Every major police force in the U.S. is now being militarized. Part of the reason is the drug gangs and the terrorist threat but that also gave police forces the excuse and the money they needed to create their own army. In third world nations warlords have that type of power. Here it is drug gangs and police gangs and the attitude of both is it is us against them. When the “them” becomes the citizens you already have a local police state. That is now true in some areas of the U.S. but not in most rural areas. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that if the trend continues a police state is in our future.

With one word from the federal government based on some perceived threat all these heavily armed local police forces will become nationalized and there arises the official big police state. Right now all the big police forces are in training for their future police state role that everyone but the sheeple knows is inevitable.

Much can be determined about your own police force by how they treat the citizens. If they treat you as if you are guilty until proven innocent, If you get thrown on the ground instead of questioned. if they just break down your doors when they could have knocked (with some exceptions), if a gun is pointed at you and you are unarmed, if they have road check points looking for anything they can find, if they pull you over for a minor infraction and then ask to search your vehicle, If they want to search your vehicle and the only option you are given to refuse is a vehicle impoundment, if they travel in packs like a gang, if they look like storm troopers when on routine patrol, etc. Then there is a good chance that you are already living in a police state.

American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State

Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15’s, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.

Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their 20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently told the Associate Press: “We live on being prepared for ‘what if’.”

Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults

SWAT teams were designed to deal with very violent individuals who represent a clear and present threat to the public. However, they are now being used to execute warrants on non-violent offenders and even those who have no prior criminal history at all. Turning our neighborhood cops into shock troops will do nothing but erode public confidence in the police and endanger the lives of innocent Americans.

Recently, Boston´s new police commissioner William Fitchet announced that the department´s Street Crimes Unit will begin wearing military-style black uniforms, to instill a sense of “fear.” At last week´s city council meeting, police Sgt. John Delaney told council members that the black uniforms would send the message that officers were serious.

Did someone declare martial law?

This article is certainly worth the read and I agree with about 90 percent of what Jim Schwiesow says in this article. But America cannot fulfill Revelation 18:7-8.

He is correct that there is no remedy for the downfall of the U.S. Because the majority of people in this nation simply wish to believe the demented lies of the amoral ungodly who have taken over the realms of power in this nation.

People in this nation will get what they want and what they deserve. Maybe they will come back to their senses one day after their human savior fails them and they find themselves on a sinking ship in dire straits. But then again I would not bet on American’s repenting and I think that all the kings men will not be able to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

The demise of America is inevitable unless there is some divine intervention that shakes this nation to its core.

Jim R. Schwiesow — Scarlet is Our Color

Time is fleeting and every second, minute, hour and day hurtles this nation closer to a time of retribution, a time so horrific that the mind cannot comprehend the magnitude of the fiery fury that will descend upon this nation and the people in it. The Eternal is moving against this country with purpose and terrible resolve, like small fingers of flame the preliminary pestilences signal a rapidly advancing holocaust.

The worst of heathen have come to possess the offices of our government, the halls of our institutions and the minds of our people. The land is in the terminal stages of a great spiritual disease. We are an adulterous people and a scarlet A has been emblazoned upon our land.

With regularity one hears it parroted that God’s blessings are upon this nation, those who give lip service only to the God of all creation continually wring their hands in despair over the removal of God from our coins, prayer from our schools and the Ten Commandments from our public institutions. One can only wonder where these same people were when sexual perversity and the teaching of social filthiness invaded our schools. Where were they when derelict and avaricious politicians and government agents incrementally and systematically dismantled the Constitution and destroyed the individual liberties of the people? Under what rock were they hiding when the killing of live babies was sanctioned and a host of soul killing perversions were institutionalized?

Why would a supposed God-fearing people allow such to come to pass? The truth is that the more than one-half of the people of this country who call themselves Christian, a great majority of which are ashamed to utter the name of Jesus Christ in public, have done more spiritual damage than the totality of the non-religious, the atheists and the agnostics who reside in the country.

The unrighteousness of our people, the moral degradation upon the nation, the rebellion against Almighty God and the rejection of His rule have brought us to the cusp of absolute destruction. Repent is not in our vocabulary and humility does not inhabit our soul, foolishness is forever on our lips and pride and arrogance mark our character.

