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I think there's been a sea change in the last 48 hours.

I'm not talking about Bush and his announced plan to create a Department of Homeland Security.

I'm not talking about Rush Limbaugh, who is a great talker, but he's not what the change is about.

Certain visible opinion leaders are beginning to step out in front of public opinion and demand radical changes in our domestic security structure, regarding profiling, border security, and other areas politicians and people like Tom Ridge won't touch.

I count them as follows:
Lou Dobbs mentioning Islamists.
Bill O'Reilly on border security, and today, indirectly calling for pre-emptive assassinations of terrorists (in a discussion about the CIA)
An opinion leader, I forget who, who on the Wall Street Journal op-ed page said we should pre-announce that we will nuke Mecca if a major American city is nuked
Now this piece by Peggy Noonan

Hopefully this can snowball and begin to be recognized by the popular culture.

Some people call these ideas conservative, but I think this opinion stream is going under the banner of common sense. (Conservatives would just say conservatism IS common sense).

This is one of the great things about our society, that opinion can move like this. Hopefully it will be fast enough to work that we can have something in place before the next strike. If not, hopefully the next strike will be a glancing blow and the next strike can wake up any segment of the population that has any self-preservation instincts left.

Meanwhile, idiots like Noam Chomsky prattle.

Call me superstitious if you like, but because of my religious belief, and because I believe there is a prime mover of evil in the world, a personality, Satan, I believe bad things WILL continue to happen. Possibly this will lead to the end of the world, I don't know. I just believe that because Satan is Lord of the current earth, he WILL have continued successes. We should continue to pray that the Lord will give us a protective shield.

You're absolutely right. God is the only one who can give us that protection. The government isn't able to do that. Yes, they can stop some things from happening but they can't be everywhere at once. Things ARE going to happen and they will be big and hurtful but we can still have peace in our hearts when they do because God IS in control and He cares about us. We need to pray like never before for God to move in the Islamic nations. For him to move in Cuba and the Phillipines, the Middle East, in America! We need a change of heart or we will destroy ourselves as well.