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By E. Ralph Hostetter
November 16, 2006
Changing the course of government invariably leads to uncertainty.
Setting the new course is in large part the responsibility of the newly elected majority in Congress. This may prove difficult, inasmuch as the new majority in both Houses campaigned with no program.
House Democrats, according to TIME Magazine, were dominated by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). "They were more unified in their voting than at any other time in the past quarter-century, with members on average voting the party line 88 percent of the time in 2005."
When Democrats blocked President George W. Bush's plan for Social Security reform in 2005, TIME Magazine continues, "Some [Democrats] pestered her [Mrs. Pelosi] every week... for the release of a rival plan." She replied, "Never. Is never good enough for you?"
Representative Pelosi stonewalled President Bush's programs, including energy, permanent tax reductions and Social Security reform. She offered no Democratic plans for bipartisan consideration.
President Bush, following the election, welcomed the new leadership of both Houses to the White House for one-on-one consultations. He greeted them with one cheek severely beaten, but with the grace of a compassionate conservative presented the other cheek as a bipartisan offer.
Sheep’s clothing manufacturers in the Washington area had been working day and night to garb the “loyal” opposition.
All the previous year's threats proffered by the Democrats — the raising of income and Social Security taxes, withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, endless investigations of the Bush Administration, the impeachment of the President, removal of provisions in the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts, denial of NSA terrorist detection methods and CIA terrorist interrogation policies and the closing of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center — seemed to have disappeared with the gracious offers of bipartisanship by the new leadership of both Houses.
There is one certainty. The Democrats, backed by the dominant media, are continuing the drumbeat of withdrawal from Iraq.
The change in the course of America’s Federal Government has not gone unnoticed by terrorist enemies.
Whether or not Americans admit the terrorists have changed the course of government the terrorists believe they have, as certain as they did in Spain.
Europe has come under Islamic influence to the extent some people openly refer to it as Eurasia.
Terrorism around the world has been encouraged by the course of events in the United States. Two Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, announced this week they intend to attack America. These remarks were later denied.
Hamas is a large group that won control of the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 elections. The Hamas founding charter commits the group to the destruction of Israel. Their principal terrorist weapon, used against Israel for years, is the individual suicide bomber. Their leaders have called these suicide attacks "the F-16 of the Palestinian people." The average bombing costs about $150 and Hamas gives the family of the bomber a few thousand dollars and calls him a hero!
Hamas has a presence in the United States and Canada. Muslim charities were believed to be funding Hamas. Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in the United States, in December 2001 had its assets seized by the Federal Government.
Fatah is a smaller group which Israel blamed for the killing of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Terrorists may find attractive this period of political uncertainty, awaiting the reorganization of Congress.
There is little doubt that terrorists will be emboldened to follow our troops back from Iraq.
The uncertainty existing today may cause the American people to let down their guard long enough for the terrorists to act. International broadcasts have announced that Al Qaeda plans large-scale terrorist attacks against America at year end.
Here’s where we stand. A treasonous group in the dominant media has already exposed America’s methods of detecting terrorist attacks. Congressional Democrats have put roadblocks in the way of America’s detection methods.
With the help of the United States in cooperation with the British Government, the plot to blow up ten U.S.-bound aircraft in flight across the Atlantic was exposed by the very methods denied to the President. Over thirty terrorist plots against American citizens since 9/11 have been exposed, most prior to the disclosure of the methods by THE NEW YORK TIMES.
American citizens must begin open discussions with regard to types of attacks, particularly the smaller budget attacks of single suicide bombers.
It is possible that Hamas or Fatah “F-16” suicide bombers, detonating themselves in ten large shopping malls in widespread areas, could kill hundreds and disrupt the entire Christmas shopping season, bringing major damage to the U.S. economy. A powerful car bomb in the main shopping area of Fifth Avenue would do likewise.
Reading the above lines will no doubt bring shock and anger to some, but what a timely message such reporting may have brought forth just weeks before 9/11.
Airplanes aren’t the only weapons used by terrorists.
E. Ralph Hostetter, a prominent businessman and publisher, also is an award-winning columnist and Vice Chairman of the Free Congress Foundation Board of Directors. He welcomes email comments at eralphhostetter@yahoo.com.
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