America is under Islamic attack on all sides, with the most recent at Fort Hood. It now seems that Islam is targeting our children right in our living rooms as we sleep while our children play with their dolls and video games. Islam has finally stepped to a new low in their propaganda war against the West. They have finally infiltrated the toy market by pushing their Islamic agenda with our children toys.
Have we gone past the point of no return? I hope and pray that we haven’t, but if Christians and the American people continue to sit in silence, then Islam has finally reached the American shores and the fate of Europe will now echo right here at home in America.
Islam has just declared jihad on our children, and the question is are you still going to sit in silence?
Please see the following videos below for a complete overview as to what is happening in a country that used to have strong Christian moral values and loved the Lord God.
May the one true God of Israel have Mercy on us all.
From this day forward, every single Christian must boycott any company or institution that supports Islamic ideologies.
Since Walmart, Target, Nintendo and Mattel / Fisher-Price wishes to keep a product on the market that intentionally deceives consumers by pushing Islamic agendas on our Children, then we must push back to make sure they hear our voices clearly by hitting them where it will hurt them the most; their profit margins.
Let me reiterate this, The Christian community in America must boycott every single company that sells products that push the Islamic agenda.
Islam is not the light; the only true light is Jesus Christ, the holy Son of God.
If you are a Christian, it is time to take a stance and decide if you are going to be a friend of God or a friend of the world.
If you are a friend of the world, then my friend you are an enemy of God, and an enemy of God will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
You can no longer have it both ways. Pick your side and stand firmly.
If you love America, then it is the time to stand up and not allow this to happen.
Tomorrow is too late, today is all we have. If you truly love your country then you cannot sit silent on this issue, or any issue any longer. If you continue down this path of silence then you will deserve what is in store for each and every one of us – if we sit silent.
Congress wake up from your sleep of immoral behavior and defend this country as you claimed you would, or leave office and someone who cares about this nation will do it for you!
This type of thinking from anyone in congress or the White House cannot be tolerated by any US Citizen. If this is allowed to pass, may God help us all…
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As I sit and ponder on the events that transpired eight years ago against our nation, it forces me wonder what ever happened to America since then.
I remember very clearly how we as a nation came together to fight against those who wished to destroy our way of life, those who wished for America to no longer exists as we know it, and even through the turmoil they transgressed against us, we stood fast as a people, and came together as a nation, putting our difference aside – showing the world who we are; Americans that helped one another in a time of tragedy, in a time of need.
Obama Speaks
As I listen to the words of Mr. Obama, I am compelled to expose his empty plagiarized words; his words of smoke filled lies, his words of deception. On 9/11 Mr. Obama spoke as if he mourned for those who lost their lives to a new enemy that arose against this nation that day eight years ago, an enemy that he says does not exist , an enemy that he wishes to protect and give immunity to, an enemy that he sides with over the victims that were murdered on that day, September 11th, eight years ago.
Yet, this man, Mr. Obama, will try to make you believe that he grieves as the family of the victims grieves, but just a few short months ago his actions, words and deeds are completely contrary to the words in which he spoke to the American people just two short days ago.
NEW YORK (CNN) — President Obama spoke at the Pentagon on Friday to those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, telling them no words would heal their pain yet calling for a renewed resolve against the ones who attacked the country eight years ago.
“No words can ease the ache of your hearts,” Obama told a crowd of relatives and friends standing under umbrellas in a steady rain. The plane, American Airlines Flight 77, struck the Pentagon’s west wall.
“Eight Septembers have come and gone,” Obama said. “Nearly 3,000 days have passed, almost one for each one who has been taken from us.
“We recall the beauty and meaning of their lives,” he said. “No passage of time, no dark skies can dull the meaning of that moment.
“Let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this violent act,” Obama said. [ 1 ] cnn.com
Renew our Resolve against those who perpetrated this violent act
Really Mr. Obama, do you really mean these words in which we read from the speech you have spoken?
Do you really wish to have resolve against those who attacked us on that day Mr. Obama?
Or is this yet another futile attempt to further blind unaware Americans with the empty words you call, “Just Words”.
