Prime's Worm Hole : The Piracy of America

Thursday, April 09, 2009

The Piracy of America

After watching this crisis unfold for the past several days? I am wondering just who the pirates are. The Somali's who boarded the Mairsk Alabama? Or the ones roaming the White House and the halls of Congress masquerading as our country's leadership.

First comes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the media (finally) to address the pirating of a US flagged ship with 21 Americans aboard? Why? Because the president of the United States refuses to issue a statement or take questions on the matter from the media after how many days?. (Remember....he was in Turkey and it was the middle of the night when this crisis began, and his response was to call Hillary and his national security council and put them to work on it.) Apparently, they haven't come up with much for him to feed the teleprompter, as he is refusing to talk about it. Which means, no one has told him what to say or what his official policy is yet. You almost have to believe that he is getting very aggravated with his new secretary of state. After all, she swore that she knew what to do when the phone rang at 3 AM.

And now with the eyes of many Americans focused on the Secretary of State in anticipation of some words of consolation? We get a woman that seemingly comes across as if this is some unique occurence in that part of the world. (She apparently missed all the other Somali pirate activity over the past year) And then she proceeds to break into chuckles while addressing the press and the history of America and piracy in the region. Almost as if she is playing some bizarre cartoon strip in her mind of Pirates and Jolly Rogers!

Excuse me, but I for one happen to think this is a serious circumstance and as an American I expect my government to take immediate and proactive measures to protect the citizens of this country regardless of where they are attacked, assaulted or abducted. But now I am sitting here watching the junior statesman from Illinois, masquerading as president and dodging an important crisis (his first), while his secretary of state laughs and giggles while addressing the media on the crisis!

My God!

And then comes Mr. Potato head (John Kerry) with his two cents worth, which amounts to.... he wants to call senate hearings on piracy and hold a policy debate? Because among other things, one of those who was affected by these pirates is from Massachusetts! And he just thinks this is all too surreal! Not to mention, he is using terms like "hot pursuit" involving piracy! These are not simple criminals, they are terrorist. And as is evidenced once again? Those presently occupying the highest offices in Washington don't recognize that.

I ain't making this stuff up!

Kerry calls for pirate hearings as drama continues

"These acts of piracy off of Somalia’s coastline may seem surreal, but they’re all too real and a thorough policy debate is long overdue," said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in a statement. "When Americans, including at least one from Massachusetts, are endangered, you’ve got a complicated and dangerous international situation brewing, and that includes questions about a hot-pursuit policy on Somalia’s coastline."

OK, so this piracy of a ship off the coast of Somalia has been going on days now, and the best that has come from this administration, is that the president doesn't want to talk about it. Hillary thinks its funny and John Kerry believes we need to spend money on senate hearings to find out why they have targeted a citizen from his state.

Can it possibly get more bizarre than this? These are the people in charge of this country right now. How long before the truly dangerous and evil people in the world decide to take advantage of the utter and complete lack of leadership and responsibility now leading this country at all levels.

I say it will be less than a year before we are attacked again.

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.