Carl Worden - Southern Oregon Militia June 1, 2002 Yes, I've been quiet lately. I tend to do that when I'm so exasperated by what I see going on that I find myself too stunned to write about it. In this case it has taken me awhile to collect my thoughts -- as well as my breath. Let's start with former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms moron John McGaw's seemingly unilateral decision to bar commercial airline pilots from carrying guns on their aircraft. There's this niggling hope that springs up in me whenever such blatant government stupidity reveals itself: I'm hoping it's a deceptive trick, and not the real thing. In other words, I don't think it would be smart to advertise that commercial airline pilots are probably carrying guns in their cockpits, because the bad guys will then plan for that contingency. A clever and deliberate deception would be the kind of thing I would expect of the Mossad and the old, pre-gutted and pre-emaciated Viet Nam era CIA, but my negative side insists this administration just isn't that smart. My half-empty, "wake up and smell the toast" side says the idiots really don't want those pilots to have guns even after what happened on 9/11, and I base that on all the other lunacy I am observing. For example, Donald Rumsfeld & Company have been telling us to expect a devastating and deadly on-shore terrorist attack for a few weeks now. It could be nuclear, chemical or biological, and it's the old, "not if, but when" warning that I tend to take very seriously. The problem is that I don't see "them" taking it seriously, and not by a long shot. How would I take such a threat seriously? The very first thing I would do, and I would have done it immediately after 9/11, is to authorize every law enforcement agency operating in the United States to stop and identify anyone who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. All those who prove to be American citizens would be given a special certification to show any other law enforcement officers who stop them that they've already been checked out. All the others, whether here on a valid visa or not, would be shipped home, no if's and's or but's, and NO exceptions. You see, I don't care about what is and what is not politically correct when it comes to protecting the lives of my fellow citizens. If there is even the slightest chance some bozo is going to walk into a packed American theater with five pounds of C-4 strapped to his body, I'm going to do absolutely everything in my presidential power to at least make it damned difficult for him. Isn't that what a government is supposed to do -- to protect the citizens? Isn't that the very first duty of a government? What the hell is going on here? Didn't around 3,000 American citizens have their lives snuffed out on 9/11 by Arabic and other Middle-Eastern nationals, or did this administration already forget? I am so sorry to report we have a certifiable moron sitting in the office of the American presidency, and there's not a thing we can do about it. Right now, he has scheduled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to drop by Pakistan and India in about a week to help iron out some minor difficulties regarding an immediate and impending nuclear exchange between the two countries over the disputed province of Kashmir. In about a week (!) both countries could be smoking holes, with a massive cloud of radiation spreading all over the earth, but the first chance we've got to get somebody over there to break up the fight is in a week? I'm sorry; I thought an impending nuclear exchange between two countries in close proximity to our troops stationed in Afghanistan was a fairly serious matter, but the utterly cool, collected and mildly retarded Mr. Bush apparently doesn't seem to think so. So yes, I'm damned concerned about what I'm seeing right now, not the least of which involves this totally phony "overhaul" of the FBI. Overhaul, my fanny! Not a single one of those high-level slackers got fired, and the actual "overhaul" involves hiring 900 additional FBI agents. So if I understand this amazing strategy correctly, we're making this a high-stakes game for the citizens where we leave every possible suspected terrorist right here among us, and we change the way the FBI operates to try to catch them before they can strap on a bomb and go for a walk? Is that the very best idea this administration could think of? During the Memorial Day weekend, a New York cop stopped four Pakistani nationals in a car. They had fake identification and told some real whoppers as to why they were illegally here. According to news reports, the INS was contacted and told the police to release them. It happened on a weekend, you see, and the INS boys were home working the barbecue. In my Mossad/CIA/Carl Worden mentality, I'd have rigged their car with so many tracking and listening devices that the car would almost glow in the dark, but my more realistic side says there's no chance anybody was that smart. I doubt they have a clue where to even begin to look for those Pakistanis right now, and just maybe they'll show up in a nice, packed theater near you. Truly, a village idiot is running this asylum.

