WHAT DID OUR HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROTECTION BUY US?

Where we stand: Box cutters vs. the most technology ever

It always make you feel confident to realize that after we’ve poured hundreds of billions of dollars into our esoteric protective agencies, so secretive that we admittedly know little about them except how wrong they've been in the past, that the man chosen to head them in the most advanced technological job in the world (we would think…) admits that with the latest hardware and software at his disposal, he informs us of his “gut feeling” that we may be threatened again this summer.



with lasers, phasers, radars, telecommunications, computers, software programs that listen to the conversations of people round the world, hand held devices that can listen into anything, special radar arrays that are so esoteric the average layman would never understand them, robotic devices that scan everything from twenty miles above the ground,the most costly satellite systems anyone could imagine, pin-point specific weaponry, video cameras that miss nothing, computer systems that can lay out an entire battlefield and weapons that can destroy dozens of tanks with a single bomb, and a thousand things more that are still classified, you have the audacity to tell us that the best you can do is gut instinct?



And your reason:



Because the terrorists seem to like the summer to become active….



What the hell are you talking about, you boob?



Should I run out and buy more plastic and tape?



Don't you realize that you have access to every device known to man, that nothing is too expensive, and yet the best you can do is gut instinct???



If Mr. Jerkoff is so willing to talk about his gut feelings, perhaps I can do likewise.



I am under the distinct impression that our protective agencies are being run by morons; that our leadership is non-existent; that if we don't take things into our own hands, we will all be living in New Orleans...



That we have spent untold billions that is either so unreliable, so unwieldy, or so incomprehensible to our leaders that they would rather go with their instincts….



We have added bureaucracy to bureaucracy so that now we have built a tower of Babel that carries no weight, accomplishes little and is a total embarrassment to the people.

No wonder we have been kept in the dark so long.



What a wonderful reason to initiate the deepest probe of our investigatory agencies and their bizarre cultures and warped leadership ever.



We demand to know what has happened to all of the money we’ve invested.



We demand to know on what basis we are safer now than ever.



We demand answers and not more platitudes that leave us more querulous than ever with less confidence than ever in the forty or so agencies that exist only for one reason—to protect us, the people…



If the media does not feel that this is the worthiest of issues, I would suggest that we take away their licenses because they have failed to act in the public good; they have failed to perform their duty as public watchdogs and the last thing we need is media that attempts to soothe away or distract us from what should be our premier priority.



And if our elected officials do not respond, we should ditch them all and start over…



It is time to act on this most critical of issues….before the guys with the box-cutters come at us again!



Les Aaron