Posted on 10/10/2014 6:41:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
The head of the FBI says a terrorist attack may be coming.
He doesn't know where or when, of course.
But Director James Comey says the hard-core terror group Khorasan is planning to attack the United States and is "looking to do it very, very soon."
Comey offered no details, nothing specific. He also used the weasle-word "may." Yet he says we all have to act as if a terrorist attack on us at home is "coming tomorrow."
So what is it? Is the FBI boss trying to prepare us for a real attack or is he just trying to scare us?
If the threat to the United States from Khorasan or ISIS is so real, and if it is so imminent, why aren't the FBI and the rest of the federal government giving us some guidance?
In California we're told to prepare for the earthquakes everyone knows are coming by making sure we always have water and food on hand. We're also told what to do during a quake and where to go to stay safe.
But when it comes to preparing for a terrorist attack on America, we hear nothing but vague scare stories from Washington.
Meanwhile, what are we regular citizens supposed to do while we wait for our inept government to try and defeat the terrorists overseas?
Never take an airplane or a cruise ship again? Cower in our basements with our children? Pray real hard? We're supposed to trust our government to protect us from being blown up at the mall or the local Friday
night high school football game.
But we all know there's no way the FBI or the local police department will be able to prevent every future terrorist attack in the USA.
Acts of terrorism in our own backyards are inevitable.
The government will try to stop them, but they won't be able to totally protect us.
When terrorism does occur, we'll call 911. Then the police and ambulances and the media will arrive. But then it already will be too late for some of our unlucky fellow citizens.
The Obama administration, as usual, is doing everything wrong. The president is still more interested in passing out food stamps when what he should be doing is passing out gun stamps.
He and his crew are pushing tougher gun controls but what they should be encouraging is more people to get guns and learn to use them.
The president is even afraid to use the word "war." But either we're at war with radical Islam or we're not.
If we're in a war, and if it's going to last 30 years or more, as former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta now says it will, start telling us how we can take steps to protect our own families.
Since the government can't protect us from terrorism at home, maybe we should start thinking and acting like Israel.
Maybe the citizenry should be better armed, trained to fight terrorists and be constantly on guard.
If we're really in a war with terrorists, we can't rely on the police. We civilians should be prepared to defend ourselves.
American citizens can be trusted. This is not the time for our federal government to go wobbly and try to further disarm the civilian population.
Instead of training me for a new job, Mr. Obama, train me to use a gun.
How can the government, mopping up EVERY bit of communication within the US, not know the details of the planned attack? What good are the myriad NSA programs if they can’t uncover these plots?
Conservatives' exercising of their 1st Amendment rights are the only "plots" that interest the NSA. ISIS isn't even on their scope.
Things like this really piss me off, because the purpose is a CYA (Cover Your A$$) tactic so they can point to this statement after all hell breaks loose and say: “I told you so!” For any other purpose, the declaration is totally worthless.
They don’t want to “prepare” us. They want us scared and dependent on the government.
Surprized this guy is a man. Aren’t most agencies run by women now?
ping Kaslin ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213551/posts ... #19 and #20. This will be my last post Mods on this matter. Pay attention please. Sorry for pulling my own chain Everyone but is time to send a message (in prayer and an action).
Khoroson is AQ.But AQ is dead isn’t it?I guess not.So much for the worst C.I.C. In the history of the United States.
Jimmy Carter must be feeling really good right now.Knowing he’s Not the Biggest dope around.
The FBI doesn't want "panic". Same excuse given by the CDC about Ebola.
Americans killed since year 2000 by:
Panic - ZERO
Radical Muslims: Thousands
Islamaphobes: ZERO
Black street gangs: Thousands
Tea Party Members: ZERO
Radical Christians: ZERO
Freepers: ZERO
The FBI, CDC, and Holder are concerned about the groups that are harmless... The groups that kill thousands of people are 'lower on their lists'...
The attack isn’t coming, it’s here.
We’re witnessing bio-terrorist attacks right now with people with diseases being allowed to pour into the country.
In the words of Osama bin Laden to Mullah Omar, the media is 90% of the preparation for the battle.
The terrorist will probably use some type of bio dirty bombs and everyone will be led to believe the terrorist picked up on the various diseases from illegals and the Ebola scare in the news and “spontaneously” planned a bio attack based on what is in the news instead of the diseases from illegals and the Ebola scare being orchestrated for the news as part of the preparation for the attacks.
Because while the government is collecting all this data on everyone, they cannot possible process it to get anything meaningful out of it.
Collecting is easy, trying to get something meaningful out of a sea of data is not.
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