Unlike others Mr. Obama, many of us have not forgotten that dayas we watched it unfold eight years ago, nor have we forgotten what America stood for in the past, nor have we forgotten the recent steps you and your administration are taking against our nation; the steps that if not corrected quickly will destroy our constitution and our nation, leaving it a country that no one will be able to recognize any longer.
Mr. Obama, I ask you this one question, what kind of resolve are you referring to?
Are you referring to the resolve that would protect those who attacked our nation on that day of infamy eight years ago?
Detailed intelligence that could link members of the Saudi royal family to groups that financed the 9/11 terror attacks may never see the light of day, in part due to an Obama administration move to have a lawsuit filed on behalf of 7,600 relatives of 9/11 victims thrown out.
The administration’s efforts to squelch the lawsuit may face a complication. An unknown source anonymously gave the families’ attorneys over 50 classified U.S. government documents related to the law suit. The Justice Department subsequently destroyed the lawyers’ copies of those documents.
…Family members asked why the administration was siding with the Saudis and trying to block their case, but the officials dodged those questions, they said. [ 2 ] newsmax.com
Or maybe you might be referring to the resolve that would allow those involved in this heinous act to go unpunished and untouched?
The Obama administration has intervened to quash a civil suit filed against Saudi Arabia by survivors and family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks…
…According to an article by Eric Lichtblau in the June 24 New York Times, documents assembled by lawyers for the 9/11 families “provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.” However, the article states, the documents may never find their way into court because of legal challenges by Saudi Arabia, which are being supported by the US Justice Department.
…The administration is taking extraordinary measures to kill the suit and suppress the evidence of Saudi support for Al Qaeda and complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Last month, the Justice Department sided in court with the Saudi monarchy in seeking to halt further legal action. Moreover, it had copies of American intelligence documents on Saudi finances that had been leaked to lawyers for the families destroyed, and is now seeking to prevent a judge from even looking at the material. [ 3 ] wsws.org
If not the kind of resolve to prosecute those involved, maybe it is the kind of resolve that would release known terrorist to do what they do best, destroy cultures and societies?
…A series of closed-door meetings between the relatives’ groups and Justice Department officials, arranged as an update on Mr. Obama’s plan to close the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba… [ 4 ] washingtontimes.com
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees were believed to have returned to terrorism since their release from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba…
…people who are being held at Guantánamo who are still bent on doing harm to America – Americans and our allies.
… 18 had been confirmed as once again having become directly involved in “terrorist activities. ” [ 5 ] telegraph.co.uk
Or it could be the kind of resolve where we will finally lay down and submit to those who wish our freedoms and way of life destroyed?
And just to be sure that no one is mistaken in the actions in which he took lets re-visit it in slow motion Obama in slow motion…
Why would a man, who is the supposed president of a free nation, bow to anyone? How does the world look at the actions taken by this man who claims to be the president of the United States?
Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard called the alleged bow “a violation of more than two centuries of tradition and protocol holding that American presidents never bow before royalty.” [ 6 ] foxnews.com
Among Muslim democrats and human rights advocates, utter dejection that the “leader of the Free World” has offered himself as a “subject” of the Saudi monarch; among Islamists, bliss over America’s seeming prostration before Salafist Islam; among international bad actors, assurance that America poses no threat; and among our allies, depression about the new systemic instability of the most dependable superpower in history. [ 7 ] commentarymagazine.com
Obama’s action has been slammed by the US media as well as by politicians who feel that the US president’s gesture was unbecoming of the country’s head. The Ottawa Citizen daily argued that the American president is supposed to be “a peer of, not subservient to, any foreign potentate“.
The Washington Times newspaper has called the incident a “shocking display of fealty to a foriegn potentate “.
…In its editorial, the daily noted: “The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king’s subjects, not his peer. There is no precedent for US presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals.” [ 8 ] arabianbusiness.com
If not any of these resolves, could it be the kind of resolve that gives immunity to terrorist and prefers terror financiers over Americans that were murdered on that day eight years ago?
