Take SEATS!!! DO NOT be at ease!!! You are on alert, at threat level
Charlie! I want you scanning 360 degrees, especially your 6 o'clock.
The inmates are running the asylum and there is IMMINENT danger!!! I
am really tired of playing Paul Revere but somebody has to do it.
If the Scots, who are (I am ashamed to say) my distant cousins,
released this terrorist for "humanitarian reasons", then they are
criminally stupid!!! If it was (as I have read, possibly) a business
deal, then they are just, plain, criminal and there is no excoriation
too severe (or even severe enough) to be directed at them.
It would be bad enough to release someone (who is obviously sufficiently healthy
to appreciate and participate in the hero's homecoming) thinking that
he is dying and no threat.
It reminds me of the song about the soft-hearted (and HEADED) woman
who, finding a half-frozen, poisonous, snake took it in and warmed it
by the fire. She was, then, astonished when the snake bit her,
fatally. As she died, reproaching the snake for betraying her kindness
the snake said, "Silly woman,you knew I was a snake before you took me
in."
One of the first things the military teaches about dealing with the
enemy is that if they are breathing, they are dangerous. If they are
not breathing, they could be faking and STILL be dangerous.You NEVER
turn your back on the people who are trying to kill you, unless you
have rendered them incapable of doing harm.
When my father had cancer, it was many months, into the progression of the disease before he lost
the ability to think rationally and even then, he had the ability to
try to conspire with his 14 year-old son to smuggle a knife in because
he was having paranoid delusions. He was deranged, but he was still smart.
In the case of a radical ideologue, who has already demonstrated his
willingness to take innocent life, the only time he may be "harmless"
is when he is under constant sedation, just prior to death. Any time
before that, he could still plot and even execute another terrorist
bombing or other, deadly action.
I hope I am wrong, that he has seen the error of his ways, really
become one with God and just wishes to be with his family, for the
time he has left. If I were a betting man, I'd lay a bundle that as
soon as the party was over or (depending on how much time he has)
maybe during the party, he was "eyebrows deep" in another plot, to
kill more "infidels" (you, me, our families)
and gain more rewards from Allah.
If it WAS a business deal and if he does what I expect (or even if he
doesn't) I hope the malefactors who facilitated his release are
caught and given a punishment suited to those who betray their country
in time of war. Remember, we weren't at war with them, but they were
at war with us. Anyone who gives aid & comfort to those who war on
their country, especially using (abusing) a position of trust should
look to God for mercy and be given justice by their peers.
In addition to all of these considerations, if this scum was given a
life sentence, for taking lives, that is supposed to mean that he dies
(from whatever cause) in prison, never having walked free again. That
is supposed to BE the punishment!!! It shouldn't matter that he is,
now, terminally ill and (supposedly) no longer a threat.
Unless we are taken by a sudden heart attack or stroke, we are all
likely to suffer a terminal illness. That should not have been grounds
to release a pre-meditated,conspired murderer.
I hope my cousins will look VERY CLOSELY at the circumstances of this
action and at the people who made it happen. Something smells VERY
FISHY!!! Remember, just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't
out to get you. THEY ARE!!!
I want to see those heads in a permanent
condition of swivel, with eyes open. Maintain readiness to "drop a
dime" at anything that looks suspicious. It is much better to say "Oh,
yeah, that explains it," than to say, "Oh, H__L!!! I wish I'd reported
that !!"
Join a neighborhood watch, or a volunteer emergency service
group, or something.
As my D.I.'s used to say "Get off your dead a__ &
on your dyin' feet & MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!! On your FEET!!! God bless y'all & God bless America!!!
Class dis-MISSED!!! Sgt Mack,out, closing station & leaving the air.
