Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Homeland Security???

         There is a ray of hope for people in many places of the world. The United States, the troubled older brother, has reached maturity. His barging into family gatherings with swagger and pomposity is lessening quickly. With so many problems in the world, what was not needed was a spark, a wild bull. He has shown true humility and seeks the wisdom of others. Perhaps, just perhaps, the violent of the world will be appeased and we can live together, maybe not in perfection, but peace.
          So the big brother has mellowed, but the elephant is still in the room. Europeans and Americans that hold to this dangerous, even treacherously naive belief ignore the uncomfortably obvious, that the present administration may have only two years with a Democratic Congress and may itself last only four years. President Obama is moving fast in his radical agenda, faster than most analysts believed that he would. The poll results that you read are fashioned and reported by a media that knows the elephant is there and puts up a big picture of President Obama in front of it. Several news outlets reported that our Department of Homeland Security, headed now by Janet Napolitano, developed a report that warns of the possible forming of right-wing extremist elements such as disgruntled returning veterans, abortion and illegal immigration opponents and such.
          The administration distanced itself from the language but that is the pattern, to have subordinates do the work and then claim innocence of it. A report as "broad" as this is not by accident, not business as usual and in itself is inciting. Any person that truly lives by the tenants of this Constitutional Republic, takes his citizenship seriously and works within the method proscribed within that Constitution is subject to being relegated to a dangerous community. Every excess of the fringe will be attributed to us. This is the modus operandi of those who seek change through bifurcation and alienation.