Rooting for Al-Quada!

    The enemy of my enemy is, my enemy?
    No, that’s not how it goes.
    The enemy of my enemy is, my friend.

    Yesterday I suddenly found myself cheering for a group whom my Government assures me is my enemy. The Al-Quada who the United States Government has declared perpetual war against.

    Lest we forget, since 2001; when the World Trade Center buildings were brought down in huge piles of rubble and almost 3,000 Americans remains; our Government has conducted overt and covert military and civilian operations against what I can only visualize as a bunch of unshaven loose knit association of anti-American Arabs.

What I don't know!

    What do I or any other average American know about the Al-Quada? Damned little. And that’s the way our Government likes it. But research shows me that it was started back in 1988-89, by our then ally Osama Bin Laden. That they are a militant Islamist group. Like I said, Damned little.

    How is it structured? What is its purpose? What does the name mean? Who is it? Who is their leader? Where is their capital? How can I go and visit it?

    The name apparently means, “the Base.” It was founded as an anti-Soviet operation during the Soviet Afghanistan War, as opposed to the American Afghanistan War. It is made up of small groups whose numbers are nebulous, when compared with the military of the United States, and can be just one or two people or more.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Al-Quada's Main Purpose?

    That last part is the neat thing from our Government’s point of view. Along with there being no central leader, no central command structure, no single or even multiple places which are its home, it is the best of all enemies. It can never be defeated!

    As long as one peasant in one mud hut in one back hills village feels resentment to the developed World and is willing to go out and attack the World, or the United States, under the banner of this organization which has no structure and perhaps die in the process, then the war against it and what we are told is Our War against Terror can never be won!

    Al-Quada is truly a stroke of Bureaucratic Genius. The Government never has to ever release the reigns of control, ever again.

    What? You don’t believe me? Look at our airports, our public buildings, our public discourse, our behavior in public places. In the past twelve years, not one element of anyone’s life in the United States hasn’t been twisted and swept up in the public fervor to insure our peace and safety every where we go.

    Today I was watching an NBC news story which was applauding the fact that 15 million Americans have paid in the neighborhood of $100.00 and submitted to invasive Government investigations of their lives just for the privilege of moving through the air port security lines without having to take their shoes off or submit to more personal searches when they fly. That is $1.5 billion dollars of tax income from travelers which the Government could never have gotten without a War on Terror.

Our Enemy is most powerful when he doesn't exist!

 

    When you start watching the news with a critical eye, you realize that those boys in those mud huts in those remote villages with just an old rusty AK-47 and a handfull of cartridges, have scored the most effective military and civilian assault against the World’s preeminent power and won!

 What one American is as potent as that unhappy peasant?

Even the Vietnamese peasants couldn't impact America during their 19 years, 6 month struggle as effectively as the nebulous Al-Quada has.

    Take the question of the removal of the shoes before getting aboard a plane. Ostensibly to prevent shoe bombers from striking American interests. Right? With all respect for my betters, would someone please explain why it is that only in Israel, and the United States that people have to take off their shoes? While I haven’t flown there, I could find nothing mentioned in Google searches about such a measure. I could be wrong, but until told otherwise, remain skeptical.
Shampoo bottles, deodorants, soap, razors, pocket knives, nail clippers, any pointy object is forbidden to fly. What Viet Cong could have dreamt of such power?

    My point, is this, if no one else is checking shoes, why aren’t planes falling out of the sky all over the World where Americans fly in large numbers on foreign airplanes? It must be just American planes that are vulnerable.

My Point!!!

    Well I’ve wandered enough.

    Yesterday reading the Washington Post I found myself cheering the Al-Quada. They are working on defeating Drone attacks by going after the software. Again thanks to that "Traitor" Edward Snowden it can now be told that the enemy is trying to bring down our drones!

    Since those boys sitting on their prayer rugs in their mud huts, drinking goat and camel milk and ignoring their own women in favor of seventy some odd number of dreamed of virgins, ( Just imagine the problem they'd cause a fellow? Check out what's happening in our all new and improved Military. And they want me to believe any sane person would want in preference to real live ones?) have defeated us on every other front, I look forward to their doing it soon with the Predator and other drones starting to fall out of the sky.

    Why am I happy?

Because the Federal Government is already deploying these machines right here in the U.S. Under the guise of Wild Fire surveillance to start. Meanwhile Local State and City Governments are climbing onto the Drone Force bandwagon.

Since Civil Rights and the Constitution can’t stop them, I hope that hacking up their software will.

    If these hacks are successful, they will be published, and the Government’s insistence on invading yet another aspect of our lives will be if not foiled at least vulnerable until we can get some common sense in this Country. Something we seem to have left in the dim dark days of 9-11-01.

    Without some interference, George Orwell’s novel, “1984" will become completely true. "Perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control."

 Much of it is already in place thanks to the invention of Al-Quada.