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Is the Homeland Secure?
by Fred Roe
what are the federal government's real intentions for homeland security?
There has been a major shift in American domestic and foreign policy, for all you who may have been on another planet or in a deep coma over the last year and a half.
After the horrific suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. has been on a rampage like a five hundred pound gorilla with an attitude. The U.S. foreign policy has been to not only snuff out and destroy anything that smacks of terrorism worldwide, but to do whatever it takes to prevent another such attack on their own soil.
My momma didn't raise no fool, as we Americans like to say with the double negative when confronted with suspicious actions of others. Ever since President Kennedy was assassinated and all the documents relating to his death were scurried away until the year 2038, there has been an atmosphere of mistrust by many in my generation toward our government. The suspicion is that we are all being made fools of and used by what seems to be a shadow government bent on hiding the real truth and going behind our backs with activities akin to peeing on our leg and calling it rain. What those activities really involve or what the ultimate goal is, nobody is certain, but money, power and politics seems to point toward globalism and world domination.
If that seems crazy enough, then why do certain deeply religious factions outside our globalist fold be willing to sacrifice their lives and do whatever it takes to destroy us? Maybe they aren't trying to destroy us but trying to wake us up from the opiate of economic success and peace. To me, it all smacks of Revelation from the Bible, but no one seems to be connecting the dots in the media or in our government. The policy emanating from our political establishments is that terrorism threatens all of civilization -- which it does -- but does not seem willing to consider if this civilization is worthy of saving.
Mixed in all the hoopla about terrorism and hunting down Bin Ladin and the terrorists responsible for "9/11" is the push toward "homeland security". President Bush wanted to have Congress pass a sweeping policy dubbed "The Patriot Act" which had nothing to do with patriotism but did have many similarities to what the old Soviet Union allowed the KGB to perform in the name of national security. It included flexible wiretapping and information gathering techniques on anyone that seems to be remotely possible as a threat against the regime. It allowed secret arrests, secret interrogations by secret government men with secret trials with secret sentences and secret punishments. I didn't read the word "patriot" in any of that, nor does it sound very American, which supposedly has safeguards against any of that sort of thing. Much of the Patriot Act was found to go too far, but some here in this country actually wonder how much of it was going on before President Bush pulled it from it's sheath and how much of it continues.
Needless to say, the U.S. has been lax with domestic policy, and certainly some new restrictions need to be discussed on foreigners entering the country with perhaps suspicious motives. But what I see happening is racial profiling, where anyone that looks like they're from the Middle East is automatically a suspicious character. The other problem is that no matter how many laws we place into affect, it can never relate to how prepared we are or how well the laws are in compliance. I mean, people speed in their cars and still commit crimes despite the laws and everything we do to prevent it, and that includes wiretapping and interrogation techniques and punishments. To tell the American people that they are safer is like saying the weather forecast is always correct.
But what really gets me -- what really, really bothers me about "homeland security" and all the philosophy and political chest beating going on about it, is that our government is ignoring the easiest way that terrorists can enter the country -- by simply walking. What is being completely ignored is the fact that every year, over 1,000,000 illegal immigrants pour into this country along the Mexican border, and there is a ridiculous cycle of too few border patrolmen arresting a small number of illegals and just sending them back across the border so they can try again the next day. Since many Central Americans have a racial similarity to persons from the Middle East, I don't see where there is much of a problem for any terrorist who wants to enter this country. If you ask me, the possibility is wide open -- a free-for-all -- and bring your family and friends, too, and your cohorts and bombs and plans. And in the name of the new globalist policy, they all have "universal rights" and have full permission to vandalize and plunder the American residents who get vandalized and plundered who apparently have no rights to stop them. This is the truth, but I don't hear our government even mentioning it.
Am I wrong for being suspicious of the motives of my government? Just what is "Homeland Security" and what are the real intentions?
About the Author
Fred has been writing articles since the early 1970's as a columnist. He enjoys telling the world about life in the Ozarks, Christian values and his many, many interests.
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