Intelligence, Yes--Smarts, No

Now that our US Attorney General, who has proven himself worthy of the "nuclear option" while we wait for Roberts and Alito to do so (thanks, all you Dems), has informed the press that their freedom is gone (to which they haven't said anything, which says, of course, "thank you, sir, may I have another?"), there can be no more illusion what Georgi Bushnev and his Politburo and Pravda-ites intend for this nation. It's time to stop discussing things "rationally," it's time to stop splitting hairs and issuing tomes documenting their abuses, as valuable as they are for future historians. Fatigue sets in on the audience. It's time to get on message and simply repeat, repeat, repeat every time Bushnev and his buddies open their mouths.

The message? 9/11 could have and should have been stopped. With the existing system we had without any endangerment of our freedom, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, 9/11 could have and should have been stopped. That's it and that's all. No more citing statutes or clauses. No more debating the merits and demerits of making grannies take off their shoes at the airport. Whenever Georgi and his neo-KGB (hello, there, NSA e-mail reader/website monitor), neo-Izvestia types open their mouths about anything even remotely related to "security" or "terrorism" or "freedom" or their related non sequiturs, don't even consider a rebuttal. Just chant, over and over--"9/11 could have and should have been stopped, 9/11 could have and should have been stopped, 9/11 could have and should have been stopped . . . ."

One talking point, who could imagine?!! For once, a bumper sticker that encapsulates rather than emasculates reality. Let's put it on the t-shirts and coffee cups. Sing it loud and sing it proud. Everything that has come after, everything we love to scream about and protest and assert our righteousness against, everything that has put the American Legacy at such dangerous risk, all of it can be seen for what it is by even the dullest if we just get the point across. We had all the intelligence we needed to stop the attacks without touching one hair on the Constitution and without installing, not an imperial presidency, but a General Secretary, Politburo, and Pravda. We had the intelligence to stop the attacks, we just didn't have the smarts. That could have been fixed without moving toward the Soviet Union, fixed elections and all. It's not too late, if those on our side will develop the smarts to turn it around, not a sure prospect right now (aka Hillary and the DLC). Like Bushnev's crew, we now have all the intelligence we need. Will we interpret it wisely and react accordingly? Remember the first thing we have to do.

"9/11 could have and should have been stopped, 9/11 could have and should have been stopped, 9/11 could have and should have been stopped . . . ."