The “biggest” combatant on the War on Terror (so to speak) is the United States. One would think then that they are in constant danger and the massive new legal apparatus put in place after the WTC attacks would be rounding up terrorists by the dozens… well; not so much. To borrow a bit from George Carlin:
There are no bombs, the whole thing is fucking pointless.
I’m not disputing that there are some people out there who do in fact both want and intend to attack the United States, but if there were as many inside the U.S. as rhetoric suggests, one would think that the federales would pick one up every now and then, if only by accident… only it has never happened. Since 9/11 there’s been one arrest made in the United States that I can think of that turned out to be directly related to a terrorist attack (not counting the infamous shoe-bomber who obviously had more anger than brains), Jose Padilla, and as it turns out the guy was a solo nutjob who was long on ideas and short on resources and practicality. Think I’m crazy? Why are Americans living in fear of an enemy that has been unable to penetrate America in a meaningful way. You’re more likely to be killed my airborne pollutants than you are a terrorist attack, and the EPA’s funding is miniscule in comparison to the various intelligence agencies in the United States.
Think that maybe the government is just doing such a great job catching “the terrorists” that we don’t even appreciate their efforts?
Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday…
“We do not agree that law enforcement efforts such as these should be counted as anti-terrorism,” the audit concluded. Even if those cases were not taken into account, the audit said, the U.S. attorneys’ office had overstated statistics in all other categories it reported.
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