Blendables

CIA Chief, Mike McConnell, told Congress yesterday that Al Qaeda had improved its ability to recruit, train and position operatives capable of carrying out attacks inside the United States, producing militants, including new Western recruits, capable of blending into American society and attacking domestic targets.

Quiz: What is the key word in this news? (a) ability (b) attacks (c) blending (d) domestic?

Most people, including most congressoids, will doubtless choose a, b and c: ability, attack, us. Omygod... we need more security and fast!!

The true key word, of course, is “blending”. For six years now the US Government has been nabbing and deep-storing a whole bunch of them terrorist rag-heads -- brownish people that worship that heathen allah-fellow -- not good Jews and gentiles, like us.

It really made no difference that that Mohammad fellow may have been an English citizen, or that what’s his name Ali Ah-whatever was a Canadian or that Padilla was a US subject -- all that was just a matter of probably falsely obtained passports. The guts of the matter is that they were “them” or at least “those”.

Of course, some of us might have worried that they were being tortured or denied the basic protections of minimal due process; but when all was said and done, our concern was basically a sort of legal-charity for one of them rag-heads. Certainly, nothing we had to worry about that cut too close to our own bones.

Now comes Intelligence Chief McConnel to tell us that the big Al “Q” has produced blendable western attack agents. In other words, people that look just like you and me. And not just look, but have names like Jones, Sorensen and Schmidt. Why, maybe even names like Feingold, O’Connell and Scalia. Blendables.

What this means is that the proverbial “potential terrorist” (for those who haven’t figured it out yet, cop-thug speak for someone who MIGHT in the realm of everything possible be a terrorist) includes people just like you and me. Which mean that in the eyes of our All Seeing All Beneficent State Guardian, people just like you and me are indistinguishable from “potential terrorists”.

Got it?

Welcome to Baghdad folks.

©Barfo, 2008