The Myth of Security

I'm sure most of you know by now that a company owned and operated by the United Arab Emirates wants to own and operate 6 major seaports on the Eastern Coast. It just so happens that just about everyone in the country both economically and politically is against this idea, except the Bush Whitehouse, threatening for the first time in his presidency to veto an act of Congress. Bush has fumbled the ball on security yet again.

With all the rhetoric spewing forth from the whitehouse on security issues, I find it very peculiar where we fight our battles on this myth of security. In my opinion, the fact that everyone in the world knows that we have an epidemic problem with illegal immigration from Mexico should be our number one security issue. Terrorists, or other people that wish to do us harm, are not idiots. They read newspapers, watch the news, take in all information possible. If I were to strap a bomb to my chest and walk into a Starbucks, I better be sure that I'm killing myself for some reason. So, this being said, if I were a news savy terrorist, how would I get into the country? I would sneak through the US-Mexico border. There is little to nothing in the way of security checkpoints, no "no-fly" lists, no metal/bomb detectors like one would find with airplane travel; heck, you might even meet a few friends in the process (estimated 10k Mexicans cross the border illegally per day). So, what has our president done to ebb the tide and attempt to make America's most vulnerable entry site "safer?" Nothing. He has a buddy buddy attitude with the openly racist and arrogant Vicente Fox ("great" minds think alike!). Many people on both sides of the aisle disagree with this policy of active ignorance. But Bush is right, and everyone else is wrong.

This wiretapping bull crap, lets investigate this. Once again, I'm a newsavy terrorist. If I do happen to make it into America or want to contact anyone in America, you think I'm going to do it on a cell phone now?!? This is as if the police know a gang runs numbers with some kid running from building to building. They tell the newspapers who publish articles for three months that they are going to stop the kid running the numbers by arresting him. Three months later, they arrest the kid after the story has been in the paper everyday for the last three months. Now this would have to be the dumbest gang in the history of time; and equally, terrorists would have to be absolute morons to still use cell phone communications. So why still argue that you need the power to tap some one's phone without a warrant for as long as you want? Power. Clearly, any "terrorist" with a brain has moved on to email/IM/ or other forms of communication, why still argue you need to tap cell phones? For when the definition of "terrorist" is grayed to "citizen." Many people, both Republican and Democrat, believe that the president is overstepping his power. But Bush is right, and everyone else is wrong.

Now lets jump into this port issue. In this day and age of globallism and capitalism running most markets, is it really a problem for another country to own a business in another country? On the surface no, subcutaneously, yes of course it is, espeically when that country is in the hot bed of radically muslim ideology that is the Middle East. This country has went out of its way to hide information about Osama Bin Laden's bank accounts he kept in the country, thats enough for me to say, want to own ports in our country? Why don't you make like a tree, and get out of here!!!" Which brings us to another good point. It isn't a company who will own these ports, it is a company owned by the government of the UAE. This means that another country will own 6 huge ports on our Eastern seaboard. I have a problem just with that last sentence alone. Here is another problem. How can a President who is willing to bend and break the Constitution to show the world that he is willing to take a stand on terrorism be so adament about selling our ports to a country in the MIDDLE FREAKING EAST? For the first time in his presidency, he is stating he will veto any act of congress that tries to stop this sale from going forward. How is this more important to him than any of the other B/S that has come across his desk within the last 5 years? EVEN SEAN HANNITY THINKS THE PRESIDENT IS WRONG FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!! It is just a mystery to me how president Bush is willing to trample rights in this country to satisfy his desire to "monitor" terrorists but he is not willing to do anything to stop them from getting into the country!!! Don't get me wrong, I don't think that the UAE will all of a sudden open up our ports to terrorists. What bothers me is that news savy terrorists see the same statistics that I do, only 5% of containers coming into the US are actively searched. Those are pretty good odds to roll some dice on wouldn't you say? What bothers me the most is, this is clearly an issue of national security which Bush claims he is a strong president on, and he is clearly looking the other way. I don't care if Canada owns our ports, the fact is that another country which controls products into and out of that nation represents some threat to the security of the host country! Having a country which is smack in the center of the Middle East own these ports is clearly a mistake. Congressmen, Senators, Governors, citizens, and EVEN SEAN FUCKING HANNITY think this is a bad idea. But President Bush is right, and everyone else is wrong.

What will happen if everyone else is right you arrogant prick!?

Timetraveler?

I don't not like anything about this picture.

When Children Cry... I Laugh

The best part is how the dad continues to shove the camera in his crying child's face!

BOMB ME

Recently (ironically the first cartoon was published in September 2005... guess it took the donkey cart that long to get from Copenhagen to Beruit), an editorial cartoon was published which outraged the whole middle east. The cartoon depicts a muslim "mooolah" with a bomb as a turban. It was an editorial piece which, in my opinion, is painting Mohammed as a bomb wielding terrorist. So what does the Islamic community do? Instead of writing their own editorials in protest or doing anything the world would consider "civilized", they prove the cartoon true by hurdling rocks and gas bombs at Danish embassies all over the middle east. Doesn't this prove the point of the freaking cartoon? Its like if an editor of the Washington Post posted a cartoon of Madonna being a whore and in protest of the cartoon, she goes and has an orgy that would make even Caligula envious. Our world sees most Muslims as uncivilized, homeless, unemployed brutes which is unfortunate. There are about a billion Muslims in the world and it is a small minority of them which paint a horrible picture for the rest of them. I understand that the Muslim world does not allow portrayals of Mohammed and that painting him as a terrorist is a horrible thing. I do also understand that threatening more 9/11 style attacks on Europe as well as threatening beheading the cartoonist are the wrong way to express your dissent. In my opinion, such protests only spread the rift between the Western World and the Muslim World. In the end... just calm the fuck down.... its only a cartoon.... not worth killing anyone over.