The Terrorists Among Us, Ignored Pro-America Rallies

March 5, 2003

It was 1984.   I was spinning records at an oldies station in Greensboro, North Carolina, working hard at my chosen profession.   Across town Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was getting an education at a local college and planning his career as a murderous, American-hating terrorist.  

Two Middle-eastern men were arrested for using fake IDs to obtain Virginia driver’s licenses (the same licenses obtained by the 9/11 hijackers, by the way) after they were seen taking photographs of Norris Dam in East Tennessee.

Here’s the question?

How in the world do people like this roam freely around this great country of ours while our leaders devise insidious schemes like the Total Information Awareness program designed to trace the buying habits of ordinary, law-abiding citizens?   It doesn’t make sense.

Has it occurred to our government that now would be a good time to suspend visas from Middle Easterners, especially terrorist-sponsoring countries, until we round up and destroy the Al Qaeda network?   I know, that’s profiling.   Heaven forbid we should do something to save lives.   I mean, the feelings of some visitors to this country are much more important than the lives of our citizens.   Why, we’d much rather see another big-city skyscraper come tumbling down than offend some foreigner.   Wouldn’t we?

You think I’m oversimplifying this but that’s what it boils down to.   I don’t know if you noticed but we’re at war.   War means taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of our citizens.   War means taking suspicious second glances at those who might be prone to support our enemies.   War means securing our borders, something we did in World War II but refuse to do now.  

PC appeasers protest any move to deport these people while demonstrating against our own country over a war to liberate the people of Iraq from a murderous madman and remove the threat of nuclear annihilation from the region.   TV cameras lap up every morsel of these anti-American spectacles, which have been proven to be organized by the American communist party with ties to terrorism.

In the meantime, pro-America rallies are staged across our great nation while the mass media virtually ignore them or attempt to de-emphasize their significance.   I know too well.   I hosted just such a rally at Centennial Park in Nashville.   Between 3,000 and 4,000 people came and paid tribute to our president and our military.   The local Nashville paper barely batted an eye, devoting about two lines to the event and claiming that several hundred, instead of the actual several thousand, attended.   When a bunch of peaceniks staged a Greek tragedy (written as a Greek comedy) in the same park, this same paper favored them with an entire article about the event, which drew a whopping 50 people, most just bag lunchers who happened to be in the park anyway.

Anti-war demonstration after anti-war demonstration is held in this area, each outdoing the other in embarrassing lack of attendance, yet the news media fall all over each other to cover them.   We’re not alone.   This is a national phenomenon.   Pro-America rallies are being held throughout the country with limited coverage by local and national news outlets.

It’s time we ask these media outlets where they stand.   I’m not asking them to wave the flag.   I just want a fair accounting of events as they’re happening and a reasonable judgment of importance attached to them.   Four thousand people standing for an hour or more in the park for a rally is news.   A handful of amateur thespians reading a Greek comedy is not.   Let’s keep things in perspective, shall we?