The enemy within

Dear Editor,

President Barack Obama again uses tragedy to advance his infamous anti-American agenda. With American blood barely dry on the walls and floors of San Bernardino's Inland Regional Center, and in the midst of the growing threat of Islamic terrorism on our soil, Obama's response is to further dispossess Americans of our unalienable right to self-defense. Soon after his initial and predictable call for increased gun restrictions, the press revealed the identities of the individuals responsible for the California shootings, in which 14 Americans were murdered and 21 wounded: the two attackers were devout Muslims, connected with ISIS. Despite the FBI's conclusion that this was a terrorist act, and although he cannot yet bring himself to use the phrase "Islamic terrorism," Obama's standard course of action is to abuse executive power so to further punish lawful gun owners -- but he assures us this will defeat the goals of Allah's perpetually angry, anti-social misfits.

The FBI is presently conducting 900 investigations into possible ISIS terror cells within the U.S. However, as if to erase all doubt of where his allegiance lies, and despite the objections of 35 governors, President Obama demands States accept alleged Syrian nationals or else face federal retaliation. The majority of these "refugees" (65%) are Muslim men of fighting age, with hardly a woman, child, or elder numbered among them. The government assures us that this influx of potential enemy combatants will be properly vetted -- but how do you vet someone who has yet to commit a crime or associate with criminals?

Against the expressed will of the States, President Obama has vowed to import 200,000 Muslims from known sources of Islamic terrorism. Prior to this decree, he has repeatedly ignored or abrogated federal immigration statutes, unrelentingly subverted the Constitution, and routinely used executive orders to usurp Congress. Not for protecting the citizenry in time of war does he affect these actions, but rather so to change the American demographic and make the United States a nation of dependents -- for such a populace is easier to control.

In context of these developments, we must soberly ponder the relevance of the following quote:

"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." - Barack Hussein Obama, 'The Audacity of Hope' [pg. 261]

Syed Farook, a U.S. citizen, traveled to Saudi Arabia to marry Tashfeen Malik -- a Pakistani national who entered the U.S. on a 90-day fiancée' visa. She was cleared by the FBI and DHS, and then issued a Green Card. After the shooting began, Malik went on Facebook and pledged loyalty to the emir of ISIS. These individuals were parents to a 6-month old daughter. They were neither impoverished nor disadvantaged. They lived in an upscale American neighborhood. The motivating force to murder was their "religion of peace." The problem is not citizenship, nor poverty -- nor climate change. The problem is Islam. Let's be clear: Islam is not a religion. Islam is a militant, expansionist, totalitarian political ideology, covering itself beneath a veneer of religion, so as to conquer and subjugate the world through a process of deception (Taqiyya) and terror (Jihad).

By his actions, President Obama appears not just sympathetic to Muslims, but a willful enabler of Taqiyya and Jihad. If he had not these misguided allegiances, and rather upheld his oath to the U.S. Constitution, then San Bernardino might not now be numbered among those places unfortunate to know the true face of Islam.

Regrettably, we have a president who acts to divide the American people and foment racial insurrection; who deprives law enforcement of the tools necessary to perform their prescribed duties, while slandering and libeling its officers, causing the "thin blue line" to fall into disrepute, and even jeopardizing the lives of its members. We have a president who orders our Border Patrol and ICE agents to stand down, while illegal aliens -- whose number likely include Islamic terrorists -- continue to violate our borders. We have a president who subverts the Armed Forces, purging their branches of competent morally upright leaders, while filling their ranks with unfit individuals, corrupt with the vice of sodomy. This man -- who claims the Constitution "basically flawed," and desires to "fundamentally transform" America -- wastes no opportunity to remove our ability to resist tyranny. Threatening as the Islamic State may be, its soldiers are nothing when compared to the damage done through the machinations of one traitor -- for such is the peril we now face from the enemy within.

Bruce C. Desautels

Stratton, Nebraska