Posted on 03/01/2009 3:38:44 PM PST by John Semmens
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced a 180-degree turn from the Bush Administration’s approach to guarding the nation’s security.
“By its emphasis on the negative, the Bush Administration gave strength to those who would harm us,” Napolitano contended. “Calling it a ‘war on terror’ for example, elevated the scale of violence and increased the risk that we would provoke more attacks.”
Napolitano cast her new policy as “the power of positive thinking.” “When I was a small child I was fascinated by the story of Peter Pan,” she said. “Just by thinking happy thoughts the characters could fly. Ultimately, they were able to defeat the pirates and return home safely. If we can create those same positive vibes, we, too, can triumph over the modern day pirates who are causing such mischief around the world.”
Staff members at the Department of Homeland Security have been instructed to revise the language they use to describe the current situation. Out are terms like “terrorist” and “vulnerable.” In place of these negative terms, the Department staff is advised to use “those with a different world view” and “a society open to alternative perspectives of life,” respectively.
Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.), the Republican minority’s top ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, called Napolitano’s strategy “appallingly naïve.” “She obviously living in some sort of fantasy land,” he wryly observed. “Apparently, she believes we can rely on the ‘kindness of strangers’ to protect us. I think she dangerously misperceives the threat.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed King’s criticism as “missing the point.” “The president is an internal optimist, so he does have Peter Pan-like qualities,” Gibbs said. “He’s brought a new sense of hope to the world. I think if we all give him our unquestioning faith, this country may find a strength that has been blocked by the narrow thinking of the past.”
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This has got to be Scrappleface, right?
Thanks to liberals like Napolitano, most small children these days think Peter Pan is a wash basin in a “ho” house.
This is a joke right? We are going to defeat terrorists by thinking happy thoughts? Somebody get her out of there quick before she gets us all killed.
Yeah, just keep saying to yourself, they won’t hurt us, they won’t hurt us. Jeez
She can do for National Security what she did for Border Security back in Arizona.
Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of America. Arizona has hundreds of thousands of illegals crossing the border every year and they are provably not all Mexicans ‘coming to cut our grass and wash dishes’. Napolitano sabotaged every effort to secure the border even as she publicly talked about how important it was and how much she was in favor of doing it.
Typically liberal, all well-intentioned speeches and ineffective or destruction actions.
Living in a dream world. God help us!
SATIRE with this current gang in power is just too close to realistic.
The Sick Fact is This is NOT SATIRE! It is the GOD’S HONEST TRUTH:-( Napolitano actually believes this Sick, Twisted Logic! She has already forbid the use of the words “TERROR, TERRORISTS, WAR ON TERROR, etc.” This is SICK and It is DEMENTED!
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If we have a terrorist attack on US soil the best we can hope for is for it to happen in San Francisco while Nancy Pelosi is hosting a big Democrat party gathering.
I don’t believe The Onion could make this stuff up!
"Living in a dream world. God help us!"
The abrasive Michael Savage who is often dismissed here as and odd ball on FR would say "liberalism is a mental disorder". I have not yet heard a better assessment.
The new DHS policy:
Kick ALL legalized and natural born citizens out of the country and give citizenship to all the filth coming over our southern border.
That will give the Democrats a solid voting advantage until the US collapses into another third world state in about three years.
Reminds me of the old song “Everything is beautiful in its own way.....”. When the next terrorist attack comes, I am sure both parties will blame each other but the sad fact is both parties have failed to sealed our borders and protect Americans. I am also sure that when the next attack comes members of both parties will don sackcloth, sprinkle ashes on their heads, beat their chest and vow it will never happen again....then 6 months later it will be business as usual.
I recall a story about the late leftie Bertrand Russell....
Arrested at a 60's anti-nuclear war demo....he was asked in jail:
Jailer:...And what do you do...?
Bertie:...I am a philospoher.
Jailer: and what might a philosopher do...?
Bertie:....I think.
Jailer: So do you think you could clean those latrines with this bucket and mop:
>>>“The president is an internal optimist, so he does have Peter Pan-like qualities,” Gibbs said.
I agree. Obama does have Peter Pan-like qualities.
I bet Donald Young had pictures of him in tights. We know how that turned out.
The power of positive thinking....thinking happy thoughts...triumph over those who are causing mischief around the world.
She really is part of BO’s Magic Kingdom. God help us.
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