Posted on 01/02/2002 7:40:37 AM PST by JohnHuang2
This column is my first effort at fulfilling one of my new year's resolutions – making the protection of innocent American lives a national priority.
That is what I intend to do in 2002. That's my No. 1 priority.
What am I talking about?
I'm talking about real national defense – not the phony kind that we hear about from the Pentagon and Congress. I'm not talking about America's ability to project lethal force in remote corners of the world. I'm talking about defense, not offense. I'm talking about the good, old-fashioned concept of civil defense – about protecting the lives of innocent Americans from foreign or domestic threats.
I don't need to remind you that we witnessed a stark and brutal example of defense failure Sept. 11.
Foreign terrorists boarded four commercial airliners and crashed them – one of them into the very heart of the U.S. defense establishment, the Pentagon.
It could have been much worse. And it will be some day unless Americans wake up to the fact that they have been left purposely defenseless by their government. Americans are perceived by their leaders as little more than collateral damage in the inevitable war of the future to be fought on our own homeland.
Unfortunately, this is an issue no one else is talking about right now. That's what I pledge to change in 2002. I don't have the power to reallocate tax dollars from offense to defense – or from silly unconstitutional programs to a legitimate purpose of the federal government – but I do have some influence on the way some Americans think. And I'm going to use it with single-minded purpose in the coming year.
Mark my words: Before 2002 is a memory, civil defense will be back on the lips of average Americans.
But I need your help. I need all of you reading this column to become ambassadors of this urgent national priority – defending America.
I'm not talking about new weapons systems. I'm not talking about new bombers. I'm not talking about sophisticated new missiles. I'm not talking about transport planes or battleships or carriers. I'm not even talking about just some kind of impenetrable missile-defense system. Even that wouldn't address all of the threats we as a nation face.
I'm talking about protecting you, your children, your grandchildren from attacks that are coming as surely as you are reading this column today.
At this very moment, terrorists are planning to wreak havoc on America with weapons of mass destruction.
At this very moment, foreign rogue states are working on nuclear weapons technology with an eye toward achieving a kind of extortionist parity with the United States of America.
At this very moment, foreign nations you are supporting with your hard-earned tax dollars and others your nation is propping up with preferential trade practices have nuclear weapons pointed at America's cities.
America is defenseless against all of these threats – utterly defenseless.
It would be one thing if our potential enemies were also defenseless, but they are not. They have used technologies developed here in the United States – technologies you, the taxpayer, have supported – and put them to use defending their people and infrastructure with an eye toward surviving a nuclear war.
In America, we have convinced ourselves that nuclear war is not survivable – that it is not worth surviving. It's a defeatist mentality that ensures this country will not survive.
If any of this resonates with you today, I urge you to get the current issue of Whistleblower magazine as a primer on this issue of defense. Note that you can subscribe for a full year, or, if that is a problem financially, you can opt to purchase only this single issue for a mere $7.50. Believe me, this will be the best investment you make this year. This issue, along with the February edition, will begin to arm you with the facts you need to defend this great country.
It's not going to happen without a grass-roots movement. It's not going to happen because people in Washington suddenly wake up. It's not going to happen because somebody else makes real defense a national priority.
Only you can make this happen. Read it cover to cover. Stay alert for important updates on WorldNetDaily in the coming weeks. Together we can change history. Together, we may even be able to live to see it.
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