Right now we are in the midst of a vicious circle. People are concerned about their safety so the totalitarians who run the administration and DHS tell them they need increased security to protect them. The increased security raises the level of apprehension so the people demand more security. The totalitarians are more then happy to oblige and tighten security further. This raises the level of apprehension …

I’m not sure how to end it. Our CongressCritters are afraid to step the security down for fear of being criticized when something happens; they’d rather subject the peasants to more restriction than take the risk of being criticized.

The current socialist administration is more than happy to clamp down, a totalitarian police state is their ultimate goal anyway so this fit their needs nicely.

Another terrorist attack will occur; who, when and where I have no idea but it will happen. What happens after is perhaps even more important than the attack itself. The current administration will be more than happy to capitalize on the "crisis" that will result.

The terrorists have already won, they have our government doing their dirty work against us.

I can think of lots of ways to reassert our liberty and still have the level of safety that Americans are entitled to. But it requires a sea change in our attitudes about the role of citizens and the government; a sea change in the acceptance of our rights and responsibilities; a sea change in the relationship of citizens with each other; a sea change that is probably not possible given the gap between the people who would be free and the people who think they have the right to run our lives.

It may be too late; we may sink into a police state because we can’t agree on our personal rights and responsibilities. And that is the way the greatest experiment in self-government in the sorry history of man ends, not with a bang but a whimper.

The Israeli approach to aviation security is to look for bad guys.
Our approach is to assume everyone is a bad guy and spend our time and
resource looking for weapons. TSA takes away your nail clippers (yeah
they say they don’t but they do) and then the airline gives you a knife
and fork for your meal. They take away your scissors and then let a
passenger board with knitting needles. They make you take off your
shoes and then allow ball point pens aboard the aircraft. Any properly
trained fighter can kill with a fork, a knitting needle or a ball point
pen.

But for the terrorists it isn’t about killing
individuals in the cabin, that’s a waste of time and effort; its about
the entire aircraft. The cockpit is sort-of-secured so taking over the
aircraft and turning it into a cruise missile is not likely any longer.
What’s left? Blowing up the aircraft in flight. Logically searching for
and seizing individual weapons is a waste of time and effort.Thus far
the terrorists have sent half-wits not trained fighters. All of which
tells me me they did not care whether the bombs carried by the shoe
bomber or the underware bomber went off or not. I think Al Queda’s view
was if the bombs went off and took down the airplane it would be an
unexpected bonus. But they also know that if that happened we’d be
unlikely to know exactly what it was. They wanted the bombs to be found.
The real purpose was to send us down the rabbit hole trying to
“protect” against half-wit bombers.

Al Queda is playing us
like a fine violin. They can keep doing this rubbish using half-wit
mules from some Pakistani madrasa with a half-kilo of $10 home made
PETN and watch us implode with layer after layer of phony security. We
will tie the country in knots, p*ss off the citizenry and all to what
end?

We think TSA is theater, the REAL theater is what AL Queda is doing to us.

We are faced with a true sea change in America. The radical left has taken firm control of the Democratic Party and is moving to change America into a socialist state. I do not accept that the American people have given up on personal freedom and responsibility and are prepared to turn their lives over the Obama appointed socialist bureaucrats. I do not believe that the descendants of all those Americans who created this nation have abandoned the principles that have set us apart from every nation in history.

However, the future of America is inextricably entwined with the future of the Republican Party. There is no other agency currently in existence sufficient to lead us back to our foundations and none appears on the near horizon. If not us, then who?

Our party needs to run, run hard, run constantly on smaller, less intrusive government, period. We need a leader who will come out and take ownership for the past decade of government growth and spending and say that it was a mistake and it ends right now. From here on out the party needs to stand for a very simple agenda:

• individual freedom and responsibility;
• a federal government that does only those things that the states and the people cannot do for themselves;
• fiscal responsibility and the absolute lowest possible taxes and regulation.

Will this resonate with the people after two to four years of Obama socialism? I don’t know, but I do know that running as a different version of the Democrats isn’t going to succeed. By 2010 or 2012 it may be too late to get people to take ownership of their own lives but I don’t think so. I do believe that after 10 years it will most likely be too late to reverse the march to socialism, one party government and eventually totalitarianism.

The time to start is now. The people to do it are here.

I’ve stayed away from RedState for some time now for a number of reasons. But today’s announcement about the convention suspension and AE’s suggestion that we need to lend a hand to Louisiana caught my attention.

Two weeks ago Tropical Storm Fay parked itself over the Northeast coast of Florida and delivered several feet of water on the residents of several counties, flooding homes and businesses, many of which are still flooded and perhaps may never fully recover. Two years ago my area of South Florida was ravaged by three significant storms, Katrina, Wilma and Rita in the space of a few months. Large parts of Southeast Florida were without power for several weeks.

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According to Robert Redford in an interview in the IrishTimes – Dublin

IF BARACK Obama doesn’t win November’s presidential election in the United States, “you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye”, the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.

You don’t suppose …