The National Security Generation

The National Security Generation is the title Sibel Edmonds has chosen for the first in her series of essays on The Making of a Police State. Sibel Edmonds is a naturalised American citizen who worked as a translator for the FBI, putting to use her expertise in Farsi and Turkish, and learning of and reporting on such corruption in the process that she is now under a gag order by the US Department of Justice (sic), begun by Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft and presently enforced by Obama/Biden/Holder.

The thing that startled me about this essay was the way Sibel has brought home the advanced state of decay in our nation :

Our children who were born on and around September 11, 2001 are now almost eight years old. These children, who we usually refer to as ‘the future,’ have only known a nation that has been engaged in perpetual wars, and to them it is ‘forever.’ How many times a day do they hear and read the word ‘war’? Whether it’s the TV they are tuned in to, or their parents’ daily paper they happen to get a glimpse of, or the radio news program they listen to during their car rides…they can’t help but hear and see ‘wars’: war on terror, war in Iraq, the Afghan war…

I always feel that I am secure, that we are secure, because no matter what lies are printed, what truths are omitted by the MSM, we still know the truth. But there is a whole generation growing up who do not know the truth.

Sibel continues :

My parents rescued me and my sister from a nation, a government, that targeted the youth; to clad them in veils, force them to pray five times a day, control what they read and listened to…

I rescued me and my freedom of speech by leaving the military regime of my home country behind and immigrating to a land that was famous worldwide for it’s ‘freedom of speech’ and it’s valuing of liberties.

I didn’t come here and become a citizen to have a government whose buildings and offices were buried behind piles of concrete and metal barricades; where the gates and doors were protected by armed men, metal detectors, and cameras.

I didn’t settle here to have my conversations and writings monitored by big brother around the clock.

I didn’t take my citizenship oath just to let my rights be easily quashed by privileges befitting kings and the like.

Mike's call to all of us to stoop and pick up the tools lying at our feet which we can use to regain control of our country is echoing now at the 11th hour. Not only can we regain control of our government, we must. No one is going to do it for us. Forget Obama, the great White Hope.

Can anyone look at the deficit, now $1,000,000,000,000 per annum and surely $2,000,000,000,000 per annum before this year is up; at the rapidly escalating wars of aggression in Central Asia and not see the hand-writing on the wall?

We are going down.

Turn off your TV, disregard your newspaper, the blogs, any source of information other than your own eyes and ears. The situation cannot be more obvious, cannot be more plain.

We are going down. For the count.

Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. No one... no one else... is going to do it.