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Tracking The America Haters
I don't want to turn this into another Nat. ID card debate.
We already have one of those threads going.
I mostly just want to say this and then end with a couple of questions.
The World Trade Center Attack ~ The Hijacked jet in PA. ~ The Sniper Incident ~ & the Anthrax Mailings were acts that were all committed by a tiny handful of actual perpetrators.
Those few terror attacks on our country had a STAGGERING, lingering, and almost incalculable effect on the United States. I don't think there is any way to actually "total up" the true damage that was done to the U.S.of A.
Our GNP was severely affected. - The Airline industry went down the tubes - People were afraid to go out and go to work. - The hotel industry suffered - The rental car industry suffered - The trucking industry took a huge hit. - Mail delivery was all screwed up. - People were afraid to go buy gas.
We don't even KNOW how many tourists and their vacation dollars stopped coming into the United States because they were afraid to fly or visit here. They still ARE.
The psychological impact on ordinary people was horrific.
People stopped going to the malls & out to eat and adults were surrounding groups of children forming "protective pods" when walking them from one place to another.
Executives moved their corporate offices out of the top floors of High Rise office buildings. Increased heightened security EVERYWHERE. The total revamping of the security factions of our government. Buildings locked down. Highways closed. Endless checkpoints. Delays. Interstate travel to visit all of our historic landmarks was kaput. People didn't go to Washington, DC
The list goes on and on and on.
The tentacles of those specific acts snaked their way into every little area of our lives.
That continues right up until today.
Yesterday roads were closed in downtown Pittsburgh & choppers were flying overhead...police cars were everywhere...the bomb squad was called in... all because somebody threw a knapsack into a trash can near Heinz Field.
Look at the total havoc and confusion and disruption of "daily activity" and "mass hysteria" that was caused just by two idiots that hated Americans coupled with one clunker vehicle (with a half~assed modified trunk) and a rifle!
I have no absolutely idea how many potential "planted" pods of terrorists are already living inside this country. How many people already live here and despise America enough to be easily swayed to commit a random "Act Of Terror" with only slight provocation? Nobody Knows.
I can only guess that there are FAR MORE than 25 or 30 of them.
Maybe there are thousands of them and probably (at the very least) hundreds of them. We honestly DON'T know!
These "people" are the true enemy of our "Freedom" because they affect everything that is good and sacred about the idea of freedom.
They have already infiltrated and "blended in" and are waiting for the ideal time to inflict as much damage to America and American citizens as possible.
I don't want America to end up like Israel...where we all just put on the news to find out what "suicide bomber" just blew up which exact busload of innocent people or what nightclub just got blown to smithereens or how many kids just got shot in their school playground yesterday. I don't want us to have teams of volunteers "at the ready" who jump into special trucks to hurry up and go "clean up" aftermath scattered body parts and then quickly hose and scrub down the blood off the streets.
I don't know about you folks but, I WANT our government to know WHO these people are and WHERE they are...and what "known" Terror and Radical groups they might be associated with.
I want us to know about them and where their money is coming from and I personally want them to be able to be SOMEHOW tracked.
We already know that they are here. That's a "given" and it's a known fact that the only way to even begin to locate these sorts of people is through intelligence gathering.
So...COMPLETELY FORGETTING ABOUT National ID Cards...
How do we find them and then how do we keep track of their whereabouts and their activities?
I'm not talking about tightening up our borders...what about the ones that are already here? Do we just wait until they blow something up and then try to find them?
I don't want to turn this into another Nat. ID card debate.
We already have one of those threads going.
I mostly just want to say this and then end with a couple of questions.
The World Trade Center Attack ~ The Hijacked jet in PA. ~ The Sniper Incident ~ & the Anthrax Mailings were acts that were all committed by a tiny handful of actual perpetrators.
Those few terror attacks on our country had a STAGGERING, lingering, and almost incalculable effect on the United States. I don't think there is any way to actually "total up" the true damage that was done to the U.S.of A.
Our GNP was severely affected. - The Airline industry went down the tubes - People were afraid to go out and go to work. - The hotel industry suffered - The rental car industry suffered - The trucking industry took a huge hit. - Mail delivery was all screwed up. - People were afraid to go buy gas.
We don't even KNOW how many tourists and their vacation dollars stopped coming into the United States because they were afraid to fly or visit here. They still ARE.
The psychological impact on ordinary people was horrific.
People stopped going to the malls & out to eat and adults were surrounding groups of children forming "protective pods" when walking them from one place to another.
Executives moved their corporate offices out of the top floors of High Rise office buildings. Increased heightened security EVERYWHERE. The total revamping of the security factions of our government. Buildings locked down. Highways closed. Endless checkpoints. Delays. Interstate travel to visit all of our historic landmarks was kaput. People didn't go to Washington, DC
The list goes on and on and on.
The tentacles of those specific acts snaked their way into every little area of our lives.
That continues right up until today.
Yesterday roads were closed in downtown Pittsburgh & choppers were flying overhead...police cars were everywhere...the bomb squad was called in... all because somebody threw a knapsack into a trash can near Heinz Field.
Look at the total havoc and confusion and disruption of "daily activity" and "mass hysteria" that was caused just by two idiots that hated Americans coupled with one clunker vehicle (with a half~assed modified trunk) and a rifle!
I have no absolutely idea how many potential "planted" pods of terrorists are already living inside this country. How many people already live here and despise America enough to be easily swayed to commit a random "Act Of Terror" with only slight provocation? Nobody Knows.
I can only guess that there are FAR MORE than 25 or 30 of them.
Maybe there are thousands of them and probably (at the very least) hundreds of them. We honestly DON'T know!
These "people" are the true enemy of our "Freedom" because they affect everything that is good and sacred about the idea of freedom.
They have already infiltrated and "blended in" and are waiting for the ideal time to inflict as much damage to America and American citizens as possible.
I don't want America to end up like Israel...where we all just put on the news to find out what "suicide bomber" just blew up which exact busload of innocent people or what nightclub just got blown to smithereens or how many kids just got shot in their school playground yesterday. I don't want us to have teams of volunteers "at the ready" who jump into special trucks to hurry up and go "clean up" aftermath scattered body parts and then quickly hose and scrub down the blood off the streets.
I don't know about you folks but, I WANT our government to know WHO these people are and WHERE they are...and what "known" Terror and Radical groups they might be associated with.
I want us to know about them and where their money is coming from and I personally want them to be able to be SOMEHOW tracked.
We already know that they are here. That's a "given" and it's a known fact that the only way to even begin to locate these sorts of people is through intelligence gathering.
So...COMPLETELY FORGETTING ABOUT National ID Cards...
How do we find them and then how do we keep track of their whereabouts and their activities?
I'm not talking about tightening up our borders...what about the ones that are already here? Do we just wait until they blow something up and then try to find them?