The ignorance of our leaders and the delusion upon the people has made way for the institution of the elements of our own destruction.

Many have written to me and bewailed what they see as a failure by me and other columnists with NewsWithViews.com to provide solutions to the problems that we describe. They concede that we have accurately identified the degradation that it upon our nation, but they want someone to provide the answers that will deliver the nation from a seemingly imminent demise. The truth is that there are no secular solutions that will deliver this nation. No resolution other than a nationwide confession of sin and repentance thereof will save this nation.

If Mexico does not win this battle on drug trafficking we will end up with a hostile nation on our south border. Then we will be forced to send our military to defend our south border. The first thing we need to do is to start posting that anyone crossing into the U.S. illegally from Mexico is subject to deadly force and give our border patrol the weapons, technology and the backing to carry out that policy.

I don’t care what some are saying about the danger this would bring to the innocent illegals that are only coming across to make a living. They are only coming across now because they know they can. Besides, they are already in great danger by those who smuggle them like cattle along with their drugs - hundreds die each year. Common people in Mexico will soon get the message that you do not cross into the U.S illegally if we truly enforce our borders.

How do Liberal “compassionate” supporters of illegal entry rationalize that this policy is causing thousands of deaths and lawlessness in Mexico? Not to mention that drug running across our south border helps to kill many thousands of Americans and ruin the lives of millions through drug addiction. Is that compassion? Sometimes you need tough laws to protect people from the greedy predators of the world.

They say if we tighten up enforcement of our borders some poor workers might get killed but they totally ignore the fact that many thousands are being killed and that whole nations are being subverted by drug cartels.

Sometimes you have to fight to protect a civil society. Do sane people want drug cartels running Mexico? I assure you it will not have a good outcome. Now is the time to put pressure on our own government to join forces with President Calderon to ruthlessly crush the drug cartels. We also need to crush drug gangs in our own nation that have virtually taken over our inner cities. Now please don’t talk to me about the gang’s civil rights when the civil rights of millions of city dwellers have already been taken away by the gangs.

New Mexican ‘revolución’ crosses border, infects U.S.

In the 18 months since President Felipe Calderon took office vowing to defeat the cartels, the Mexican army, increasingly equipped with modern American-made arms, vehicles and communication, has been deployed across the country in a running battle against the cartels. The death toll is rising. The cartels have executed more than 4,000 people: judges, police chiefs and officers, mayors, military commanders and rival gang members, in a continuing battle over control of territory, particularly in the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango. Portions of the Mexican army have been compromised, and many Mexican soldiers are now cartel enforcers.

The danger now is that revenue from smuggling is so great that cartels can not only bribe officials to get their way, but they can permanently buy off (or kill off) key army, government, political and media figures, rendering Mexico a state dominated by the cartels. Things can get much worse in Mexico than they are today. And that means, things can get much worse for America, too. President Calderon deserves U.S. support as he fights the smuggling cartels for control of Mexico

I do not think it is unreasonable for someone running for President to be drug tested especially since he has a history of drug abuse. Most people are required to be drug tested for their jobs. Any low level federal employee is subject to being drug tested as is everyone in the military. Anyone who admitted to past Cocaine use probably could not even get a Top Secret clearance. It is a scientific fact that cocaine use permanently alters the brain but yet people in America plan to make Obama Commander-in-Chief and put him in the most important position in the world without drug testing him. We require those running for President to disclose their taxes but we do not test them for drugs?

I propose a new law that says that anyone running for federal office be drug tested. Then the results of the test should be published. If America still want to elect such a person they get what they deserve.

To The Point News - IS OBAMA ON DRUGS?

The champion O-gaffe was committed on May 9 in Beaverton, Oregon. You have to see it to believe he actually said that during his campaign, “I have now been to 57 states with one left to go,” then says that one is “Alaska and Hawaii.”

No matter how exhausted from campaigning you are, you don’t make a mistake like that under any normal circumstances. Saying there are 57 states - actually 58, or is it 59? - is such an egregiously stupid error that it is evidence of brain malfunction.

A neuroscientist with years of research into drug abuse and brain chemistry tells To The Point that the behavior exhibited by Obama is consistent with the use of either amphetamines or cocaine.

