Terrorism at Home

Terrorism at Home 

The President has finally announced there are terrorists amongst us.  My goodness, in his recent speech he smeared the term about something like catsup on a burger.  This is new for someone who's used at most the term "extremist" for a couple of years.  Thank goodness for his awakening vision.  

  

We have radicalized Islamic participants on many fronts, most prominently given in the list below.

• Underwear bomber
• Shoe bomber
• Time Square bomber
• Boston Marathon
• Fort Hood massacre
• Lockerbie
• Kenya embassy
• Libya consulate

The US has instituted its own terrorist campaign using the secrecy of drone events. Several enemies have been eliminated.  We celebrate the result but fear the technology that allows this to happen. Here at home we have right a deeper and more subtle type of terrorism.  Recall, terrorism implies the creation of fear of the citizenry.  Fear?  We have it! You have it!  

This more insidious form of terrorism is right in our midst.   It was created by the Department of Justice (DOJ) through the sequester of personal data and phone records of members of the press.  It has been created, as well, though the machinations of our very own Internal Revenue Service through errant audits and targeting of a tax exempt status for a select few. 

My simple question is this:  Who do you fear most?

•       Underwear bombers or the DOJ?
•       Libyan gunmen or the IRS?

We may say these terrorist attacks are one-off, though carefully plotted by hateful groups.  The others are carefully instrumented through a bureaucratic system so thick and so deep it is virtually impossible to identify the perpetrators.  So protected are they that denials (I don’t know nothin’ …) are accepted, though simultaneously ridiculed and rejected.  Often simple public servants are pulled into the service of being fodder of a most nefarious goal - the fear and denial of constitutional rights. 

So, we have terrorism right here vs. terrorism over there.