{"id":16370,"date":"2009-12-27T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16370"},"modified":"2009-12-27T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T15:03:00","slug":"can-we-stop-pretending-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16370","title":{"rendered":"Can we stop pretending now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in June, the FBI admitted that they were investigating Carlos Bledsoe<\/a> before he shot two soldiers in Little Rock, AR.<\/p>\n

The investigation was in its preliminary stages, authorities said, and was based on the suspect’s travel to Yemen and his arrest there for using a Somali passport. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Early last month, after Nidal Hasan shot scores of his fellow soldiers at Fort hood, we were treated to nightly admissions from federal government law enforcement agency representatives who paraded across our TV screens doing the “infantry salute” while telling us that Hasan hadn’t been considered a threat to anyone.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the latest attempt on innocent Americans, the Christmas fireworks display on Northwest Flight 253, we’re hearing more of the same drivel<\/a> from federal apologists; <\/p>\n

Four weeks ago, Abdulmutallab’s father told the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, that he was concerned about his son’s religious beliefs. This information was passed on to U.S. intelligence officials.<\/p>\n

Abdulmutallab received a valid U.S. visa in June 2008 that is good through 2010.<\/p>\n

His is one of about 550,000 names in the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database, known as TIDE, which is maintained by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center and was created in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Intelligence officials said they lacked enough information to place him in the 400,000-person terror watch list or on the no-fly list of fewer than 4,000 people who should be blocked from air travel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His father, for Pete’s sake, warned our protectors in the federal government. Are you going to tell me that we just yesterday learned about his trips to Yemen<\/a> before he boarded the flight to Amsterdam? Really? <\/p>\n

There’s a reason it’s called a TERRORIST WATCH LIST. You illiterate baboons in the Federal government are supposed to WATCH people on the list – it’s right there in the name! Maybe you could if you weren’t so damn busy looking for a tube of toothpaste in checked luggage so you could put the tube in a baggie and leave a scolding message in the luggage. <\/p>\n

Can we please stop pretending that we’re not at war and that no one except tiny blue-haired Baptist grannies from Alabama present us with a threat?<\/p>\n

While we’re at it, can we please stop pretending that this is not a religious war? The Left frames it in terms of a class war – the terrorists have no choice but to fight the evil West because they’re so poor. Hasan was a college-educated doctor (educated at tax payer expense, by the way). Abdulmutallab, was educated at university in Great Britain, lived in a $4 million apartment, was the son of Nigeria’s leading banker. <\/p>\n

So can we just stop pretending that this war isn’t happening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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