Port Insecurity

Prop1:

In their book the "Wise Men"- Walter Issacson and Evan Thomas characterized Sen. Joseph McCarthy's rise to power in post WWII America as follows-
"McCarthy tapped into an old and deep know nothing vein of American nativism, a virulent blend of FDR haters, Havard haters, Wall Street haters, Washington haters, and just plain haters. Many who did know better kept quiet out of fear" (p493)

Such is the state of modern America as of 9/12/01.

For years now the Bushies, Rummy, the neocons, DHS, Dick Dastardly, conservative talking heads, Fox News and the like have been playing Chicken Little crying "Terror! Terror!" Now the public sees the boogey-man even when the lights are on.

Yes it's anti-Arab sentiment that has the white masses sounding the terror alert over this port thing.

The Coast Guard is going to do their job. And DHS is going to do their job whatever that is. No Dubai will not be "running" the ports. No Arab boots on the ground the precursor to a foreing invasion. God says in the Quran that those who claim righteousness on this earth and claim that heaven is exclusively theirs are actually fearful of judgement day because then all their sins will be made clear. Therefore those [mostly white] people who irrationally fear the new desert Blacks ( i.e. Arabs) do so out of an expected payback for fucking up! For America not being the Pollyanna they know in their hearts was always lie. So ya'll are scared now huh? Ha-ha-haaaaa!

And what's deep is that these politicians know better. They know there is no threat from Dubai owning and operating these ports. At least no more than exists now or that has existed in the past. Nontheless all this fear mongering has left politicians in an election year without political cover if there is an attack, so they'll cry "foul" and demand 45 days to review the deal.

As an aside, if there ever was a move to inspect more than 5% of the cargo coming through the ports there would be an deafening uproar from the big business community. Why? Companies like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Home Depot, Boeing, GE, and the car makers all order goods to reduce storage and minimize shelf life ( e.g. Just-In-Time Shipping). ISo if shipments were delayed so that containers could be searched these computer systems would be thrown off in a real way. Hence, 5% is enough, and will be enough until the bomb drops.

George W. rocking the ill doo-doo numbers!
Break it- you bought it!!!

You go George!