Hail Caesar
by Glenn R. Jackson
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” As events in the war on terror in Afghanistan suddenly advance at lightning speed, the President, Congress and our globalist business elites would do well to take this opportunity to give new thought to their pre-September 11th policies and behaviors.
While there have been a number of people prepared to give the U.S. military their advice on war fighting, something they do mostly from their ignorance of how war is fought. No one seems at all interested in re-thinking old policies that have led to the worse attack on American soil in our national history.
Instead, on the home front our national leadership continues to maneuver for the sake of personal advantage. The most popular game in Congress seems to be “Who wants to be President,” and spinning their issues to be the most important on the American agenda. In the meanwhile the great issues, the really dangerous issues of the day continue to fester and grow more and more threatening.
For example, Congress continues to fight over an airline security issue that is best solved by the airlines themselves. While Congress showboats, a small discount airline, Airtran Airways, has already solved the cockpit security issue by utilizing the same high tech solution you use to secure your sliding glass door. Airtran has added two locking steel bars that fasten across the cockpit side of the folding door and can prevent anyone’s entry into that area. Give me a pilot with a 45 cal. automatic inside that locked cockpit and you have one very secure airplane.
Pre-September 11th policies that were thought of as so expansive and globalist, are, as they continue unabated today, looking criminally insane. The still unanswered question to Congress, if foreign nationals are the danger we seek to render harmless to Americans as they fly our once friendly skies, why does congress and the INS continue to allow foreign nationals into the country? A case in point for insane foreign entry into the country are the 14 Syrian student pilots and the 14 Algerian student pilots allowed into the Dallas/Ft. Worth flight school of Khaled Miloud (Paul Sperry WND, Oct. 16th) in the weeks following the September 11th attacks.
The borders remain open and porous, those who enter our nation illegally are still roaming our streets, and homeland defenders allow terrorist leads to grow cold pursuing personal agenda’s.
For several weeks Senator McCain has been taking on the President over airline security, as he once did over campaign finance. Meanwhile the Senator’s constituents along the Arizona border arise each morning to clean up the trashed landscape over which foreign nationals have illegally entered our country through their backyards.
Both airline security and campaign finance are issues long on emotional appeal, but as constituted by the Senator, are very short on actual benefit to the American citizens. When leaders invest so heavily in emotional content issues and refuse so completely to change old behavior in the face of a new reality, demagoguery is so thick in the air you can smell it.
Senator McCain is not alone in seeking advantage from the emotional epicenter. Former President Clinton hovers around the periphery of ground zero seeking hugs, press time, and a little absolution. His wife, the junior Senator from New York, seeks a little of that spotlight herself in Madison Square Garden and runs afoul of real Americans. She slips away from there to try and revitalize a little of her lost glory with another shot at national healthcare. Her presidential ambition is one of the worse kept secrets from the Clinton administration…and that is saying something.
America is a nation beset by enemies who would stop at nothing to kill us, and by “friends” who would use any emotional lever to rule us. Continuing to limit American liberties instead of foreign national’s access to this country is frightening. To propose continued unfettered immigration in the face of a severe economic downturn that affects thousands of American citizens is insanity.
What America needs are leaders not afraid to fight for the hard choices. We need leaders who will not worry so much about hurting politically correct feelings, but instead will serve America’s needs. We need leadership that recognizes that a safe, strong and secure America is the goal they were elected to fulfill.
Yes, what America needs is another George Washington. Yet on the near horizon are only those who play games with emotions and worry about personal ambition. America needs the service of real leaders, not just those seeking to hear the words “Hail Caesar”.
Glenn Jackson is Chairman of the American Reformation Project, former State Chairman for Buchanan Reform and former state Chairman of the Georgia Freedom Party. Glenn also served on the Executive Committee of the Reform Party USA.