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Guantanamo In Perspective

Before There was a Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo, This monster and 18 of his very best friends were able to infiltrate this country.

Remember that face. Think about what it does to you to see it.

He and his men, Using nothing more sophisticated than box cutters and human ingeniuity, were able to do this:

and this:

These are pictures of 3,000 people, 3,000 living, breathing human beings being turned into carbon. The lives of countless others altered forever because of the murderous acts of 19 men who for several years before lived in the very largess of the United States. Our kindness, our comittment to Human Rights mattered for nothing in the minds of the men who turned people into corpses that day in September.

As a result of the direct inaction by goverment authorities responsible for tracking and tracing threats to the United States, thousands of people died. No one in the Government stopped Attas men, frankly no one even tried to stop them, lest they be accused of "racist" acts. Any attempt to monitor, or deny entry to Mohammed Atta and his band of murderous bastards was going to be met with lawsuits from people who were only interested in the possible violation of rights of the poor put upon people of the Middle east and not the potential for the extinction for 3,000 people on one sunny day in September.

Later, Mohammad Attas friends overseas were able to do this:

And this:

Get it? The war Atta brought to us didnt end when he died on September 11th, the war goes on. These people make no issue at all with killing anyone they can, through any methods available. They are to restrained by morality or ethical codes. Death, yours or theirs and preferrable both is all that they desire.

But you should rest assured that before he died while flying a Commerical Jet filled with women and children into office buildings, filled with other men and women whos only crime was simply being on time for work one day, Mohammed Atta was well protected and his civil rights were guaranteed by the very government he was sworn to destroy. You'll notice that the respect we paid to him and his minions during his stay in our country had no effect whatsoever in his desire to kill us. While he was planning to kill thousands of people in downtown Manhattan, Mohammed Atta was protected by the full faith and credit of the Constitution of the great satan.

Before we were massacred on 9/11, no one would dare say that a man like Mohammaed Atta was trying to kill thousands of people, to say so was to be deemed as "an obvious racist", such is the insanity of our culture. What we would have been concerned with then was the potential "backlash to the Islamic community". Fear then as now is reserved for the backcountry hicks that our culture irrationally fears above all other things.

This is what 9/11 did to us. It didnt just kill our neighbors, family and friends but it killed them in mid town Manhattan, New York. New York is "our town", everyones town, no matter where they lived in the world. What the massacre of 9/11 finally showed the American people something they have never really wanted to believe; that there are people and forces in the world who want nothing more than to kill every single one of us, left or right, liberal or conservative, man or woman, white or black.

Dead.

Now, think of all the things that happened afer 9/11. Think of that pitch that The President threw in Shea Stadium just a few days after the Massacre. Think of when we all wondered if we would ever see planes in the sky again. Think of the fear we had for the Winter Olympics in 2002. Think of every event, every parade, every gathering, every opportunity that could have and probalby should have been attacked or destroyed since then.

Ponder that for a bit. Do your own math on the number of times you've flown since 9/11, the number of concerts youve been to, the amount of raw unrefined freedom that you've tasted since 9/11. Remember that for a few days after that utterly horrible day we all thought it would end. Remember how politics as gone on as normal since then, that elections have been held, the President has been accused of the very worst crimes by people around the world, large and small,rich and poor none of which have served a moment in jail for their seditious and sometimes treasonous acts. Not once, not nowhere. Its not even been suggested.

Think of the Rose Parades, Thanksgiving Day parades, St. Patricks day parades, and so on.

Think of the Olympics.

And remember, Without Guantanamo, Without the ability to gather information and to literally chase the terrorists from one end of the globe to the other, shut down their funding, find the safe houses, shut down their cells, none of that would have occured.

Remember that face at the beginning? There have been many, many like him that have been stopped since 9/11. You just havent seen their faces, because to do so would weaken our attempts to infiltrate and destroy their networks. If I showed you Attas face on 9/10 what would you have said? But with perspective of 9/11 and what we now know about that man and the network that he operated in, we now know better.

Imagine if Atta had been stopped.

Imagine if Atta were in here

living safely behind bars, with a government provided Koran and three squares a day. he would be angry that he was caught, but he would thank his lucky stars that he was incarcerated by the United States, rather than Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Russia or even Israel. Imagine how you would feel if you knew what Atta was going to do and you had managed to stop him. Imagine standing outside his cell, knowing that he had a plan to take commercial aircraft and crash them into buildings, only he had been stopped at immigration and information from other sources confirmed that he was part of the Bin Laden network. That sort of thing happens every day at Guantanamo, unfortunately Atta isnt there, but many people are who are equally as bad if not worse. Guantanamo is not full of traffic violators, these men intended to kill us by what ever means necessary.

When someone talks to you about torture at Guantanamo, try to remember that the worst form of torture for the detainees in Guantanamo is the idea that someday they might be given back to their country of origin, not that they are getting rice pilaf and orange chicken thrice weekly in Cuba.

Because of the reserve of the President and the actions of Secretary Rumsfeld, your life will go on pretty much as it always has, despite our being at war. The efforts of the Jihadis to take the world back to the enslavement of the 11th century Caliphate is ending. Slowly, with fits and starts, but it is already on its way to the grave.

Not in spite of Guantanamo and Camp X-ray, but because of it.

I Thank God for the service of men and women who work at Camp X-ray.
I Thank God for Guantanamo.

May the day when Camp X-ray is no longer needed come as soon as possible, but let us not close the camp one day before the job is done.

We were careless once, and thousands of people died. Let us not make the same mistake again.

Posted @ June 14, 2005 12:54 PM | Current Affairs

Posted by: MerryMadMonk at June 14, 2005 08:50 PM

Posted by: Richmond at June 15, 2005 11:22 AM