Friday, January 28, 2011

not sure what this means if anything at all

The Tuscon shooting has created the mainstream debate over 2nd amendment, while also one over the 1st blaming political rhetoric as a possible ignition point of the tragedy. As the story gets old, and the events still tragic get dragged on and on the mainstream has failed to persuade the public into thinking that the shooter was a politically motivated individual. The truth came out that this man had an infatuation with Rep Giffords, and that infatuation plus his clear mental instability led to this unfortunate event. In a last gasp effort by the Washington politicians to seize the moment, the State of the Union mixer with a "why can't we all get along" theme, supports Rahm Emanuels statement "you should never let a good crisis go to waste". With the SOTU out of the way, it is on to bigger and scarier things. Barrack Obama has no chance of a second term in office, so he needs a major event to catapult him into the savior role! DHS which partnered with Wal Mart to display Public Service Announcements at their stores warning people if you see something suspicious say something, is at it again. The newest videos that were rolled out, are at malls, hotels, sporting events, and more. You may be thinking "what is the harm in training employees and ordinary citizens in being aware of things around them? I do not think that being aware is a problem, but this DHS rollout of look out for suspicious activity reminds me of a line from the Pixar movie "The Incredibles" when Syndrome says to Mr Incredible "When everyone is super, no one will be"! When everyone is suspicious, nobody will be suspicious, because we will be a self policing society where nobody trusts anybody! This past week has brought up a few interesting things for me.

The state of the union address had a theme of solidarity by everyone sitting together. The President spoke about immigration reform once and for all. DHS is releasing Public Service Announcements at over 9,000 locations (chances are you will see these soon). DHS announced that they are doing away with the color coded terror threat system, and going to a more specific one that involves all local authorities. Yesterday it was reported that a book praising homicide and suicide bombers was found in the desert in Arizona....It was a book, not a bomb, just a book! Here is my dilemma: if the President wants to secure the borders from terrorists etc... won"t you also need to secure the cities and towns in the country from terrorists now too? After all you found a book in the desert conveniently near the border, and the origin of the book is from "IRAN" the place it was found has no near by cameras, and this was "Breaking News" yesterday. Maybe this person dropped the book by accident, because it fell out of his backpack that was a backpack nuke? I'm kidding about the backpack nuke, but are we waiting for something to happen? I have a bad feeling here, I have a feeling that something really big is coming, I have been warning about it for a while, but it just seems odd that suddenly securing the borders is of importance to the president, and a book praising bombers is found the same week that these DHS videos are rolled out, and the terror threat system is being revamped.

Not sure what any of this means if anything at all, but you now need to be suspicious, of me, you, your neighbors, friends, pets and so on!

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