MUCH 'ADO ABOUT NOTHING

After the War on Drugs began in earnest in the 1980s and the Patriot Act from earlier this decade we should already know we are not the “land of the free” and now it seems that another myth i.e. that we are the “land of the brave has been exposed by this much ‘ado about nothing attempt to blow up a plane headed for Detroit. Turns out we are really the land of the frightened.

Talk about over reacting. The White House and Congress claiming this was an act of terror against the U.S. Did Abdulmutallab get by U.S. transportation security? No he actually boarded a plane in Nigeria then boarded another plane in Amsterdam where apparently security isn’t as secure as the name implies. Bet he would have been busted for a bag of righteous herb. So his name wasn’t on the “no fly” list. Should it have been merely because his father was concerned about his religious extremism?

So he paid cash and didn’t have any luggage. These are issues that are easily corrected without trying to kill the fly with an elephant gun. I mean to say full body scanning devices at all airports in the U.S. because of Abdulmutallab?

Even the Republicans are looking to fire someone in the Obama Administration and blame President Obama for this haphazard attempt to commit an act of terror. These are the same Republicans who didn’t and still don’t have the guts or the good sense to hold anyone responsible in the Bush Administration for being on vacation and asleep at the wheel on this pathetic ship of state for their gross negligence and incompetence on 9/11 and now they’re hell bent over much ‘ado about nothing.

This morning I heard the local Siena college graduate, Paul Vandenberg, actually stoked the fires and claim that this is “a holy war against white Christians on their holiest of days”. Say what??? A holy war against white Christians on their holiest of days? Give me a break. Aren’t there also non-white Christians? All those efforts at converting non-believers at the point of a gun were and still are directed at non-whites but the so-called “holy war” is directed against white Christians only?

Vandenberg presents an excellent reason to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Idiots like that shouldn’t be allowed to exercise their freedom of speech unless someone has the equal time to expose their malicious hysteria as pure unadulterated fear mongering.

Land of the free, home of the brave is the kind of bullshit rhetoric that gets us in a lot of trouble when we start believing such crap. The reality is we neither free or brave rather we are indeed a people easily manipulated by fear and ignorance.