Government to Issue Terrorist Hunting Permits Due to Budget Cuts
Due to the recent call for across-the-board budget cuts from the Obama administration in order to help pay for the new 3.6 trillion dollar budget, the administration has given come up with the idea of issuing Terrorist Hunting Permits:
The new hunting permits come on the heels of the decision of the Obama administration to release
Gitmo detainees on American soil. “We can kill two birds with one stone here”, said National Intelligence Honcho Dennis Blair, “if the former al Qaeda detainees aren’t able to reintegrate into society and commit “man caused disasters” here in the U.S., their status will revoked, and they will then be reclassified as “man caused disaster makers”. A permit will then be issued by the Division of Man Made Disasters.
While the above is satire, the story does contain some rather chilling details that are true. The Obama administration is considering releasing former Gitmo detainees on American soil.
From Breitbart:,
“President Barack Obama’s intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society.
“If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life,” said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first press conference.
“You can’t just put them on the street,” he added. “All that is work in progress.”
Obama has vowed to close the controversial prison camp by next January and has ordered individual reviews for cases against each of the over 240 remaining prisoners.”
What the Obama administration has yet to announce is what type of government “assistance” the detainees will receive, nor whether men will be put into some kind of government “witness” relocation plan and given new identities.
Cited in the Breitbart article were 20 Chinese who were detained at Gitmo:
“Twenty men detained at the remote US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in southern Cuba have been cleared of terrorism charges, including 17 Chinese Uighurs ordered released by a US court in June, seven years after their arrest. But the US says they may face persecution if returned to China.”
Yet there seems to be contradictory information regarding these men. According to a statement released by Kirk S. Lippold, Former USS Cole Commander and Senior Military Fellow at Military Families United, the Chinese men were trained by al-Qaeda and were actively involved with al-Qaeda when they were taken into American custody:
“In December of 2001, U.S. and Afghan forces were closing in on the location of Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan. At the same time, 17 members of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) completed weapons training at an al-Qaeda affiliated training camp and remained in Tora Bora. They were captured in the area around Tora Bora while Osama bin Laden was using an escape route from the region. Now, these 17 terrorists might be released as free men into the United States.
The ETIM is a terrorist organization and recognized as such by the US Treasury Department and the US Department of Homeland Security. According to AG Holder, ‘the possibility exists’ that the Obama Administration may decide to free them into the United States. This is a politically calculated disregard for our national security interests. These are the kinds of potentially deadly mistakes that are being contemplated in the rush to close GITMO on an arbitrary date in order to fulfill a campaign promise.
While our dedicated troops are still fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq, and keeping them out of the US, we shouldn’t be chartering planes for them to be brought to America. We should not bring members of a known terrorist organization onto our own soil here in the US. The President has a sworn obligation to protect our own citizens, and relying on the false hope that these terrorists will not return to the fight is an unrealistic gamble with our security. The safety of our homeland and our military should be of paramount concern to the Obama Administration and even remote contemplation of this action undermines that sacred trust. Guantanamo Bay must remain open as long as necessary until a complete and comprehensive plan can be crafted and a viable alternative developed that does not allow terrorists like Binyam Mohammed and the 17 Uighurs to be set free.”
While the Obama administration claims these men were “cleared” of terrorism charges and may face “persecution” if they return to China, the Obama administration also posits the schizophrenic assumption that these men are no longer dangerous and is willing to gamble on this assumption by freeing these men on American soil.
Former Commander Lippold has had first hand experience in terrorism as members of his crew on the USS Cole were murdered by al Qaeda terrorists in 2000. Lippold also served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the early days of the war on terror helping to “craft” Gitmo policy.
The “Politics of Fear”
The blog, Jammie Wearing Fool, published an extremely interesting quote from new head of Homeland Security, Former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, during her first “testimony” before Congress:
SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word “terrorism.” Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?
NAPOLITANO: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word “terrorism,” I referred to “man-caused” disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.
Jammie titled his post, “Orwell Laughs”. I concur. Less than 8 years after 911, where over 3,000 men, women, and children were murdered on American soil in an attack planned by Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda agents, our government is writing revisionist history via “nuance”.
Napolitano’s statement is full of little jewels carefully crafted to entice Americans into believing:
-The former Bush administration used the “politics of fear” in their policy on terrorism, inferring that Americans were persuaded to back Bush’s policies regarding terrorism by engaging in rhetoric which was designed to instill “fear”.
-Napolitano goes on to state that the Obama administration policy will be “a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur”. And yet it would seem that attempting integrate Gitmo detainees, who, by the way, weren’t at Gitmo because they had failed to pay taxes or wrote some bad checks, into American society, is quite the opposite of “being prepared for all risks that can occur”.
-Napolitano also stated that the word terrorism was being replaced by “man made disasters”, which she called, a “nuance”. This, coming from the head of Homeland Security, should give Americans pause.
Moving away from the “policies of fear” and relabeling terrorism and terrorists is an attempt by the Obama administration to “soften” the image of terrorists and terrorism. It’s also an attempt by the government to tell people “how” they should think and “what” they should think about terrorism and terrorists, and their “fear” of terrorism, contrary to what occurred on 911.
It’s apparent the Obama administration believes the public should either be mollycoddled into thinking that they should no longer fear terrorism or that those who, rightly so, believe terrorism is a threat, show a lack of intelligence and judgment regarding their, and their loved one’s safety.
Either way, attempting to tell the public what they should “think” and “feel” about terrorism while softening the “image” of terrorists and terrorism is a dangerous mix as it deludes the public into a false sense of security, ripening American soil and minds for the next attack.
By LBG
Images and Hat Tip: Rides a Pale Horse
