A Willful Blindness

It has been eight years since 9/11. We have not had another major terrorist attack on American soil during the Republican tenure, though there have been isolated incidents of lone jihadists shooting in shopping malls, Jewish community centers or driving through the occasional crowd of students with their SUV. People say every year “never forget” and yet they do not identify the enemy; they prefer to focus only on the victims and the wonderful solidarity of the American people as they pulled together. After that fateful day in the fall of 2001 it took a full two weeks before the Democrats resumed trashing the Republican administration. What an achievement.

Let’s check the temperature last week. We have a president who had a Muslim father (the sole requirement necessary to be accepted as one) whose middle name is Hussein, who has declared at the UN general assembly meeting, where he was lauded by a menagerie of tyrannical goons, that America will pursue a policy of unilateral disarmament. Eight out of ten of the FBI’s top ten cases of the week are terrorist bomb plots, two of which have alleged perpetrators who are American Muslim converts.

Let that sink in for a moment. American Muslim converts.

Do you begin to see where we are right now? The enemy is making advancements day by day, in the classroom, in the state department, in the halls of congress, in the financial system. And our government has abandoned us. When asked to secure the southern border they change the subject, like a deadbeat boyfriend who refuses to accept the duties of being a father. If it weren’t for our money they would walk away and leave us for good. And like a battered wife we have stayed with them, hoping they will get it together.

Hope is an excuse for not doing something about the problem before us.

Let me urge the citizen patriots of Houston and Dallas (and Denver and wherever the next thwarted bomb plot happens to be) to contact their sheriff’s office and their congressional representatives to insist that they make every effort to see that these are tried not as criminal cases but are approached as Terrorist and National Security cases.

We have been down this route before. In fact books have been written about the hopeless futility of fighting this ideological Islamist enemy with our citizen jury system. Among the best is Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad by Andrew McCarthy. Limbaugh interviewed McCarthy May 2, 2008:

RUSH: Through the Clinton years and even prior to that, we sought to deal with this threat via the courts, indictments.  How successful have we been?

MCCARTHY:  Well, if your point of reference is national security, it’s an abysmal failure.  Most of the time when I talked about this it turns out to be at law schools, where what they’re interested in is due process, and they look at it and say, “But look, you convicted everyone. You know, you batted a thousand,” which obviously you can’t do better than that. But in point of fact in eight years we took out 29 people, which, when you consider the fact that, you know, between the time the trade center was bombed in ‘93 — which I think is the declaration of war — and the time it was destroyed on 9/11, we had an enemy that was growing bigger and bolder, attacking us about once a year, and our response to it — even as the attacks became more ferocious — was essentially to add more counts to the indictment, which is really not impressive to people who are willing to immolate themselves in terrorist attacks.

On the other hand, as our current and temporary commander in chief likes to say, our current and equally temporary Attorney General Eric America-is-a-nation-of-cowards Holder is convinced that terrorists should be tried as common criminals. 

Why? Follow the money. Mr. Holder is also a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. Michelle Malkin has urged us to pay attention to this fact. Ka-ching ka-ching!  I leave it to the reader to decide whose side Mr. Holder is really on.

Wouldn’t you know that earlier this year Holder tried to enroll Andrew McCarthy as part of his team, but Mr. McCarthy respectfully declined. Among other things he wrote in his letter of response: 

The invitation email (of April 14) indicates that the meeting is part of an ongoing effort to identify lawful policies on the detention and disposition of alien enemy combatants—or what the Department now calls “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.”  I admire the lawyers of the Counterterrorism Division, and I do not question their good faith.  Nevertheless, it is quite clear—most recently, from your provocative remarks on Wednesday in Germany—that the Obama administration has already settled on a policy of releasing trained jihadists (including releasing some of them into the United States).  Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues.  I deeply disagree with this policy, which I believe is a violation of federal law and a betrayal of the president’s first obligation to protect the American people.  Under the circumstances, I think the better course is to register my dissent, rather than be used as a prop.

Folks, we have already seen how we have to stand over Congress like parents over juvenile delinquents to practically force them to do the right thing and stop doing the wrong thing.  I suggest we continue to monitor these cases in Dallas and Houston. To me that includes

• demanding that the sanctuary city policies be abandoned and that immigration laws be strictly enforced.
• vote to retire Mr. Lloyd Doggett and any other congressional representative who likes to be seen as compassionate in these cases.
• demanding these cases be classified as terrorist cases; that it not be trial by jury but by military tribunal or domestic terror court.

Texas Attorney General 

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/cs/cs_offices.php?type=2

Dallas County Sheriff

http://www.dallassheriffsoffice.com/intro/main/main.html

Dallas FBI  

http://dallas.fbi.gov/index.html 

Special Agent in Charge Robert E. Casey Jr.
To submit a tip:https://tips.fbi.gov/

When to contact the FBI 

http://www.fbi.gov/contact/when.htm

In a post-American world, free people are on their own. Let’s stay alert and get busy! 

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