Families who lost loved ones on September 11 are angry over the news that the Obama Administration has intervened to prevent alleged Saudi terror financiers from lawsuits.
…”five Saudi princes knowingly and intentionally provided financial support to al Qaeda waging war on America.”
“By urging the high court to not review lower court decisions dismissing these cases, the Obama Administration took the side of the Saudi princes over thousands of family members and survivors of the 9/ll attacks…
“The Administration’s filing mocks our system of justice and strikes a blow against the public’s right to know the facts about who financed and supported the murder of 3,000 innocent people. It undermines our fight against terrorism and suggests a green light to terrorist sympathizers the world over that they can send money to al Qaeda without having to worry that they will be held accountable in the U.S. Courts for the atrocities that result.” [ 9 ] investigativeproject.org
The Obama administration has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to protect Saudi Arabia and four of its princes from being held accountable for their alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States that killed almost 3,000 Americans…
…Intelligence and past actions link the Saudi government and the four princes with al-Qaida…
“…the U.S. Government announced its opposition to allowing 9/11 victims and their families full access to the U.S. legal system in (the government’s) effort to protect Saudi Arabia and its princes from being held accountable for their role in the attack on the United States,” said Peter Leitner, who has assisted terror victims’ families successfully in suing terrorist organizations for the past 12 years.
“…the Obama administration has spat in the faces of these victims just as (Obama) prepares to leave for Egypt and Saudi Arabia while advocating for the closing of (the U.S. Guantanamo prison in Cuba) and giving full access to the U.S. court system to the terrorists currently imprisoned there,” he said. [ 10 ] wnd.com
And if it is not any of those, then could it be the resolve to celebrate Islam in America, on the day Islam attacked innocent American citizens on American soil?
…Resolution backed by CAIR urges closing schools on Muslim holidays.
It has been widely reported the New York City Council passed a resolution Tuesday recommending the school system shut down to commemorate two of the most important Muslim holidays, however the reports did not note the holidays fall on Sept. 11 in some years.
The Islamic holidays being considered for commemoration are Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr. [ 11 ] wnd.com
Final Thoughts
Mr. Obama what kind of resolve are you referring to in your speech you made just two days ago?
By the actions you are demonstrating to the American people it seems that the words you speak are nothing more than words filled with empty meaning, words that are only here to tickle the ears of the naive and foolish, words that are used to manipulate your followers into the world that no American is going to want, a world you call change, a world everyone else calls socialism.
If you truly have the best interest for this country, to uphold the constitution of this nation, then please, Mr. Obama, prove yourself; not by more of your empty words, but instead prove yourself by the steps you need to take in order to defend our constitution, to defend our nation against the new threat called Islam that attacked our nation eight years ago on September 11th, murdering 3,000 innocent American men, women and children.
Mr. Obama, no more empty filled words, it is time to start speaking the truth, it is time to start defending this nation that you swore to protect.
Source
Obama on 9/11: ‘No words can ease the ache of your hearts’ http://www.cnn.com
This is a poster found in a gun shop in Wheatland , OK.
This is a perfect example of “Law of Unintended Consequences“.
UPDATE: The NRA is giving FREE 1-yr memberships to everyone who wants to join. They are trying to build up their membership to fight pending legislation that impacts our right to keep and bear arms. It is very important that anti-gun congressmen see how many people they will have to fight to get their legislation through.
‘Very intrusive powers – as intrusive as someone busting down your door’
Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens’ personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.
Big Bubby Watching You from the US?
According to a London Times report, the police hacking process, called “remote searching,” enables law enforcement to gather information from e-mails, instant messages and Web browsers, even while hundreds of miles away.
Furthermore, the Times reports, a new edict by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels has paved the way for international law enforcement agencies to begin remote searching and sharing the information with each other. According to the Times, the United Kingdom’s Home Office, the nation’s lead government department for immigration, drugs and counter-terrorism enforcement, has already quietly adopted a plan that would enable French, German and other European Union police forces to request remote searching be done on UK citizens’ computers.
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The Home Office’s plan has drawn immediate protest.
