could never defeat the US militarily, but they have certainly fundamentally altered each of our lives. The fallout of that single day - which future historians may regard as World War III, and being only one day long - continues to impact us even a decade or more later. What an ingenious campaign. We blamed Iraq and defeated that nation. We chased our tails hunting bin Laden all over the world at a phenomenal cost of treasure, effort and blood. Oh, yes, we won - he's dead, but our culture of individual liberty is gone, perhaps forever. He won, too, because willing accomplices in media and the government rushed to take advantage of the nation's fear that we'd be attacked again.

Now comes Big Brother and the Police State. Nothing is held back, all liberties are lost. Make a call? You're on talk radio. Send an email? Published news. Whisper outdoors? Drones above. And it's getting worse. Four of the nine supreme court justices are hard core lefties. Individual liberties, they ask? That's for us in government to bestow upon you as we see fit. Guns? We have them, but you won't. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution - you know, our basic government framework that acknowldeges that each man is born free, with the right to pursue his own happiness absent any governmental interference - are to them merely "dead documents" with little if any relevance to today's modern and complicated world. Government says these suspensions of liberty are neceaasy to keep us safe. If we stand down, they tell us, nukes will go off in our cities, and chaos will reign. Really.

Is this current adminsitration not a terror organization, as well? After five years, are you more circumspect in your thoughts and actions? Do you begin to fear the NSA, the TSA and the IRS as adversaries that are controlled by others than "we the people?"

We have until late in 2014, I believe, to take the country back. If we fail, the concept of a free people will be subjugated by opressive governments, both here and globally, for a very, very long time.