Oval Office Speeches Will not Defeat Jihadist Terrorism in America or Anywhere

Some common sense about terrorism and islamist jihadist terrorists : (1) Both exist in America. To argue that the US is somehow secure displays an inability or unwillingness to actually see and confront the world we live in. It would help enormously if President Obama would simply use the word "islamist" or "jihadist" because it would show that he is operating in the real world, and it would begin to build the political consensus needed to create a strategy to defeat islamist terrorism in the Middle East and at home. It would also empower US intelligence groups, giving them a voice in rooting out domestic terrorism instead of feeling, as many do now, that they are ignored by the President. (2) Self-radicalization cannot occur in a vacuum. Website use and/or discussions in infected groups of family or "friends" play a role. Effective surveillance of these linking points must include the use of metadata because that is the key to connecting the points, but surveillance must also include the immobilization of those who are encouraging radicalization or seeking it. In France, such people are put under house arrest, and there is a serious proposal to cancel the French passports of radicalized dual-passport holders so that they can be deported. The US needs to have the same serious discussion about arrest and deportation - uncluttered by misplaced notions about civil rights or appeals to America's openness to normal immigrants and minorities - if it ever hopes to root out its homegrown jihadist terrorism threat. (3) Surveilling and closing mosques where radical Islam is preached or taught - and the arrest and deportation of radical imams - should be part of the effort to eliminate the threat of US domestic jihadist terrorism. It is not a misuse of the First Amendment right to religious freedom to stop the cynical use of America's freedom of religion to wage a war of jihadist terrorism against America and its democratic Judeo-Christian institutions. (4) Burkas and other whole-face veils in public places and at workplaces should be made illegal and the law enforced. This would at least make it possible to link suspicious behavior to an individual, not to a non-identifiable black veil. (5) The constitutional right to bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment is now attacked as a solution to domestic jihadist terrorist attacks. It that were true, there would never be a terrorist attack in Europe where private gun ownership is practically non-existent. But the Paris attack with AK-47s led to search and seizure sweeps by French security forces in which everything from handguns to grenades to rocket launchers have been found and confiscated. Illegal underground weapons markets exist in Europe and everywhere. An illegal arms dealer was arrested in Germany last week; he had been in contact with the Paris terrorists. To confiscate or outlaw Second Amendment gun ownership will do nothing to halt these underground weapons markets or prevent the use of guns by jihadist terrorists in the US. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the mainstream media and Democrat Party is engaged in a massive, organized effort to smear and belittle Donald Trump, Republicans and Congress because they see terrorism for what it is - an attack on the American constitutional republic. They try to equate the GOP, as reflected in Trump because he leads in 2016 polls by wide margins, with a xenophobic know-nothing bunch of morons who don't understand 21st century America. But it is the GOP that does understand. The Republican Party and all conservatives are fighting to save America from jihadist terrorism determined to turn it into a religious caliphate with no rule of law or freedom for Christians, Jews and all "apostates." Call it by its rightful name -- islamic jihadist terrorism. Everything depends on defeating it. Do not be fooled. Stand up against terrorism - both jihadist and political. In 2016, we can take back t he Republic. Be counted with the patriots.