“These are very intrusive powers – as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home,” said Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, a British civil liberties and human rights group.
“The public will want this to be controlled by new legislation and judicial authorization,” Chakrabarti told the Times. “Without those safeguards it’s a devastating blow to any notion of personal privacy.”
According to the report, a remote search can be granted if a senior police officer believes it is necessary to detect a serious crime, and unlike searching a suspect’s home, a remote search does not require a warrant under Home Office policy.
Richard Clayton, a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, told the Times that remote searches had been possible since 1994, but usually involved covertly breaking into a suspect’s home to access the computer. By installing a key-logging device on the computer, police could track the suspect’s every keystroke.
“It’s just like putting a secret camera in someone’s living room,” Clayton said.
A spokesperson for the UK’s Association of Chief Police Officers told the Times that hacking into private citizens’ computers is sometimes necessary in investigating cybercrimes such as child pornography, identity theft and terrorism.
Further, the ACPO spokesperson said, the surveillance is directed under the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, a law passed in 2000 governing the interception and disclosure of communications.
To authorize remote searching, the ACPO spokesperson said, “The officer giving it must believe that when it is given it is necessary to prevent or detect serious crime and [the] action is proportionate to what it seeks to achieve.”
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UPDATES ARE BELOW: Mr. Schulz of WTP did email me back.
Recently, I publicly declared my support for We the People Foundation. I made a hasty gesture. The reason I am bringing this to public light is because WTP is asking three people from each state to meet in Philadelphia for a “People’s Congress” to discuss what should be done with the violations of our US Constitution.
This all sounds good on the surface, but it is also important not be hypocrites. If WTP is going to stand up for America, and her Right to exist and follow the US Constitution, then why participate in lies that claim Israel is trying to annihilate a fake nation called “Palestine” and not stand up to protect Israel’s right to exist and follow their Constitution?
What caused me to renounce WTP today was my research of them. I found their 2007 Agenda stating:
Any conference on the state of the Constitution cannot ignore the reality of the potential link between our support of Israel’s destruction of the Palestine society
Ahh, okay, does not compute! This didn’t make any sense to me until I also found a transcriber’s notes from a speech given at that ‘07 conference by Dr. Muhammad Hallaj. The following is from his bio:
When the Arab-Israeli peace talks began in 1991, he was appointed by the PLO leadership as a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks, and he headed the Palestinian delegation to the multi-lateral negotiations on the Refugee questions.
First speaker: Dr. Muhammad Hallaj
Dr. Hallaj spoke about America’s Foreign Policy. He commented on Jimmy Carter’s recent book “Palestine, Peace not Apartheid” and a working paper titled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” published by two university professors (Professor John Mearsheimer from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Professor Stephen Walt from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University). He state that not one fact presented in either work, is incorrect. He presented all the reasons why our relationship with Israel is “peculiar” and how this relationship has caused great animosity towards America. He claims this is the reason for the “War on Terror” which has resulted in the loss of many of our rights via the Patriot Act.
Second speaker: Dr. Norman Birnbaum
Dr. Birnbaum (Prof. Emeritus, Georgetown Univ. Law Center) concurred with Dr. Hallaj’s speech and reiterated several of the same points.
This is all so anti-Semitic I can’t say it clearer than that! Jimmy Carter is an anti-Semite, this so called doctor in philosophy is an anti-Semite and WTP’s desire to have such characters speaking at their conference is disgusting and is alsoanti-Semitic!
None of which have anything to do with our Constitution, Founding Fathers or bringing this Nation back to its original intent!
I won’t drag this on and on, but suffice it to say, I no longer support We the People Foundation, and have written them a letter to my reasons, and will post any response back from them if they give any.
I will not support ANY so called “pro-American” organization that doesn’t have a grasp of the evils of Islam, and it’s agenda to destroy all that refuse to submit to its ways, which begins with the front and center goal of annihilating the Israeli state!
Conservatives need to get a grip. My email box is full of right wing trash talk (sorry, I’m peeved this morning) about Obama’s fake birth certificate, his alleged covert Islamism and Hillary’s scandals. Worse, we were running a frontpage story on this last wild goose until I canned it.
