Liberal Minds and Homegrown Terrorism: Disbelief and Disrespect

The media is just a tool the Bush Administration uses to keep the sheep in line. There is no real threat.

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The headlines this past week focused on a terror plot that was designed to destroy John F. Kennedy Airport and a large portion of Queens. Four "would-be terrorists" had been planning this attack for over 18 months and only their paranoia halted the project.

Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen originally from Guyana, claims he developed his hatred for the United States a decade ago when he saw weapons being shipped to Israel. He assumed these weapons would be used to kill Muslims. Based on that, he hatched a plot to destroy not just an airport, but a symbol of America.

"Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States," he was recorded telling a co-conspirator. "They love John F. Kennedy like he's the man ... It's like you can kill the man twice."

The men tried but never obtained any explosives. And the plan they were working on had little chance of working, according to experts. Richard Kuprewicz, president of Accufacts Inc., stated that the explosions would localized and not travel up and down the fuel line.

"That doesn't mean wackos out there can't do damage and cause a fire, but those explosions and fires are going to be fairly restricted."

While it seems that this plan, if conducted solely by the four suspects, would fail, they were not trying to go it alone. They had reached out to Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim organization within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaat al Muslimeen is currently under surveillance for suspected contacts with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations.

The operation came to a halt when Defreitas felt the long arm of the law was about to crash down one him. He fled, but the United States found him.

The left's response to this is not unusual. It is one of dismissive apathy, an attitude of "So what...they couldn't do anything anyway." It is demonstrated in the posts from The Huffington Post:

• I don't know what this one is all about but I have to say it sounds a lot like the couple of other things our ubiquitous homeland security bunch have "stopped" I have to say if I am supposed to be terrified I am not Sounds like they nailed another bunch of keystone terrorists
• I am FAR more afraid of being falsely imprisoned by Homeland Security than I am of being attacked by terrorists.

• Son of Satan-Chaney's boys have been at it again. Whenever things aren't going their way, the trot out another bogus terrorist story for the fear effect.

  That a boy, Satan!!

You can find the same attitude on many websites. The terrorists here in America, planning large scale terrorist attacks are just clowns, rookies to be monitored and then nabbed at the most politically beneficial time. The only person in America worth fretting over, is apparently Dick Cheney.

There was not threat a year ago, when the federal government arrested seven men who were planning to destroy the Sears tower. A left-leaning commenter on Newsvine states:

...the seven men(or boys) planning to blow up the Sears Tower, couldn't even afford shoes and had never been to Chicago and it really looks like they were encouraged on by their FBI plant.

See, these guys were Keystone terrorists. So were the men planning on blowing up the underwater New York City train tunnels and flooding Lower Manhattan. And the Fort Dix Six get only minimal respect, but are still dismissed. The security around Fort Dix would have stopped them.

A person would be lead to believe that there is nothing to worry about when it comes to homegrown terrorism. We are to believe that the "wanna-be terrorists" are just completely incompetent, or that the federal government has everything firmly in hand and is just waiting to help the Bush Administration look good. Another idea is that the FBI is holding off on arresting terrorists until the Administration feels the country is not scared enough. Then they trot out some bad guys and say "See, be afraid. They could be anywhere."

The left refuses to see the possibility of these plots leading to the loss of life. Even if the plot to destroy JFK may not have been workable, is it not possible that had the team contacted a formidable enemy, that its probable failure would have been exposed? The knowledge these four had could have been used in another manner, including the knowledge about the pipeline. As the New York Post noted, pipeline security is a joke. This idea could have lead to an idea that did have potential.

One man with a Ryder truck destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. The federal government was not there to stop it and 168 died. It does not take much to create death and destruction in America. These plots show that many are still trying to attack America and kill its citizens. Which of these plots could have lead to the next attack is unknown, but it is irresponsible to dismiss them as unimportant, trivial or orchestrated.

The left's distrust of this administration had bled into the appreciation of the risks and dangers these civil servants face and the sacrifices they make daily. It is a dangerous attitude that can lead America to drop her guard again, only to be hit by the persistent enemy in the shadow. If not for the paranoia of Defreitas, and the quick response by the FBI, who knows how this ends. But to dismiss the entire thing as a charade orchestrated to assist the executive branch in scaring the public, or in boosting public opinion for the president, is dangerous and disrespectful to the men and women who work each day to prevent Americans from again becoming victims of terrorism.

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	Ex-Airport Worker Plots Massive Attack On JFK	WCBSTV.com	Mon Jun 4	0
	Authorities Charge 4 in NYC Terror Plot	Associated Press	Sat Jun 2	3
	Plot to blow up JFK is 'tip of the iceberg' |	Telegraph	Tue Jun 5	0