Eric Holder Insomnia

By Semperpapa

In a recent interview with ABC News, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his latest epiphany regarding the threats that are leveled against our Country.

And he is suffering from insomnia because of them.

During the interview, Holder manifested his preoccupation with what he sees as a new phenomenon: radicalized US citizens willing to commit mass murder against fellow Americans.

According to the statistics Holder cited in the interview, out of 126 people charged with terror-related crimes, 50 of them were Americans citizens.

He also stated that it is a disturbing trend he has seen increasing in the last two years.

All this comes to great surprise to me, considering that the election of his boss was supposed to bring a new era of understanding on the part of radical Islam toward the United States.

The apology tour Obama made in the Middle East, including various bowing to sworn enemies of the United States like the king of Saudi Arabia; making his first speech on Al-Jazera TV; supporting the building of the Ground Zero mosque were all actions that were aimed at appeasing the jihadists of the world and make them love us. So what happened?

Eric Holder himself, together with the DHS Secretary Napolitano, holding terrorism security related secret meeting with representatives of organizations that have been found to be fronts for radical Muslim terror groups, has been active in the prolonged process of appeasement that was started by George W. Bush and happily continued by the current administration. With one major difference: Bush took the fight to the enemy, while Obama has created a powder cake in Iraq with the premature withdrawal of our combat troops (practically abandoning the whole thing which resulted in an increase of al Qaeda influence) and a half hearted effort in Afghanistan with a telephoned timeline for the benefit of our enemy.

Suddenly, Holder is concerned about those who are US citizens and still have reached the level of radicalization which pushes them to plan terrorist attacks against other Americans.

The puzzling aspect of Holder’s epiphany remains his decision to hold Kalidh Sheik Mohamed’s trial in civil court in New York, issue he has yet to rescind. Just anyone in America with a crumb of common sense saw that decision as a perfect way to give our enemy an ideal podium from which spew anti-American rhetoric and inflammatory diatribe. But not Holder.

A curious mention in the interview was Holder’s belief that contributing to the radicalization of American citizens was "The ability to go into your basement, turn on your computer, find a site that has this kind of hatred spewed ... they have an ability to take somebody who is perhaps just interested, perhaps just on the edge, and take them over to the other side," right at the time when the FCC was about to authorize the government a greater policing latitude over the Internet, the first step toward government censoring of free speech.

But maybe I see too much into these things.

What remains an unchangeable truth is that my trust in Mr. Holder has been eroded by two years of abysmal and hypocritical behavior, about which I have written extensively.

It was easy to stand on a self-gratifying pedestal when it came to criticize the previous administration handling of National Security intelligence with accusations of violations of civil liberties. But it is a whole other potato to peal when he is the one that has to answer the tough questions and take the brunt of Obama’s failed policies.

So now Holder is taking the criticism of the fringe left he loves so much, when he is accused, of all things, of entrapment of some of the high profile cases of domestic terrorism.

And yet, at no time during the interview Holder address the true nature of the threat: radical Islam.

It was his office who stated that the massacre at Ft. Hood was not a terrorist act just minutes after the horrific act had taken place. And even as the truth became known that it had been a radicalized Muslim Army psychiatrist to kill 14 innocent people, there was never any retraction or admission of rush to judgment on the part of Holder.

Ultimately, saying that my confidence in the administration to maintain my country and my family safe is at an all time low point would be the understatement of the year. Maybe is incompetence, maybe malicious intent, but the truth is that our people, We the People of the United States can only count on our Armed Forces, our Law Enforcement and ourselves.

Taking the risk to sound like a broken record, our survival depends on our vigilance.

Just my thoughts!