Napolitano Outlines New Homeland Security Approach

A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 28 Feb 2009 | John Semmens

[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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[Melchior]

Enter the Peter Pan Principle. That ought to really really scare Al Qaeda.

[Liz]

HOMELAND SECY NAPOLITANO: "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."

Egads---this sap-happy numbskull is supposed to be protecting Americans?

Course, that idiotic statement does sound like the Bush/Rove fairy trale-------

.........that Turd World killers, rapists, robbers, beheaders, and druggies they were allowing to crawl into our country would become SO enamored of democracy they would forget their criminal ways and become upstanding (illegal) US citizens.....

.......as they slobbered at the public trough and threw our economy into a tailspin.

[AuntB]

“the Department staff is advised to use “those with a different world view” and “a society open to alternative perspectives of life,” respectively.”

Yeah, Mexican thugs who behead more people than anyone in the world have a ‘different world view”....

And the organized crime out of Mexico with her city of Phoenix holding the title of ‘kidnap capital’ are ‘open to alternative perspecitves of life’...and DEATH.

YOU stupid, dangerous woman!

[Liz]

.....Mexican thugs beheadung people have a ‘different world view”....Mexican organized crime's ‘Phoenix kidnap capital’ are ‘open to alternative perspecitves of life’.......

Change we can believe in (sniffle).