We Go There, They Come Here

Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire-Hathaway, owns BNSF (Burlington Northern Sante Fe railway). Five years ago, BNSF started Citizens for Rail Security, and it has almost 10,000 members. In the name of preventing terror incidents, they are primed to report “suspicious” behavior. That would be like the man on the BART system who was talking loudly about weapons of mass destruction before the police took him away. An oppressive police-state replete with spying, informants, accusations, distrust, visible weaponry, checkpoints, searches, arrests, and scanning devices is spreading poison throughout a land that once was carefree to a normal extent.

This won’t go away until the U.S. stops its significant intrusions in the politics, economies, and military affairs of other nations, as in the cases of Palestine and Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, and others.

We go there, and they come here. An example is Hezbollah south of the border. As far back as 2007, there are reports of Hezbollah in South America. In the last year or two, reports of Hezbollah in Mexico have surfaced. (The timing of this latest report appears to be a CIA-type manipulation of information.)

We go there, and they come here. That’s the root excuse for a U.S. police state. That cause is going unaddressed by the U.S. government. Its ambitions are just the opposite, which means it doesn’t care about a peaceful and carefree America. It’s short-sighted to think that they come here out of the blue or for no reason or because they suddenly hate us or because they hate freedom or because they are Muslims. They come here because we have gone there. This is the blowback, that and a self-imposed police state. Childish joy over the death of one man murdered in Pakistan doesn’t cut it. It’s not a solution. It doesn’t address the root, which is we go there, they come here.

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8:24 am on May 8, 2011