Blame Canada
Six years after Michael Brown was ushered into high ranks by G.W.Bush, Janet Napolitano is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Appointed by Barack Obama, she’s off to a smashing start.
Her main job is keeping the terrorists out from USA, but nearly a hundred days into her job she still doesn’t know where and how terrorists enter America. In her CBC interview, she’s clearly under the misimpression that at least some of the 9/11 hijackers entered the US from Canada. In turn, Napolitano is busy building up a border between the northern and southern part of the continent, spending pallets of money in all the wrong places. And, like with a bad prescription, something real is going untreated or is at best benefiting from a placebo effect – a very expensive placebo that can cause “dizziness, vomiting and edginess towards minority ethnic groups few know anything about, but most have a definite opinion on.”
But really, those of us who made it this far have learned to survive on placebo. Or even better, just not going to the doctor at all. Misdiagnosis, after misdiagnosis, we had to adjust or die trying.
Getting back to Napolitano, I’m not fully convinced that the ignorance she’s demonstrated is genuine. Her linking of Canada to 9/11 is bound to stick in the minds of many, securing the resources to build up the US / Canada border for any number of ulterior and less popular motives. All this with the added benefit of fear mongering and shock therapy that tends to lead every two legged sheep to ask “how high” when told to jump in the name of security.
I must admit that my first thought upon hearing this on the news was that it was just for show – that with the issue of illegal immigrants and the raging drug war in Mexico, the US wants to “strengthen” its border with its southern neighbour – and that all this talk of Canada was simply a means of avoiding being seen as singling out their southern border. But maybe I just didn’t want to believe that the very person in charge of this sort of issue is so misinformed. (See how I did that there? I managed to be both cynical and idealistic at the same time!)
But no, it appears that many Americans still think that their 2001 tragedy started in Canada – including John McCain, who recently told Fox News (fair and balanced!) that Ms. Napolitano was “right” all along. Sigh.