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Title: Wake up, Americans: We're at war!
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.philly.com/dailynews/loc ... __Americans__Were_at_war_.html
Published: May 10, 2007
Author: Stu Bykofsky
Post Date: 2007-05-10 14:01:40 by BeAChooser
Keywords: None
Views: 187
Comments: 16

Wake up, Americans: We're at war!

ALONG WITH several thousand soldiers at Fort Dix, I was a potential target of the murderous plot allegedly hatched by six Islamofascists living in America - in the Delaware Valley.

In addition to Fort Dix and other military bases, the Navy Yard and the Army-Navy game were targeted, according to the government's criminal complaint. I attend that game every year, with 68,000 other fans.

Government allegations are not convictions, but for the pointy-headed intellectuals and TV talking heads who scoff about the "global war on terror," this is another wake-up call. (The "global war on terror" was really a default name. What we really have is a "war on Islamic fundamentalists," but using the "I-word" in any form might freak out Politically Correct Americans and some hypersensitive Muslims who are hungry to accuse us of a "Crusade.")

9/11 wasn't enough for some people, who seem to think it was a one-act play, despite massive physical evidence to the contrary and ceaseless calls for "death to America" from individuals such as Osama bin Laden and states such as Iran.

Is America ready to wake up yet?

Name it as you will, but we are at war. That is not an invention of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton and the neo-cons. If it makes you happy to think this is all Bush's doing, you'll have to explain the attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa and the U.S.S. Cole carried out on Bill Clinton's watch.

Terrorism is an American problem in America today.

We are at war not against a specific country and not against a specific religion. We are fighting a different kind of war that will last for generations against Islamic jihadists.

The plotters are quoted by the government - which tape-recorded them day and night - as saying they needed a fatwa, which is religious approval, before they could launch their plot. This is not the first alleged Islamic terror cell uncovered in America and it won't be the last. We don't have to wait for them "to follow us home" from Iraq. They are already here.

The government has already gotten convictions in Brooklyn, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Lodi, Calif.

That the Fort Dix Six didn't raise suspicions of their neighbors is creepy and chilling. They seemed like "normal people," by most accounts.

The unsung hero is the Circuit City clerk who found the plotters' jihad training film disturbing and called cops. His name has been kept private to protect him.

The guy ought to get a medal, but the government fears to name him. It's believed he'd be a target of other jihadists - and I hope no reporter outs the clerk for the sake of a cheap scoop. This is America today. Meanwhile, peaceful U.S. Muslims fear a backlash against them because of home-grown Islamic terrorists.

Here's what the alleged plotters had in common: Male, 20s, Muslim. Just like the 9/11 mass murderers.

No amount of Political Correctness can disguise the most likely face of the most likely enemy.

The question is: How do we go about rooting out the jihadists without terrorizing peaceful Muslims?

The first step is to be far more careful about whom we let into this country in the first place. Yes, I mean intense scrutiny of incoming Muslims. Caution isn't racism. Three of the Fort Dix Six were here illegally.

The second step is to round up illegals and ship them home, starting with Muslim illegals. It will take time. It will cost money.

Think of what a successful attack on Fort Dix would have cost, financially and emotionally.

We are at war. We have to act like it.

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#1. To: *Black Ops - Psyops* (#0)

When terrorists take their jihad training film to be developed at the local photo center, you can readily believe that the scriptwriters of psyops are getting really lazy.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-10   14:04:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: robin (#1)

Paul Krugman did a good column a month or two back about U.S. Attorney Chris Christie's role in the political investigation of Bob Menendez before last year's election.

I wonder if he'll do a column about Christie's role in this latest case.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-05-10   14:09:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BeAChooser (#0)

Caution isn't racism.

But it helps.

I eat cannibal, feed on animal; Your love is so edible to me, I eat cannibals

Tauzero  posted on  2007-05-10   14:11:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: BeAChooser (#0)

I don't think you are going to milk these six incompetent kooks any more than you were able to milk the pack of winos that were planning to blow up the Sears tower last year, or the pack of kooks with the liquid hair die on the airliner last December. There will always be nuts who dream of going down in a blaze of glory.

Taking your tape to a public facility for processing says either K-O-O-K or g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t c-o-m-p-l-i-c-i-t-y.