“His campaign’s almost impossibly high level of activity, mental and physical, unrelenting day after day for month upon month is incredibly hard to maintain,” he says. “The temptation to maintain it psycho-pharmacologically is great, especially for someone with a history of drug use. The drugs of choice would be amphetamines or cocaine, which can cause amazing mistakes, errors of incredible stupidity.”

In his book, Dreams From My Father, Obambi admitted his drug use when young: “Pot (marijuana) had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow (cocaine) when you could afford it. Not smack (heroin), though.”

Teen-age drug use isn’t, of course, evidence for its use in one’s 40s. But when someone who may be elected President of the United States starts behaving suspiciously, then it’s justified to ask that those suspicions be allayed.

Thus, To The Point calls for Barack Hussein Obama to be drug tested.

No urine test, which can be faked and is only good within a few days of drug use. The gold standard of drug testing is done with the testee’s hair - for it is good up to 90 days.

When governments try to balance their budgets on the back of mostly low and lower middle class smokers they themselves are creating the smuggling problem. When government adds several dollars to the cost of one pack of cigarettes they make it very lucrative for smugglers. So what did New York State do about the problem reported in this article. They just raised taxes $1.25 a pack this year to $2.75 to help with their budget shortfall. Every time the states or the Feds raise cigarette taxes they call it a win win situation. They say less people will smoke and they will raise more tax revenue. Obviously there is also a lose lose situation the governments do not tell you about. They are promoting crime and robbing poor people.

I do not smoke but let me tell you what I see going on. My observations are that when one in a couple smoke they both smoke. Most have a family income of less then $30,000 and some are on government assistance. They are addicted and they are not going to quit smoking because government raised the taxes. They each smoke at least a pack a day or 60 packs a month. At $5 a pack it costs them $300 a month. They do not have that much disposable income so some necessities are put off indefinitely. Often their children go without or they live in substandard housing, etc.

Liberal answers to all revenue shortfalls is more taxes especially on things that they do not like and their answer to social problems is to tax or legislate them out of existence. It has never worked and they should not then act surprised when their laws bring these additional problems.

FOXNews.com - Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Terror Groups, Report Finds - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

A 15-page report congressional report, obtained by FOX News, includes intelligence from law enforcement as well as New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance.

The report reads in part: Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah.

“This is a very serious homeland security issue, one that has gone unnoticed for far too long,” said Rep. Peter King, (R-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, who called for the investigation.

“Cigarette smugglers are able to generate millions of dollars in illegal profits with a great deal of this wealth being sent to terrorist groups overseas – groups that would like nothing more than to inflict devastating harm on our country and its citizens.”

One of the key issues, according to the report, is a potential flaw in New York State policy. According to King’s office, there is a policy in the state of “forebearance,” or refusing to collect on sales of Native American tax-free cigarettes to non-Native Americans.

Critics of the policy say it has effectively created a safe haven for smugglers. In some cases, the report says, a well-organized operation can buy cigarettes tax-free on New York’s Indian reservations and sell them at a great profit in the New Yock City area,

If Chuck Norris were the head of Homeland Security we would really have homeland security. The Area 51 solution would punch the lights out of the drug runners and terrorists coming across our borders.

Border fence fiasco

If these solutions don’t stop the tides of illegal flow in and out of our borders, a friend of mine has a Texas-tough alternative and answer to replace the government’s virtual fence failure. In fact, he says, we don’t need a security fence at all. All we need to do is to post signs and position manned trucks at key points, just like our government does at Area 51, the top secret military airfield in remote central Nevada, around which there are no fences or walls. There is never a breach or unwanted border crossing there, at least that we hear about! And why? Because the boundary sign reads and is never questioned, “Warning: Use of deadly force authorized.”

I do not know which is more demented, those who take part in a celebration of pot and rebellion or having laws that half of the nation have broken. Some people are doing hard time in prison as felons for use of marijuana in private while others openly flaunt it in public while law enforcement does nothing. You would think that society would get the message after fifty years of this. If you really want to control lusts of the flesh of sinful people you cannot have a free society. However, the world’s alternative brings repression and tyranny. The only solution for man is to put King Jesus on the throne.

