We have said on previous occasions that the thing that will drive this country into socialism, with the people willingly going along with it, is a food crisis. Some say “it could never happen here.”
They are not paying attention.
As this story reports, an Iranian ship was loaded with radioactive sand, and headed toward Israel via the Suez Canal. It was, in essence, a giant floating dirty bomb. The plan was for an explosion would carry the radioactive particles high into the atmosphere and blanket Israel during Yom Kippur. The U.S. government, for reasons unknown, is burying the story, as is the majority of the news media. Aside from Pat Dollard’s site, the only other non-blog news site that we could find that mentioned it is Israel National News.
If such a situation were to happen on the west coast of America, the prevailing winds would carry radioactive particles for hundreds of miles, irradiating the western third to half of the United States and parts of Mexico and Canada. Our western seaboard and ports would be shut down, and everything grown in that area would be inedible.
Crisis?
You bet.
And it would be just the kind of food crisis that would be needed to shove us from the doorstep of socialism, all the way through the door.
Have you forgotten the significance of today?
Have you forgotten where you were? What you were wearing? What your reaction was when you heard the news? What you felt in your stomach when you saw the fireball? When you saw the towers fall?
Have you forgotten hearing about another plane crashing into the Pentagon? And another in a field in Pennsylvania? And wondering silently “How many more planes will be hijacked today? How many more people will die? Who is doing this? Why? Am I in danger? Is my family safe?”
Have you forgotten?
For a moment we all stood in shocked silence. For a moment, we all felt the same outrage and horror that we as a nation felt when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. For a moment, our nation was united.
Then just a few days later when the shock had worn off, people started asking the inevitable question of “why”. And that is when that national unity began to fall apart.
The Ward Churchills and Michael Moores and Keith Olbermanns and Reverend Wrights saw the situation as an opportunity. Whatever they opposed — Jews, Republicans, America itself — they were able to point to New York and Washington D.C. and that field in Pennsylvania and say “See? People around the world hate the Jews!” or: “See? This happened because of failed Republican leadership!” or: “See? This happened because of failed American foreign policy! People hate us!” Whatever their axe to grind, 9/11 became their whetstone.
Over time, their hatred spilled over onto television screens. It spilled off the pages of magazines and newspapers. It spilled off websites on the internet and out of email inboxes. Hatred of this group or that group. Hatred of this policy or that decision or something that happened ten, twenty, or two hundred years ago that are irrelevant now.
All of this hatred combined to try and make us feel guilty for being who we are, for whatever reason. And all of this hatred took focus off the most important fact of 9/11: we were attacked. We were attacked by radical Islam, and it is not the first attack in their war against us, just the bloodiest.
From attacking our shipping in the Mediterranean during Thomas Jefferson’s watch, to the Iranian hostage Crisis during President Carter, the Beirut Embassy Bombing during President Reagan, and the 1993 WTC bombing, Khobar Towers bombing, and USS Cole bombings during President Clinton our country has been under attack by radical Islamists who are attacking us simply because we’re not like them.
September 11th should be seen as our wake-up call: these people will not stop until we capitulate. Or are dead. This is not a political issue. This is not a political party issue. This is an issue of national security and national survival.
So take this day to remember the promises you made to yourself on September 12, 2001. Take this day to pick up a copy of United 93 and re-live the terror of that day. Take this day to read The Falling Man. Take this day to remember the fear, the terror, the sadness, the horror and the outrage. Take this day to remind yourself that we’re still at war and that it can happen again.
May we never forget.
Imagine this happening to you:
Last night at 12:30 pm a MD State Police “Armed Response Team” showed up at our door. I was dead asleep, my Wife was laying some ceramic tile on our basement floor when our driveway alert went off several times. She looked at the camera monitor and screamed that Police in Assault gear were running up to our front door. That made me sit straight up from a dead sleep.
We thought they were there for my Brother in Law who had just been mailed Bench Warrants to our home, but he doesn’t live here and he is already incarcerated, so my Wife opened the door for them. Then I heard one of them say he had some papers for me or needed to speak with me,so I got up to speak with them 6 or 7 officers in full assault vests, etc. and NO ONE in uniform. Four heavily armed police came into the house while at least two others walked around outside of our home.
One, began to talk to me asking me about the types of weapons I own. Remember now, I was just startled from a dead sleep and I kept asking why are you here, why do you want to know about my guns? Every gun I bought in Maryland I bought from a MD Dealer. Well this Trooper said that I had purchased a “large amount” of ammunition recently and wanted to know why. When I questioned why he was asking, then he changed his tune to what type of Handguns I had. I told him I just purchased my first handgun in Maryland last week, but had not even picked it up from the Store . He questioned me about other handguns I might own and I realized that he was “fishing” to match his list of my ammunition purchases with handguns that I owned.
No warrant. No uniformed officers. Only SWAT sturmtruppen. Nothing to see here, folks… just another police-state violation of the 4th Amendment. Move along. Move along.
And there was New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when local law enforcement and national guard abridged the 4th and 2nd Amendments:
But that’s okay, because The Government is here to protect you!
Like in West Helena, Arkansas, where the mayor has imposed a 24-hour curfew, allowing police to stop, search, and question anyone they choose.
There’s also the black-clad submachine-gun-toting “anti-terror” police patrolling New York City subways.
Or what about Chicago? While Mayor Daley is fiddling while Chicago’s gang-related murder toll in any given month makes it safer to serve in Iraq, Governor Blagojevich has begun talking to the Illinois National Guard commanders, effectively putting them on alert to be ready to step in, in the event the violence gets too bad. Governor Blagojevich also wants to install Big Brother-ish speed trap cameras, and use the money to fund an “elite tactical team” to be deployed in Chicago and other areas. Part of their mission? Augment the Chicago Police Anti-Gun Enforcement Unit.
And let’s not forget the recent raid on the home of the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, that was a drug bust gone way, way wrong. The Gestapo-style raid ended with the mayor and his mother-in-law in handcuffs on the floor for two hours and both of the family dogs shot dead, even though the police knew neither the mayor nor his family were involved.
From Orlando to New York, Chicago to Columbus, thousands of closed-circuit TV cameras are being deployed “to fight crime”, despite the fact that time and again crimes occur in full witness of dozens or even hundreds of cameras, and the criminals escape. Coupled with license plate recognition systems, these prying eyes can track your every move. As if this isn’t bad enough, police are deploying military-like Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) loaded with cameras and sensors, again in the name of “fighting crime.” Over in England, Big Brother captures citizens on average 3,000 times per week “to fight crime,” yet they were unable to prevent the horrific terrorist bombing of their subways.
We are moving quickly toward an Orwellian police state, and no one seems to care.
At this point, the only thing keeping us free is the possession of millions of firearms by the citizens of this country. The power of the 2nd Amendment lies in the “last resort” ability it gives to the citizens to throw off a tyrannical government. This is why the 2nd Amendment is perpetually under attack by The Government, and it is also why it is essential that we preserve our 2nd Amendment rights.
So what will you do when they come for your guns in the name of “fighting crime”? Will you hand them over? Will you demand a warrant and slam the door in their face? Or will you exercise The Mailbox, The Ballot Box, and The Jury Box to ensure that they never come knocking?
It is the sincere hope here at FiveBoxes that we never need to use The Fifth Box to preserve our liberties. But as Americans, we must all be ready and willing to do so if necessary.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson