We all agree that our nation is at war.  We have our troops in the heat of battle, dying for their country.  The casualty count is over 30,000 now according to Antiwar.com.  

Being a nation at war, you would expect that our Federal Government would be on what used to be called a “war footing” where all the top brass and their top staffers, from the President on down to the mess hall workers,  are working at top efficiency to actually win this war in the shortest amount of time possible.  So that the men and women who are making the largest sacrifices for our Nation can come back to be with their wives and husbands, their sons and daughters, so that our fighting men and women can come home.

But looking at the ACTIONS of our government officials since the war began, looking BEFORE the war began, looking as far back as 9/11, neither former President Bush or President Obama have acted as if we are a nation at war.  Neither has the House or the Senate.  And if the quote on quote leadership isn’t in war mode, we know that the agencies and people that serve under them are not on a war footing either.  

After 9/11, our federal government immediately passed the Patriot Act which tramples on almost every Amendment in the Bill of Rights in a whole of different ways.  They created the TSA and the DHS regardless of the fact that these jobs were already being done by other agencies.  And the FBI and CIA and the other alphabet of government agencies looked busy for awhile.  

And most of these bills, weren’t even completely written at the time they were voted on. If there was a final draft of the bill before it was voted upon, it wasn’t delivered in time to be read BEFORE the vote.  

HR 3162 became Public Law 107-56 on 26 OCT 01 here’s what Ron Paul had to say about it.



Did you hear what Dr. Paul said there? The part about when it’s a really important bill, the standard operating procedure is to vote without reading it.  I don’t know about you, but I don’t even sign a credit card receipt without reading it.  Would you ever sign a contract without reading it first?  If your one of the smart people out there then your answer is a resounding no.  But in Washington, our “representatives” are signing contracts that bind ALL OF US without READING the BILL!!!  

But Rick, it was a stressful situation, something had to be done and done quickly.  It was an issue of national security.  Oh Really?  Fast forward to this last summer.  Let’s listen to what John Conyers a long time GA congressman had to say about something as important as reading the bill before voting for it to become law


During this whole fiasco you would think that between 11 SEP and 26 OCT a full month and half, there was wide outcry for a full investigation of the horrible acts of 9/11.  The most heinous act of terror ever committed on US soil.  One would think that our leaders would have called for the immediate investigation of that horrific, heart wrenching day in our nation’s history.

After all, the Warren Commission that investigated the Assassination of JFK was ordered on 29 NOV 63 one week after the President was murdered. After Pearl Harbor the Roberts Commission was enacted by Executive Order on 18 DEC 41 Just 11 days after the attack.

The 9/11 Commission wasn’t formed by executive order.  It was enacted by
Congressional Order as Title IV of what became Public Law 107-306 an appropriations bill.  One of a bunch that year as I recall.  The date? 27 NOV 02. It took them OVER A YEAR! And there was all kinds of hu hu about it.  They didn’t have enough money and had to fight to get some more.  There were issues over who was going to be on the Commission and a whole lot of other stuff that I’m going to go over in detail on another Show.  

So then we go to war, we invade Afghanistan and Iraq.  We rolled into Afganistan on 7 OCT 2001 not even a month after 9/11 and without doing a full investigation.  

Fast forward to this year.  President Obama took office on Jan 20th and what has he done?  Well, in August he issued orders that we were not fighting a war on terrorism any longer.  


Then of course we had the whole thing with the Commanding General in Iraq.  He had spoken with the President one time and one time only in over three months time.

And how long did it take the President to respond to the Generals request for troops in Afghanistan?  Six months? President Bush had dilly dallied even longer than that during his Administration.

Then of course there was the story telling us that the President has yet to appoint a chief for the TSA or the Customs Dept.  Arguably the two most important agencies needed to protect our country or so they tell us?

It wasn’t until after the Christmas “bombing attempt” that we put those countries that are known to sponsor terrorism on the extra security precautions list.

Speaking of the Christmas “bombing attempt”, why is it that we heard the same exact things after Christmas that we heard after 9/11?  Didn’t they tell us that the government was going to fix that?  Isn’t that exactly what the TSA and DHS were supposed to prevent?  Yet all we heard was the same old song and dance from our government and absolutely no one was held accountable.  

For almost a decade now, our brave men and women have been fighting and dying in a war that our government is not geared up for.  Our government has been steadily taking away our freedom and liberty and taking over more and more of what used to be private industries and telling us it’s for our security.   

The government has, for all practical purposes suspended the Bill of Rights and told us that it is the only way for them to protect us.  But the courts have ruled over and over again that the government has no duty or liability to do so.  

How much longer are we going to let them get away with this?