See Something, Say Something

The Artistry of Chicago Ray

Be a good American.  Spy on your neighbors and report suspicious activity

Janet Napoleonitano, Kommissar of Heimatland Sicherheit, tells us if we see something, to say something

What?  Like turning in someone who's smoking?  Or kids reporting on parents who own too many guns?  Activities like terrorist-sponsors building mosques are exempt from reporting requirements, I've been told




OK.  I see lot's of stuff, so I'll say something...

I see a bloated bureaucracy making air travel resemble a miserable cattle drive ending at the meat packing plant, with baaing and mooing humans being herded through lanes and gates, harangued, felt up and stripped.  I also see that this bureaucratic organization has stopped not one terrorist.

I see a bipartisan clutch of progressive statists trampling the rights of free people as they wipe their feet on the constitution upon entering the capital.

I see someone gave Britain's nuclear secrets to Russia.  Spies?  No.  The blundering idiots in the Obama Administration.

I see a ship of state careening out of control, with a  dithering incompetent boob at the helm.

I see politicians spending money we don't have, forcing us to the brink of bankruptcy, and I see a foolish electorate who keeps sending them back to the District of Criminals for further thievery, lying, scamming and scandal-making.

I see a government that churns out dense bureaucratic sludge by the ton, and then sells exemptions to the moneyed and the lawyered who know how to play the game.
 
I see an economic ignoramus lashing out at businesses from the White House, admonishing them that they have a "responsibility to help the economy grow."  Meanwhile, he makes state-sponsored deals with crony crapitalists while crushing the rest with burdensome taxes and regulations. Only a socialist would feel that businesses must be scolded into making money.

I see a US President who has completely ignored the American people, hypocritically tell an Egyptian president to "Listen to the people."

I see a border that is an international joke, employment laws ignored, and a social welfare state that has made us the suckers of the world.

Is that the kind of stuff we're supposed to say something about Janet?

Bureaucratic Terrorism

I always thought the whole Terrorism threat level system, with its Christmas tree colors, was nonsense.

What's my 85 year old granny supposed to do with this alarming information blared out by the government? 

What am I supposed to do with it?  Go out and start shooting suspicious looking people?  I wonder how many paranoiacs and chronic worriers this stupid systems has pushed over the edge...


Congressional Testimony Nonsense
Ronald Baily at Reason points to the uselessness of congressional testimony involving intelligence officials telling us that bad people are out there and they want to kill us...

OK, here's my problem. Of what possible use is this kind of testimony? It does no good for public safety because doesn't tell Americans what kind of attack they should be looking out for; it just sows generalized angst. Now why would federal security bureaucrats want to increase public anxiety?

(1) Call me cynical, but one possibility is that the heads of the various security agencies are trying to protect their budgets by scaring senators and public. More fear = more money.

(2) Or it's a cover-their-behinds move [...]

What We Really Need
I want an anonymous, silent intelligence Agency That Shall Not Be Named.  A combination of Mossad competency and cold-blooded KGB brutality.  I want an agency full of Odd Jobs who can cut the head off of a statue with a steel-brimmed bowler hat.

Mullah Killed by Exploding Kebab
Forget the niceties.  Did intel find something actionable, but prosecuting the perps will be tricky?  Kill them.  I want to see suspicious people around the world dying from mysterious poisonings, exploding cigarettes and unexplained car crashes.

"The World" can point its grubby little fingers our way all it wants, we'll just shrug our shoulders and go "meh." 

So let's get to work terrorizing the terrorists, and stop scaring granny with red alerts...