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July 11, 2007

Just Say NO to the Terror

When I heard yesterday that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was telling America that he had a "gut feeling" that we would experience a terrorist attack in the U.S. this summer, I was sickened. What the hell are we supposed to do with that?

Homeland Security is supposed to make the homeland (a very Nazi term) secure, not make the American people feel insecure. With no specific threat, no details, and no instructions we are left to simply do precisely what the terrorists want us to do: experience blind terror.

Of course, we are being asked to watch for "suspicious activities," but even there it's a crapshoot. If John Doe, fresh from the farm in Iowa, goes to the big city where he sees and reports as suspicious something that turns out to be normal behavior for people he knows little about (say, a group of traveling imams), he could find himself being personally sued.

The result of the mixed messages Americans are receiving is plain. Most people, if sufficiently confused and scared, will ultimately agree that further sacrifice of our civil rights is a necessary evil if we are to prevent another massive terrorist attack.

Our only hope here is that enough of us will REFUSE to submit to the blind terror.

Posted by Becky at July 11, 2007 10:12 AM