Carl F. Worden Liaison Officer Southern Oregon Militia

Ed. note: Is all fair in war? Question of the Day (racial profiling), and who (by color chart and/or religion) is gonna drop the next bomb? After returning from his haj (pilgrimage - to Mecca), Malcolm X said, "You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond and whose skin was the whitest of whites. And we are brothers, truly; people of all colors and races believing in One God and one humanity." To deny the actualizing (spiritual) dynamic of Islam is to deny honest Q&A communication, and this in the context of "what they knew and when they knew it" is the wrong question. Just as God is the Merciful AND the Mercy-giving, Islam means peace but as a religion (Return to God), Islam is actualized as a commitment to peace. The right question, speaking of the spiritual aspect of Islam, would have been what DIDN'T they know? What did they not know (experientially) of Islam and/or of (experiential) fairness? There are the proverbial and prophetic "seventy-seven" variations of Islam, much to the chagrin of the Prophet, peace be upon him. We know about the Sunni, the Shi'ah and the Sufi, as the predominent branches. Lately we've heard about the Wahabbi and the Taliban, and while the real power is in the Sufi realm, what we see on TV is an elephant's ass with the Wahabbi and the Taliban making pimple-sized threats and proportionally insignificant terror strikes - the U.S. military has killed more innocents in the past year than Al-Quaida, Hammas, Islamic Jihad and a half dozen other Muslim "terrorist" groups have killed in the past ten years. Arafat couldn't accept a Palestinian state that didn't have water rights, one one that was interspersed with Israeli settlements. The offer wasn't fair from the git. Try this: The FBI is going around asking Arab-American Muslims how many times a day they pray. If they answer "five", then they are suspected of being fundamentalists? It's an impossible starting point for determining who might be a terrorist, when the Sufi, for example DON'T pray five (or so) times a day and the rest of their time is spent in a Dance of the Wu Li Masters - in a constant (trance-like) state of prayer or meditation. Your average Sufi are not inclined to commit terrorists acts, but more than that, in such a state of actualized devotion, it's like little old ladies doing beads after mass or cloistered nuns or monks in fulltime prayer even for the rest of the flock and for the good of the world and for God's sake. This kind of devotional prayer tends to knock the spiritual wind out of the kind of mischief conjured up by pedophile priests, or in the case of Islam, the un-Islamic behavior of Jerry Falwelland/or suicide bombers in the U.S. or downtown Tel Aviv. Sure, once in a while the personalities and their antics show up on the front page of the New York Times or on Nightline or CNN, the kind of nominal religion and related personal willfulness of the religious fakes have no real staying power. Their lightweight mischief can't hold a candle to the real power of prayer, and that because God's will is God's will and that's that. That's a tough one to take, because nothing happens without being the Perfect Will of God, and that too is that!! Is this too over-simplified for mental digestion? But going back to fairness as a working dynamic in the Cause of God and how as humans we are blessed with participation in the jihad (struggle). Fairness is closer to the Perfect Will of God than hypocrisy. What does the U.S. practice? Fairness (generally) or hypocrisy (generally) as a matter of policy? What then can we (as a nation) expect in (the what goes around) return? How about a couple of planes into the sides of a couple of buildings, killing 2,500 of our citizens and guests? How about in return we retaliate by killing 5,000 Afghani civilians in our attempt to kill Usama bin Laden and the Taliban and Al-Quaida soldiers on the ground? Is it fair that in our killing 18 of the enemy, 5,000 Afghani innocents were necessarily killed and counted as collateral damage? The 911 terrorists, nearly all Sa'udi, were brown in color and spoke English with Arabic accents. Obviously, the planners of the 911 attack were quite clever and bright; that was some operation! Do you think the next time they attack the United States, they'll use Arab-looking terrorists? Not likely. People who hate America, as Malcolm pointed out in describing the second most important turning point in his life, are not necessarily, Arab or black or brown or Asian or Filipino. Timothy McVeigh was white. Racial profiling is racist, practiced racism and a dead end. Time wasted in stopping and questioning "suspects" by color, rather than by doing good investigative police work, will be the death of us all. Could it be that the war by one side is FOR fairness, and on the other a war is waged AGAINST people seeking fairness? And where does racism fit into this fairness proposal? -- dxm