Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama on the putting green on the South Lawn of the White House in April. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)
This post is a follow up to my post from Friday about feeling less safe every day. Here is more reason to feel less safe because of the action (or non-action) of our government.
As President Obama goes to the U.N. and garners accolades from low life, scumbag dictators; as he apologies to the world for what he perceives as the past-wrongs America has inflicted on the world and for our country's arrogance; as he plans on sitting down and make nice with a madman who wants to destroy us; as he plans to rid our arsenal of nukes and make us impotent to defend ourselves and destroys our policy of "peace through strength"; as he proclaims his intent to pass amnesty for illegal aliens; as he gives the order to close GITMO and bring terrorist prisoners onto our soil; as he releases terrorists back into society and sends them to Bermuda; as he investigates CIA agents who did their job to protect us and strives to turn them into criminals; as he fills the White House with socialist "czars" who plan on social justice for the "deserving" at the expense of everyone else; as he takes over private businesses; as he plans on a "new world order" and denies American exceptionalism; while he is "fundamentally changing" our country into a socialist/facist regime where the federal government rules our lives; where his "global warming" religion is going to destroy our economy; while he is spending our country into deficits that will never be able to be repaid; while he forces socialized health care down our throats; while he avoids making a decision about the war in Afghanistan at the peril of our troops and to the delight of the Taliban; where his Dept. of Homeland Security replaces the word "terrorism" for the more pc version of "man-made disaster"; while his policies are taking away our freedoms and liberties day by day; when his administration titles you a "domestic terrorist" because you exercise your right to free speech; where his state-run media and flunkies in congress call you "racist" because you disagree with him...have I missed anything?
While all of this is happening, our borders are being breached every day by illegal aliens, drug traffickers and possible terrorists. Isn't the first job of the Federal Government to keep our country and people safe? You would think that President Obama would use some of that stimulus money (you remember the money that was supposed to create jobs), and hire more people to control and protect our borders.
This article just gives me more reason to believe that Obama and his administration are not serious about doing the job they were hired to do...protect America. They are too busy trying to control our lives at the expense of protecting them.
Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border
Thursday, September 24, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, CNS News.com
(CNSNews.com) - Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints last year, the administration is nonetheless now planning to decrease the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Border Patrol Director of Media Relations Lloyd Easterling confirmed this week--as I first reported in my column yesterday--that his agency is planning for a net decrease of 384 agents on the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1.
Read the entire article: Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border
Update 9/27: I received a comment on this post that listed an article that contradicts the one above. It is the only article I can find that tells a different story. In fairness, I decided to post it. The direct link will only allow access if you sign up for their site, so I decided to link to the comment I received and you can read it for yourself. The article was in the Arizona Daily Star: Feds: No Plans For Fewer SW Border Agents, But U.S. Still Seeks Reinforcements on Canadian Line
Comments from Smart Girl Politics
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Whichever article is the true story, the fact of the matter is that the border is not secure. The fence isn't finished and there is violence, illegal aliens, drugs and possible terrorists crossing over that border every day.
Great Post!! Obama and his merry men are utterly naive, callous and ridiculous. They should be adding agents to patrol the border and not decreasing the amount agents there. This is highly irresponsible of the administration. This administration has headed back to a pre-9/11 lackadasical mentality when they should be increasing security due to the latest increasing terror threats in our country. Great job of covering pretty much everything. Although, I think I would classify Obama and his Czars as either communists, or fascists with a hint of totalitarianism thrown in.
ReplyDeleteHi Teresa:
ReplyDeleteMy brain was fried after I did the Obama list in the post.
Someone from Smart Girl Politics commented on this by sending me an article that contradicted it. I looked it up and it's the only one I can find. Everyone else is reporting the same thing I did.
So, in fairness, I suppose I will post the contradictory article because now I don't know which one is true.
And even if it is true, there still isn't enough security on the border. What happened to the fence?
Hello!
ReplyDeleteThere were over 17,000 border patrol on the Mexican border and only about 1700 stationed on the Canadian border. The only documented terrorist intent on doing the US harm came over the Canadian border at Port Angeles, Washington, not Mexico.
There may be agents transferred from the Mexican border to the Canadian border but that is probably appropriate given the risk and the budget restrictions.
Larry Johnson
Hi Larry:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information.
As far as I'm concerned, there should have as much security as possible everywhere along the border. The Fed Gov't is charged with the safety of the country, so the money they spend on their pork barrel projects could be better spent on the national security budget. Unfortunately, it seems that the security of our country sometimes is put on the back burner. Just look what Obama is doing with Afghanistan.
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