Inept Governance...?

"Analysis of the government’s ineffectiveness when it comes to protecting its citizens from terrorist attacks provides us with a record of gross misconduct, incompetence and inefficiency. Intelligence gathering failures by the government are voluminous. Misuse and abuse by the political appointees heading up these bureaucracies is alarming.

Since the Islamic militants declared war on the United States there have been 70 separate and successful terrorist attacks launched upon Americans, while living within the United States. These radicalized Muslims have killed 3,101 innocent men, women and children. They seriously wounded 2,283. Those numbers do not include Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan’s alleged murderous rampage at Ft. Hood, where 13 soldiers were killed and 32 wounded. This incident was deemed an act of workplace violence rather than an act of terrorism.

These casualties do not reflect any of the murderous attacks launched by terrorists on Americans and their civilian employees living outside the Continental United States. These numbers are startling: 37 successful attacks leaving 1,414 individuals killed and 5,237 wounded.

Please understand that the members of our Armed Forces and their civilian contingencies, who are being killed and wounded in Iraqi and Afghanistan, are not included in the aforementioned tally.

Is this what you call ‘intelligence gathering’? Securing data to preemptively take the attack to those who are determined to harm us has been disorganized and inept. There aren’t many secrets nor much to tell. A bloated and amateurish government bureaucracy unable to do its job, where an employee is rarely terminated or demoted for being a bumbler isn’t comforting.


Do we want our lives scrutinized in perpetuity by a government that views the Bill of Rights and Constitution as obsolete and irrelevant? The advent of a surveillance state that digs into our lives, as it exacerbates its power and control, is a death blow to the liberty and freedoms that we once held dear.

Perhaps if the government spent more time infiltrating and penetrating behind enemy lines, rather than surveilling law-abiding citizens, our world would be a safer place."
-- Source undetermined