Conservatives need to get a grip? okay, that sounds original Dave.
Since not everybody is following me at this point, let’s take them one at a time. First, the birth certificate. Is Obama a legitimate president of the United States? Well, let me put it to you this way: 64 million Americans voted to elect Barack Obama. Do you want to disenfranchise them? Do you think it’s possible to disenfranchise 64 million Americans and keep the country? And please don’t write me about the Constitution. The first principle of the Constitution is that the people are sovereign. What the people say, goes. If you think about it, I think you will agree that a two-year billion dollar election through all 50 states is as authoritative a verdict on anything as we are likely to get. Barack Obama is our president. Get used to it.
I can’t believe it! Let me get this straight: Obama wipes his butt with the Constitution which creates the very office Obama seeks to commandeer, and let me remind you–men died for, and we are suppose to choose peace over not offending 64 million people who were hypnotized into voting for this 2-bit lawyer with no experience using Saul Alinksy tactics who consorts with anti-American terrorists? Peace no matter what? Is that what you’re saying, Horowitz? I guess if Obama was 18 and got 64 million votes it shouldn’t matter, right? That’s what you’re arguing!
And what could conservatives be thinking when they push this issue as though it were important (as The American Thinker did last week)? Do we want to go challenging the legitimacy of an election that involved 120 million voters?
I can’t believe what I’m hearing Horowitz saying here! If it’s wrong, it’s wrong. PERIOD! What’s more important? Our Constitution or a lie and the end result of someone being offended? I thought Presidents were the Chief Law Enforcers? Not the Chief Law Breakers.
Have we become deranged leftists like Al Gore who would attack the one binding thread that makes us a nation despite our differences?
What is this binding thread? If it’s not the Constitution, then what is it? It sure isn’t the Bill of Rights anymore because we have passed laws threatening fines and jail time for those who say the wrong thing, forgive me, I mean think the wrong thing!
The mystique of elections is the American covenant.
No it isn’t David Horowitz!!! You ought to know better than that. We aren’t stupid, and majority rule is not the binding thread!! What the hell are you talking about? Have you lost your mind? You will not find the word Democracy, NOT ONCE, in any founding document.
I will not “just get over” seeing the violation of that document, not for Obama, not for your fear of civil war, not for fear of a secession, not anything!
Respect it. Barack Obama is the president of the United States. Get used to it.
He is NOT the president of these united States UNTIL those electors vote, and that will happen after the Supreme Court ensures that he is QUALIFIED to take that seat! We now have to take this route since the DNC and the media REFUSED to vet him properly by asking tough questions and doing their homework. Did you ask the tough questions, Horowitz? If so, what answers did you get back? crickets chirping
I’m not even going to go into the Hussein idiocy. Obama spent 20 years in Reverend Wright’s Trinity Church. There is much that was wrong with that, but being a Muslim isn’t one of them.
Not to you maybe, but it is something to the muzzies of the world. I have a question for you Dave, what would you be called if you had a muzzie daddy, and went to a muzzie school, and then just decided you weren’t muzzie anymore? Would Islam just release you from your obligation with the snap of a finger?
And the Hillary thing. Get real. Please. Obama was elected in large part by a leftist crusade for hope and CHANGE. Now, as president-elect he has just formed the most conservative foreign policy team since John F. Kennedy, one well to the right of Bill Clinton. Where is your gratitude for that? What is more relevant in his Hillary Clinton pick — her prickly past or the fact that except for Joe Lieberman, she is the Democrat most identified with support for the Iraq War?
Oh, yes, Hill can be so trusted! The socialized health care queen. How about Daschel, Mr. Pro-abort himself, and Rahm baby! Yeah, he’s great. We’ll see how this so called conservative team works out.
