MYRICK CONNECTS JIHADIST DOTS

HOW SHOULD I PUT IT? Extra! Extra! Read all about it! There is excellent news seeping up from the groundswell! Intelligent life has been found once again in that self-serving prestige-copping body of air balloons called Congress!

The very fat lady must be singing somewhere, unfortunately, not with a bang but a whimper. But seriously, there is a voice rising up from the wilderness at the US Capitol, at last, on a very important issue vital to our national security. In his short but welcomed article Jihadist War May be Ramping-Up Against America’s Homeland, W. Thomas Smith, Jr. brings to light the work Congresswoman Sue Myrick has been accomplishing:

In the wake of several recent arrests of Jihadists across North America as well as the Obama administration’s insistence on renaming the very real global war on terror as simply a “transnational challenge,” U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R.-NC) is connecting the dots in a commonsensical show-don’t-tell approach to fact: Why this asymmetrical war by the Jihadists against us is every bit a full-blown war and not some politically diluted “challenge.”

According to Myrick, though there may be no current evidence materially connecting any of the recently revealed terror plots, FBI investigative documents and press releases, clearly indicate a coordinated effort by the enemy based on a single objective.

“These plots are all tied together by one thing: a global ideology that is self-identified by its believers as jihadist, or ‘jihadiyya,’” says Myrick in a published statement, last week. “It is hard to ignore this fact when in these cases below several of these men very clearly, and very directly, state that they followed this ideology (jihad), and wanted to kill.”

Myrick adds, “I find this connection disturbing seeing as these plots come on the heels of the Administration's efforts to rename ‘jihadists’ – which is what they [the terrorists] call themselves – ‘violent extremists.’”

Rep. Myrick, who serves on the serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Intelligence community, including intelligence-related activities of the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, other agencies of the Department of Defense, and the Departments of State, Justice, and Treasury), is the founder of the 120-member Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus.

What is sad about the Myrick stance is that she is practically alone in trying to turn the tide against the willful blindness of our nation's leadership in Congress and at the highest levels of government with regard to this threat.