By Alan Burkhart

Score another victory for Radical Islam and their partners at the ACLU. And chalk up another loss for American citizens. We’ve been rendered blind and deaf in a time when we desperately need to be vigilant. The recent plot uncovered by British MI5 agents to blow up commercial airliners is proof of the need for operations like the NSA Foreign Surveillance Program. And yet the left continues to tie the hands of those who are trying to lead the fight against international terrorism.

US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has ruled that the NSA’s Foreign Surveillance Program is unconstitutional. I find it cruelly ironic that the judge who struck the latest blow for radical Islam is an appointee of Jimmy Carter, who has been one of their greatest facilitators over the years. Judge Taylor also ordered that the program be suspended during appeals to be filed by the Justice Department, but that at least has been defeated. The program will continue through September Seventh, at which time there will be a hearing to allow the government to request a lengthier stay.

Osama bin Laden must be laughing himself silly right about now. And all the while he’s planning his next attack, which he recently promised would be quite   impressive. By now he doubtlessly realizes that his greatest allies aren’t in Saudi Arabia or Iran, but right here in the USA.

The Mainstream Media has long mischaracterized the NSA program, referring to it as a “Domestic Spying Program” and an “Eavesdropping Program.” It is neither of these. All the program does is track phone numbers during international calls. If an international call is made and involves a number suspected of being used by a terrorist operative here or abroad, then further action is taken. Why would anyone have a problem with that? Big Brother isn’t listening to your conversations with Aunt Mable. They don’t care about how you order pizza. The Federal Government is trying its level best to prevent another 911-style attack on our soil, and yet the ACLU and other leftist groups seem almost eager for it to happen. And when it does, they’ll blame the Bush Administration for that, too.

Judge Taylor’s decision isn’t about protecting our constitutional rights. It’s about putting the Left back in power. The Left doesn’t care if another airliner smashes into another hi-rise. What they care about is getting back to the business of creating a socialist utopia in the USA. If that means making life easier for a pack of religious fanatics, so be it. Rank and file citizens killed in another attack would be considered nothing more than collateral damage. If you doubt me on this one, just take an unbiased look at what they’ve done over the last few years. Judge them on what they do, not what they say.

Perhaps when the next attack occurs, and thousands of innocent people perish, Americans will finally wake up to the fact that we’re at war. Not just in Iraq or Afghanistan, but with a global network of zealots who won’t stop until we either eradicate them from the planet, or they destroy Western Culture and replace it with Islamic rule. It really is just that simple. It’s them or us.

Pick one.

Related Reading:

Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6106772.html?tag=nl.e589

Text of Judge Taylor’s ruling (PDF format)

http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/eGov/taylorpdf/06%2010204.pdf

NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/17/domesticspying.lawsuit.ap/index.html

Alan Burkhart is a freelance writer, cross-country trucker, and proud citizen of the reddest of the Red States - Mississippi. You can reach him by visiting his website: www.alanburkhart.blogspot.com or by e-mail at alan@alanburkhart.com.