Perhaps I should repeat that. Hillary Clinton is the Democrat MOST IDENTIFIED WITH REMOVING SADDAM HUSSEIN BY FORCE. She lost a presidency over it. So whatever low opinion you may have about Hillary, on foreign policy she is the very best choice for that position that conservatives could expect to get. Even better, because the ONLY issue that really divided Hillary and Obama was the Iraq War. So this is President Obama’s way of saying, ok now that I’m in office I’m going to put my anti-war commitments aside and put the defense of the country first. And in case you didn’t get that, I’m going to keep George Bush’s Secretary of Defense in place, and I’m going to appoint a conservative Marine general as my National Security Advisor.
This is like smoking the bees to pacify them, David. Horowitz, none of this matters if he is unqualified to serve because he is an illegal. He knows the conservatives are hot on his trail and can it be that he thinks this is the way to quiet us down?
Maybe some conservatives out there have forgotten, but Clinton’s Secretary of Defense Les Aspin was an anti-Vietnam activist. So were his two National Security Advisers, Tony Lake and Sandy Berger. In fact they met Clinton in the anti-war movement. Conservatives should be cheering right now, not chasing red herrings.
And let me remind you David, that Obama’s campaign started in Bill Ayer’s living room. Remember Bill Ayers? Domestic terrorist? Let’s see, anti-war activists verses actual domestic terrorists–What weighs heavier in the balance, David?
You are blaming conservatives for what is going on right now. This is not the fault of conservatives, it is solely the fault of Obama and Obama alone, NOT conservatives. It’s not even his enabler’s fault.
If he would produce the original genuine vault certificate of his birth all of this would go away. The fact that he hasn’t should alarm the crap out of you. The fact that he spent one million dollars hiding it should alarm you. The fact that he went to Hawaii to get it selaed should send shivers up and down your spine. The fact that the certification on the factcheck website is a forgery should send you to the sheriff’s office seeking a warrant for his arrest because it is a felony.
What about the passport he used when he illegally went to Pakistan? How about the fact that he was in Kenya trying to over throw a legally held political seat filled with a pro-american for his cousin Odinga the Marxist and Islamic sympathizer. What about the fact that his draft registration is a forgery, another felony?
But instead, you blame the conservatives. Obama is to blame and only him! Not the conservatives who care for our American fabric, and culture, our Constitution, and understand what it means to have an unbending SPINE! Don’t you dare give this blame-shifting narcissist a pass on these critical constitutional questions! Don’t make excuses, and don’t brush it off!
I understand your motive for wanting to shift blame. You want to avoid a civil war, but it doesn’t work that way! You want to keep the peace, but at what price and for how long? There is only one way to make it go away, and only Obama can make it happen. If he refuses, I am resisting him, I will never acknowledge him as a legitimate president as he has wiped his ass with a document MY forefathers shed their blood, and let me repeat, the document that actually creates the seat he desires at all costs!
Your forefathers may not have shed their blood for our Independence, but I have family members who died for this country! But who cares right? Anything for peace!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Ben Franklin
And why is this necessary? Primarily “to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack.” Of course, to call the Muslim community in America to account and compel it to stop teaching Sharia supremacism and hatred of Jews and Christians — that would be “bigoted.” Of course, to halt Muslim immigration in light of the impossibility of distinguishing peaceful Muslims from actual and potential jihadists — that would be racist. Of course, even to institute some kind of screening of Muslims who enter the country in order to determine their adherence to Sharia principles and to make agitation for Islamic law (stonings, amputations, no free speech, no freedom of conscience, etc.) in this country grounds for deportation — that would be “Islamophobic.”
So if we can’t do all that or even anything close to those things, what is left? What can we do? Why, become a Police State, with armed troops roaming the streets. After all, the next terror threat could just as easily come from the local Methodist church as from the local mosque. Better have that Wesleyan Center adequately covered.
“Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security,” by Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson for the Washington Post, December 1 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.The long-planned shift in the Defense Department’s role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military’s role in domestic law enforcement.
But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response — a nearly sevenfold increase in five years — “would have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable,” Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But the realization that civilian authorities may be overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted “a fundamental change in military culture,” he said….
As I sit and ponder on the events that transpired eight years ago against our nation, it forces me wonder what ever happened to America since then.
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