CU’s 4/20 pot smoke-out draws crowd of 10,000 : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera

A crowd of about 10,000 people collectively began counting down on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle just before 4:20 p.m. Sunday.

Yet the massive puff of pot smoke that hovers over CU’s Boulder campus every April 20 — the date of an annual, internationally recognized celebration of marijuana — began rising over the sea of heads earlier than normal this year.

First the schools brainwash children and confuse them about their sex identity and then we have these sex change agents from hell in the medical community that drug children so that they can be made into freaks for life. What a wonderful society the liberal social engineers are creating. Our demented society sexually abuses children everyday and then we wonder why many grow up to be sex abusers. Young children should not decide if they are transgendered and the medical community should not be facilitating this. This is nuts!  All who have a part in this demented program receive my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award.

Children’s hospital launches sex change for kids program

“Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”

“This is going on at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital in Boston – not some backwater clinic. This is the elite of the medical profession,” the organization said.

There are only three possibilities:

Obama did not attend that church enough to know what the church was preaching (hardly a picture of a mature Christian).

Obama agreed with what the church was preaching (hardly a picture of a person with Christian discernment or with mainstream American views).

Or Obama only joined that church because it had the influence to give him political power (Hardly a reason for any true Christian to join a radical racist church).

Lets get real. We know what Obama is. His wife reflects his views. His amoral social positions reflect his views. There are millions of people in this nation of many different shades who blame others for their own moral problems. How many blacks today are in leadership because they use black’s hate of others for their own political ends? I could make a list of them. You know who they are, they are talking head media stars.

Does America really want to have a doubled mouthed smooth talking con man, with his shady past and socialist views running our country? I just explained in a previous post why illegal drug users are guilty of murder. Obama was a drug user. Considering all these things that we know about Obama, are Americans that incredibly naive to make him President because He can chant slogans like “yes we can” or “change”?

Having said that, Hillary has her own issues.

American Thinker: Knowing Obama by the Company He Keeps

Because, as my wise grandmother used to say, “you are influenced by the company you keep.”Barack Obama persistently contends that he has not been influenced by the racist sermons of Jeremiah Wright or Wright’s mentor, James H. Cone.

One must wonder now whether Obama is fooling himself, or us.

There is so much money in drugs going to the U.S. that even government not already corrupted by the money cannot cope with the gangsters. Over tens thousands people die in drug wars and by drug overdoses in Mexico and the United States each year.

More U.S. citizens die because of drug users then die in Iraq but where are the liberals on this issue? Drugs have led to government corruption and is leading to a police state yet demented users think that doing drugs is harmless. If there were no users these things would not be happening. Therefore, if you use illegal drugs you are also guilty of murder.

Many of the same people who make the most noise about U.S. foreign wars are the same ones that bring murder and tyranny through their immoral drug use. What percentage of the rich and famous that are always whining about Iraq and George Bush use drugs and bring this death to the land? They ought to learn the meaning of the word hypocrite!

All who use illegal drugs are honorary members of the Demented, Delusional or Dumb Club.

Drug tyranny on the border - Washington Post- msnbc.com

More than 20,000 Mexican troops and federal police are engaged in a multi-front war with the private armies of rival drug lords, a conflict that is being waged most fiercely along the 2,000-mile length of the U.S.-Mexico border. The proximity of the violence has drawn in the Bush administration, which has proposed a $500 million annual aid package to help President Felipe Calderón combat what a Government Accountability Office report estimates is Mexico’s $23 billion a year drug trade.

Obama has become the black Messiah for a whole generation. I will give you seven reasons you why you should not make this man your idol or vote for him.

First, he is just a man. Obama has no special powers unless they are demonic.

Second, get to know what he really plans to do. If you knew instead of just getting caught up in this mass hysteria you would know that he is a globalist socialist. He will make the US subservient to the UN and transfer US wealth to other nations.

Third, many of Obama’s moral positions are in direct opposition to the absolute truths of the Bible.

Fourth, Obama’s brain has been altered by cocaine and who knows what else. He could be dangerously unstable. He might even have become demon possessed under the influence. That would explain the mesmerism he has over those looking for a Savior.

Fifth, Obama is supported by powerful occult leaders that are pushing a new age religion where man is like God. That should tell you wonders.

