"Terrorists Among Us" - My Prosperspective

(Fargo, ND - USA)

The past month I have found an abundance of government & intellegence information on the internet that gave me a flashback to a conversation with "Local Prophet" blogger and nationally distributed author Carl Aabye who wrote the book Terrorists Among Us. (Carl will correct me if this wrong) I read his book, and have had some powerhouse discussions about the access to intellegence information through the internet. I'll be honest folks... It's out there! and it's enough to be very scary. When you can look at America's stratigic bases, landmarks, and public places and count the cars, see the type of aircraft, and even find abandoned and current missle silos, it's enough to send chills through any red blooded american's skin to the bones.

The fact that the freedom of information act allows it to be in the wild, it is utterly amazing. Personally, as a registered and trained NWS storm spotter these resources are invaluable to determine location, direction and distance from here to there whatever it is. Sure I use GPS, but with the military able to jam them now they occasionally will be off when layed over a pc based map.

I also have chased Gas (helium/hydrogen) racing balloons cross-country... the maping of transponders / locators is just as key to positioning and following airborne competitions as they fly. Still, without the freedom of information act, I don't believe this would be as easy as it is today.

My personal opinion as a prior service soldier in our US Army, is that the US Government should take a hard and much closer look at what is out there and instead of the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and others sitting on it's proverbial ass. They should take a close and hard look at the Internet issues, Hate crime and other issues on the I-net. Encourage your Congressmembers and Senators to step up and not to forget why we are in Iraq, Afghanastan, & other place in the world. I have to think they are afraid that President Bush will veto any legislation introduced.

I urge you to vote - and think hard about the issues of the last 8 years which will take a decade to fix.

I really would like to hear your comments...