There was another shooting over the weekend, this one at a mall in Columbia, Maryland. While this post is not about that shooting, the news of the shooting dominated news on Saturday in particular and is therefore responsible for Americans not being informed of two even more ominous events: (1) an Al Qaeda plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy and International Conference Center in Tel-Aviv was uncovered and broken up by Israeli authorities, and (2) a marijuana investigation in Altoona, Pennsylvania led to the discovery of an assembled bomb in the possession of a teenage Russian national.
Al Qaeda has never tried to carried out an attack on Israeli soil. They appear emboldened to be able to carry out more serious attacks in far-reaching, previously untouchable places. The significance of this news is that U.S. intelligence forces have the responsibility, along with U.S. Marines, to protect American embassies overseas. Had the Israeli intelligence system not identified the terrorist cell and taken action, it is entirely probable that the U.S. Embassy in Tel-Aviv would have been bombed. Of course, I have to ask: If that happened, would Obama get on Air Force One and fly off somewhere? Would a crazy video maker be blamed?
Police in Altoona were surprised to run into a bomb in a suitcase in a Russian national's home. He is charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, risking a catastrophe, possessing instruments of crime, prohibited offensive weapons, incendiary devices, recklessly endangering another person, and several drug-related charges. The bomb was assembled after the Russian ordered components on-line. Our illustrious NSA claims it needs all of its data so that it can protect our domestic security; so, why didn't they connect these on-line dots? The FBI and Justice Department also bear responsibility; yet, this plot seems to have been close to fruition and would not have been uncovered if the local cops hadn't stumbled on to it. God forbid we would have interrupted NSA webcam and email spying on some little old lady in Pasadena and used them to uncover this plot.
Well, there's a third event worth mentioning at this point: the IRS has been harassing a conservative group in Hollywood. If you add all of this up, what do you get? You get an inept bunch of bumbling idiots in charge of our intelligence and a President intent on getting even with his political enemies. It's beginning to look like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in his diatribe of "God DAMN America," is having his dream come true.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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