Sixth, he is supported by postmodern “Christian” leaders who have strayed from the gospel and have embraced doctrines of psychologies (demons) and endless heresies.

Seventh, he has no experience for the job. Obama is being considered for the job because he can induce a hysterical following.

Also read the article below.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Obama the Messiah of Generation Narcissism

Those are some kind of campaign promises. The kind no mortal could possibly keep, but never mind. Obi-Wan Obama is about hope — and hope, he’ll tell you, knows no limits.It is thus no surprise that the young are enamored of Obama. He’s a rock star. A telegenic, ultra-bright redeemer fluent in the planetary language of a cosmic generation. The force is with him.

But underpinning that popularity is something that transcends mere policy or politics. It is hunger, and that hunger is clearly spiritual. Human beings seem to have a yearning for the transcendent — hence thousands of years of religion — but we have lately shied away from traditional approaches and old gods.

Thus, in post-Judeo-Christian America, the sports club is the new church. Global warming is the new religion. Vegetarianism is the new sacrament. Hooking up, the new prayer. Talk therapy, the new witnessing. Tattooing and piercing, the new sacred symbols and rituals.

And apparently, Barack Obama is the new messiah.

WASHINGTON – The electrifying presidential campaign of Barack Obama
faces a new challenge – a Minnesota man who claims he took cocaine in
1999 with the then-Illinois legislator and participated in homosexual
acts with him.
When his story was ignored by the news media, Larry Sinclair made his case last month in a YouTube video, which has now been viewed more than a quarter-million times.And when it was still ignored by the media, Sinclair filed a suit in
Minnesota District Court, alleging threats and intimidation by Obama’s
staff.
Sinclair, who says he is willing to submit to a polygraph test to validate his claims, will now get his chance – thanks to a website offering $10,000 for the right to record it and $100,000 to Sinclair if he passes.

The real sad thing about this is that any front runner for the President of the United State could even remotely be believed to have done such things. Obama has admitted to cocaine use so all this becomes plausible. Does Obama’s past life display the good moral character we need in the white house? Why would anyone believe he has changed? Just because he said so?

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Obama has no distinguished record or no experience to be elected President. His drug record would disqualify him from any job in national defense requiring a high level security clearance. He presents no real plan for the future. All he has to offer is a winning smile.  People are hell bent into making him into something he is not. You have New Age/New Spirituality pushers and Idol’s like Oprah promoting him like he was their black Messiah. People are just dumping money at his feet.

We have famous evangelical religious leaders allowing him to speak from their pulpit like he had a Christian message. Meanwhile, he supports policies that are biblically evil. Obama speaks messages in Christian garb but they really are a social gospel of universalism.

It seems that all the undiscerning and gullible people in the nation have boarded Obama’s train to  disaster. They will only have themselves to blame when he cannot deliver them the promised land.

I have to conclude that half the nation is now beyond any spiritual help. They simply have made the choice to worship idols that they create in their own mind. We no longer elect national leaders in this nation. We elect American Idols.

I therefore fear for the future of America.

But Obama is part politician, part cult. Supporters wearing T-shirts with an Andy Warhol like pop-art image of his face testify to that. But then they - him - were once easy to dismiss until people realised Obama’s charisma was being matched by one of the most sophisticated ground operations ever seen. It is one that is outsmarting the Clinton machine. He’s marrying inspiration and cult with old-fashioned political grunt.

One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by Obama on the stump. It’s not so much by what he says but it’s the way the crowds respond to his words. When 16,000 people, without prompting, start shouting some of his keynote phrases as he delivers them, you know something special is going on.

The atmosphere at his events is such that one wonders if Obama is about to walk out with a basket with some loaves and fishes to feed the thousands.

And therein lays the danger for Obama. The Obama shuttle has made it into orbit but at some point he’s going to have to land this thing back on Earth.

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WorldNetDaily: Drugging the elderly into silence: “Have you ever walked through a nursing home and seen elderly patients slumped over, with their heads hanging low? My heart aches to see so many of our golden generation just passing time in a haze before they pass on.
When I discovered that many of these silver-haired saints are being drugged into a stupor, my heartache turned to anger. The heinous reality is, if nursing homes keep their patients drugged, they stand to reap benefits”

“The government is offering huge rewards to those who can show that a pharmaceutical company is promoting off-label uses for drugs or paying kickbacks. If you know of any specific instances of a pharmaceutical company engaging in this practice, such as in the nursing home context for antipsychotic drugs, then stand up and report it. You just might be standing up for someone who cannot even lift his or her head without your help. Achieving that certainly warrants a significant monetary reward.”

