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Warning: Our Government Is a Threat to Public Safety
Townhall.com ^ | September 18, 2013 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/18/2013 3:28:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

Forget gun control. America needs government control. Have you noticed the common thread among several mass killings and homeland security incidents lately?

Time and again, it's the control freaks in Washington who have fallen down on their jobs, allowing crazies, creeps and criminals to roam free and wreak havoc while ignoring rampant red flags. Let's review:

Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis: Despite gun-grabbing Democrats' best efforts to blame a nonexistent "AR-15" for this week's horrific Navy Yard massacre, the truth is seeping out about shooter Aaron Alexis. The 34-year-old Navy veteran had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for a host of mental problems that plagued him for up to a decade.

Officials say Alexis was paranoid, had a sleep disorder, suffered from schizophrenia and was "hearing voices." He told Newport, R.I., police after an altercation just last month that he believed a "microwave machine" was sending vibrations through a wall into his body. Friends say he was a heavy drinker and violent video game addict. A ticking time bomb, he had racked up a string of misconduct incidents during his military stint ranging from absenteeism to insubordination to disorderly conduct. He was arrested in Seattle in 2004 and in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2010 for separate anger-fueled shootings that terrorized neighbors and innocent bystanders.

Yet somehow Alexis passed several military background checks, gained high-level security clearance and had access to multiple military installations. The civilian contractor who employed Alexis blasted the feds on Tuesday for failing to fully disclose his history. "Anything that suggests criminal problems or mental health issues, that would be a flag," Thomas Hoshko of The Experts told The Washington Post. "We would not have hired him." And 12 innocent people might still be alive today.

Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan: The red flag-ignoring government seems to have become an affirmative action employer for rage-filled madmen. Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan, sentenced to death last month, had warned his military superiors well in advance of the massacre that he was prone to violence. Citing convicted Army fragger Hasan Akbar and others, Hasan emphasized that he was not alone among Muslim soldiers who believed they "should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly."

The feds buried concerns about Hasan and instead kept him employed to prevent accusations of discrimination. They did not want to be "crucified," according to one Army investigator. Twelve innocent men and women, plus one unborn baby, died as a consequence of the government's malign neglect and feckless indulgence of political correctness.

TSA nutball Nna Alpha Onuoha: Then there's the TSA. Last week, a former TSA agent was arrested on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks for calling in threats to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and warning that there would be a "baptism of fire" on 9/11/13. Investigators found a raft of handwritten nutball notes by disgruntled TSA screener 29-year-old Nna Alpha Onuoha tacked up in his closet. Onuoha also operated a bizarro website titled Satanhasfallen.org, which featured "end of the world" essays. He was the same TSA agent who made headlines earlier this summer after harassing a 15-year-old girl at LAX over her modest apparel.

How did this young, single male from Nigeria of limited means get into the country in the first place, let alone end up at the TSA? I've heard from countless veterans and former police officers over the years who were rejected from TSA positions for being "overqualified." Yet somehow Onuoha moved to the front of the TSA employment line.

How many more? The agency's lax background checks and politically correct hiring practices are notorious. In July, the Government Accountability Office reported a 26-percent rise in employee misconduct violations over the past three years, ranging from theft to chronic sleeping on the job to ignoring basic screening protocols. Discipline is inconsistent to nonexistent. Last year, GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee documented 50 galling examples of TSA employees arrested for crimes ranging from child pornography, drugs, rape and prostitution to bribery, conspiracy, assault and murder.

Two years ago, another GAO report revealed that TSA's counterterrorism specialists had failed to detect 16 separate jihad operatives who moved through target airports "on at least 23 different occasions." Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has released nearly 3,000 illegal alien sex offenders from detention. And rank-and-file ICE agents blew the whistle this summer on the Obama administration's release of untold numbers of violent criminals who were designated as amnesty-eligible "DREAMers."

The motto of our homeland security overlords is "not on our watch." But like so much else attached to our post-9/11 national security bureaucracy, that motto has become a punchline. With the feds and military leaders looking the other way or closing their eyes altogether to menaces within their ranks, there is no watch. It's a Code Red alert for government incompetence.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: govincompetence; guncontrol; navyyardshooting; secondamendment; terrorism

1 posted on 09/18/2013 3:28:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The feds are somehow buryin Obama’s records too. Plenty of good people in the military get passed for the promotion of freak like these. Color and homosexuality are like a prereq now.


2 posted on 09/18/2013 3:33:32 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Kaslin

Look, we do not have any honest people left to work in these jobs. What do they expect? We even have a druggie for president who couldn’t pass a background check if his life depended on it.


3 posted on 09/18/2013 3:58:48 AM PDT by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: lucky american

Indeed


4 posted on 09/18/2013 3:59:50 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Michelle Malkin, aside from being stunningly beautiful and absolutely brilliant, is utterly insightful and nails this one down tight.


5 posted on 09/18/2013 4:32:58 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Jack Hammer

She sure does


6 posted on 09/18/2013 4:34:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
I feel the USN shooter in DC was allowed to get as far as he'd did due to PC race baiting fears.
No one in authority wanted to finger this guy for being a loon and a looser because he was black.I feel every one in the food chain of background checks,public,private and USN disciplinary authority gave him a pass for fear of him,Alexus, making a race charge(s) and they did NOT wanting to deal with it.
They never court marshaled him for bad behavior or spoke up at the VA about his paranoia.
Why?
7 posted on 09/18/2013 5:03:32 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: t1b8zs
Just wait until they do the "background checks" (sic) on millions of illegal aliens.

Every Mafiosi thug from Baku to Bogata will be getting American amnesty papers, and will be a voting American citizen.


8 posted on 09/18/2013 5:06:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin
Forget gun control. America needs government control. Have you noticed the common thread among several mass killings and homeland security incidents lately?

Remember that the Clinton Administration disarmed our Armed Forces at military bases.

Remember that the liberals closed our insane asylums, and put crazy people on the street.

Remember that liberals created the quota system to ensure that the best qualified did not get the job if they were the wrong race or gender.

Our country has been "dumbed down" now for thirty years.

9 posted on 09/18/2013 5:08:10 AM PDT by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

For Eric Holder race trumps all. Plus the Rats get to trot out their gun control whores.


10 posted on 09/18/2013 5:08:55 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Kaslin

I would add ... additional threats to Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness.


11 posted on 09/18/2013 5:40:21 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: VRWC For Truth

Impeachment file on “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


12 posted on 09/18/2013 5:58:44 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: lavaroise; Kaslin; sickoflibs; Grampa Dave; stephenjohnbanker; Ann Archy; GOPJ; thouworm; ...
Navy Yard shooter Alexis passed several military background checks, gained high-level security clearance and had access to multiple military installations.

Alexis is a-n-o-t-h-e-r sap-happy Obam/Prog innovation.

This kook gives out securirty clearances like they were Ecstasy pills.

Since the Prog got in, some 5 million Ohaha henchmen were given top security clearance.

Ntl security be damned.

How many other Alexis' are there in that bunch?

13 posted on 09/18/2013 6:22:54 AM PDT by Liz
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These people are getting us killed every single day...Until it hits near to home, no one seems to notice...Or care...


14 posted on 09/18/2013 8:25:50 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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