"CONUS" Contingency Operations ?

Pres. Obama's Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano created a "newspeak" (see Orwell's 1984) changing the vocabulary of the department. The term global war on terror is now called overseas contingency operations. Acts of terrorism are "man-made disasters".

This has been a busy week dealing with "man-made disasters" within the continental U.S. The unsung heroes of the FBI, through a sting operation, arrested 4 Muslims in New York after they bought what they thought was plastic explosives and a Stinger missile from undercover agents. The would-be terrorists planted explosives at several Jewish synagogues and then moved on to shoot down an Air National Guard aircraft. By the way, 3 of the 4 converted to Islam while in an American Prison.



In Little Rock, Arkansas. a Muslim convert who trained in Yemen killed Pvt. William Andrew Long, US Army, outside the Army recruiting office. Pvt. Long had just returned from Basic Training and was assisting the local recruiter before moving on to his advanced training, much as my 2 sons had done. The terrorist was promptly arrested and had plans to attack other recruiting stations, a child-care center, synagouges, and churches. The country's prayers go to Pvt. Long's family for their horrific loss.


Also last Sunday, Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, KS, was gunned down in his Lutheran church by a nut-case. Tiller was the controversial abortionist who routinely performed late term abortions and partial birth abortions making him the focus of many pro-life protests. The maniac who killed him is no better than Tiller, violating the 5th commandment and the sanctity of life. Tiller's murderer denied him the opportunity of repentance, in the way Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade has and is now staunchly pro-life.


Three acts of terrorism and murder/attempted murder in our country. The interesting observation is Pres. Obama's reaction to them. After Tiller's murder, Obama offered his condolences to the Tiller family and ordered US Marshall's Service agents to provide protection and security to abortion clinics nationwide. As of this writing, Obama has not issued a statement to Pvt. Long's family nor ordered US Marshalls to protect recruiting facilities. And he's the Commander-in-Chief? More like the Abortionist-in-Chief!

This week while the Long family grieved their loss to radical Islamic terrorism, Barak Hussein Obama explained to the Muslims of the world that America is the nation with the largest Muslim population of 7 million. He explained that they need to understand America's Muslim heritage and our recognition of Islam's contributions to civilization. Aaron Klein reported on WorldNetDaily.com, "The number of Muslims in the U.S. would make America "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," claimed President Obama in an interview released last night.

His assertion, which is factually inaccurate, comes one day before he is set to deliver a much-anticipated address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt.

Teasing the speech with the French television network Canal Plus, Obama commented.

"Now, the flip side is I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples."

He continued that his Muslim outreach aims to establish "better dialogue" so the Muslim world understands more effectively "how the U.S. but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy, to discuss the framework for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran, and also how we view the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians."

As the Weekly Standard points out, Obama's claim American Muslims could make the U.S. one of the largest Islamic countries is not demographically true. The most generous estimates put America's Muslim population at about 8 million, which would barely place the U.S. in the top 42 Muslim countries."



Barak Hussein Obama showed himself this week for what he truly is, a Muslim-schooled, secular humanist Marxist. Note that he has not attended church since entering the White House, yet takes Michelle on a date to NYC thereby negating the argument of security issues for attending church. He did not attend the National Prayer Breakfast. On his apology tour of the Mideast this week, he issued one ultimatum. Not to an Islamic country sponsoring terrorism or trying to obtain nuclear weapons, but warning Israel not to build more settlements.

The defintion of fascism is state-control of privately owned industry through regulation, policy, fiat, and coercion. Obama's government controls the financial industry, the automotive industry, and has its sights set on energy and healthcare. We are far along the path to fascism and most Americans don't realize it. As long as Americans keep their heads stuck in their computer screens, iPods, Wii's, and don't seek to educate themselves, we are doomed to the loss of personal freedoms our forefathers enjoyed. You see, the fascist relies on human weakness and using human nature to blame others for our failures which the fascist will "fix" for us. In return, we give up a piece of ourselves as the government assumes responsibilities for us that God intended for each person.

Fascism is a type of socialism. In socialism, there is no pretense of private business because the government controls the industries, that is, the means of production. It doesn't work. Check the ashbin of history and you'll find the USSR, Fascist Spain, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Castro's Cuba. Winston Churchill said, "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

This is not the American experience that Pvt. Long volunteered to defend. It is the antithesis of what the founding fathers had in mind, for what Pvt. Long paid the ultimate sacrifice. Instead let us return to what William J. H. Boethner wrote in 1916,

"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."