The ‘Concerned Local Citizens’ Program Grows into a Bona-Fide Phenomenon - HUMAN EVENTS: “Called “basically a thumb in the eye of the Maliki government that won’t get its [act] together” by one American officer, the Concerned Local Citizens program puts ground-level security in the hands of the individual tribes and groups who need it most. Under the program’s coalition-crafted guidelines, members of individual tribes are allowed to arm themselves and to conduct their own security operations and patrols, provided that, among other requirements, they submit to the authority of Coalition and Iraqi Security forces.
The main premise behind the Concerned Local Citizens program is simply the belief that Iraqis as a whole oppose the militias and terrorist groups that have plagued Iraq for the last several years — and that citizen empowerment, backed by the coalition, will lead to a rejection of the forces that terrorize the civilian population in a given area.”

We need to implement that same concept in our own inner cities.

WorldNetDaily: Bill guts border fence requirement: “‘Pulling back from the double-fence mandate is a prescription for failure that will only allow more smugglers, criminals and illegal aliens to enter the United States through our land border with Mexico,’ the California congressman added.
‘If enacted,’ Hunter concluded, ‘this legislation would represent a significant step backwards in the effort to secure our borders.’”

“I find it odd that such an important amendment which releases DHS from specific requirements of an existing law would be passed by a simple voice vote in the Senate and then buried in the massive omnibus bill,” Elliott said.
“The American people reasonably expect that a double-layer fence will be built, but Congress has always had other plans,” he argued. “This amendment should be stripped from the bill.”
Hunter agreed.

Spending bill shrinks border fence - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California.

The spending bill, written by Democrats and passed 253-154 with mostly their votes, surrenders to President Bush’s budget demands, meeting his spending limit with a $515 billion bill to fund most of the federal government and setting up votes to pay for the Iraq war. But Democrats reached his goal in part by slashing his defense and foreign-aid priorities to pay for added domestic spending.”

How did we know they would try to pull this on us? Congress obviously has no intention of doing what Americans want. We want a double fence with a patrolled road in-between to keep out drug runners, illegals and terrorists. We do not want a single wire fence that anyone can cut through. If congress will not get with the national security program I suggest we replace them all.

The American Spectator: “Human Rights Watch last week made headlines denouncing the United States for jailing more people per capita than any other country. The U.S. incarceration rate is 751 per 100,000 residents, the highest such rate in the world. Justice Department figures show that at the end of 2006, more than 2.25 million persons were incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails, an all-time high.” So why are there so many felons in the U.S.?

Drug use. I addressed this issue in an article I wrote about our criminal justice system

Islamists target Arizona base - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “Fort Huachuca, the nation’s largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility. Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.”

Excuse me, I did not just fall off the turnip truck. I am finding this “threat” to Fort Huachuca to be a work of pure fiction. Anyone attacking Fort Huachuca would be taking part in an almost instant suicide mission. It would also be insanity for Mexican drug cartels to want to take part in something like this. It would bring the certain end of them which of course is not in their best interest. Terrorists are not even having success in attacking soft targets in the US so they are not about to hit a hard target unless they have a nuke. In that case they would more likely go after a large city not a secure base that is spread out over square miles. I should believe the border patrol is not going to notice 60 well armed men in the deserts of Arizona? The border patrol is everywhere in this area you can’t even take a leak in the desert without being under observation.

This is planted information for some reason from one side or the other. It could be meant to take attention off the real target. Something more in line with the terrorists real capabilities, like a unarmed school or day care facility?

BBC NEWS Europe Steep rise in Europe cocaine use: “An annual report on drug use says around 4.5 million Europeans are likely to have used cocaine in the past year - a million more than in 2006. The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) says the increase in cocaine seizures and quantities also confirms its status as ‘Europe’s stimulant drug of choice’. Prevalence of the drug is highest in Spain and the UK but the biggest increases are in Denmark and Italy.”