It doesn't say we need to push Bush's failure in Iraq over onto the next administration. It also doesn't say that we need to give up anymore of our classic American freedoms or cease investigating the Republican sleaze over the past six years.

It does say that the GOP should perhaps spend a little more time protecting Americans from kooks with guns and a little less time jerking off in Iraq. Closing the border would be a nice first step. As would be catching Bin Laden.

.

...  posted on  2007-05-10   14:21:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: aristeides (#2)

``They had training, they had maps, and I think they were very close to moving on this,'' U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said Wednesday. ``Our view was they had pretty much gotten to concluding the planning phase of this and were looking to obtain heavy weaponry -- and if not from us, they were going to try to obtain it elsewhere.''

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0507/051007ap3.htm

I was unaware of him until now.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-10   14:23:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: ... (#4)

Taking your tape to a public facility for processing says either K-O-O-K or g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t c-o-m-p-l-i-c-i-t-y.

This simple truth cannot be posted too much, yet some still appear not to understand.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-10   14:24:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: robin (#5)

The Republicans at today's Gonzales hearing gave a lot of mention to this case as being an example of the important work of the Justice Department.

Interesting timing.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-05-10   14:27:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: ... (#4)

As would be catching Bin Laden.

For what purpose? He has always performed well as an intel operative.

He may well be dead anyhow, even if he no longer works for Western intel, but if he is still alive, chances are he still does and so will never be "caught" nor is there ever a need to "catch" him.

I remember telling everyone I saw right after 9/11 that bin Laden would never be "caught." I didn't tell them why I thought that, just that he wouldn't be. They all gave me the same incredulous look. Of COURSE the mighty U.S. forces would CAPTURE and/or KILL ObL posthaste! Here we are nearly six years later and they are still waiting.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-05-10   14:31:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: aristeides (#7)

How pathetic an example. I'm sure they could have found a more concrete and truly useful case, but none so news worthy.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-10   14:35:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: BeAChooser (#0)

"Wake up, Americans: We're at war!"

And smirk and snarl are prime culprits of terrorism in starting them.

We should get out of Iraq as quickly as we can get people on the plane to go home, and Afghanistan as quickly as possible. That war is the only one of the two not criminal in nature.

We should then remove our domestic terrorists from office or their jobs and ship the lot of them to the Hague for trial and possible sentencing.

That is the bottom line.

Another thing, you made quite the gallant posture about the dangers of exposing information about yourself online because of possible cranks. But now we see you are willing to do so to give clout to your POV.

You do know how to pander for attention, I'll give you that. But I don't find your posturing anything more then blackly amusing at best.

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-10   14:40:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: ... (#4)

I don't think you are going to milk these six incompetent kooks

The public has become more afraid of bush and company than of a terrorist attack, hence the threats don't work anymore.

Sodie Pop  posted on  2007-05-10   14:41:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: BeAChooser (#0)

We are fighting a different kind of war that will last for generations against Islamic jihadists.

I have an idea. Let’s toss Israel to the jihadists. It would amuse them for hours, meanwhile giving us time for orderly withdrawal from Iraq.

Let’s face it; sooner or later we will dump Israel and get out of the ME.

karelian  posted on  2007-05-10   15:29:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: karelian (#12)

How 'bout we throw in BeAChooser? What a deal. It's a winner for all.

Nostalgia  posted on  2007-05-10   15:36:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: karelian (#12)

sooner or later we will dump Israel

Not until Israel finds itself another parasitic and gullible host to suck the life out of. I think that Poland has future promise as a new "friend" of Israel. Just tell them that saw the image of the virgin mary in a bagel. The whole country would come to a standstill and drop to their knees.

Richard W.

Arete  posted on  2007-05-10   15:42:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: BeAChooser (#0)

I'm really scared of the infamous squad of swimming camals trained by the Islamists to swim across thousands of miles to attack and kill Americans. I have nightmares about them.

Diana  posted on  2007-05-10   15:59:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: BeAChooser (#0)

ALONG WITH several thousand soldiers at Fort Dix, I was a potential target of the murderous plot allegedly hatched by six Islamofascists living in America - in the Delaware Valley.

The plot was actually hatched by the FBI. And you are right. We are at war. Freedom loving people across the country are starting to realize we are locked in a war against the mindless fascism that this editorial represents.

The more laws, the more offenders.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2007-05-10   16:03:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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