PaulMcguire
Security forces from captured ISIS operatives revealed that ISIS
and other jihadist groups could activate terror cells in the U.S.
Egypt
has intelligence that ISIS is planning a worldwide offensive that will
strike deep into the heart of America. According to an article in
WorldNetDaily by Aaron Klein entitled “ISIS PLANNING ATTACKS ON U.S.
SOIL,” information collected by Egyptian security forces from captured
ISIS operatives revealed that ISIS and other jihadist groups could
activate terror cells in the U.S.
In
2005 I conducted lengthy interviews with Israeli General Shimon Erem
for my book Are You Ready? At that time General Erem warned that Al
Qaeda and other militant Islamic groups were gathering in what he termed
“The Dangerous Triangle,” which consisted of Argentina, Paraguay, and
Brazil. The General explained that these terrorist groups were
generating billions of dollars annually by money laundering, arms sales,
drugs, counterfeiting, sales of false documents, sex trafficking, and
piracy.
As
I document in the book, General Erem stated that the Dangerous Triangle
was a base of operations that would spread terrorism across South
America and move terrorists through the southern border of the United
States. Al Qaeda has operatives and training camps in the Dangerous
Triangle and it is considered a source of funding for terrorist groups
like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Jihad. Some of these groups are
also funded by Iran.
Six
million Muslims live in South America and are active in setting up
training camps and winning recruits in places like Suriname, Guyana,
Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. In addition,
Cuba has cooperative agreements with Syria, Libya and Iran. Terrorists
continually move up through South America into Mexico, where they then
cross into the United States with relative ease. General Erem explained
this in 2005. A decade later we still have open borders, and now ISIS
maintains training camps in Juarez, Mexico.
On
September 1, 2004 Russia experienced horrific terrorist attacks in the
city of Beslan, where 300 people were massacred and 186 of them were
young children. The heavily armed and masked terrorists forced 1,100
hostages into the school gymnasium where they placed explosive devices
in the gym in front of the children. Two of the terrorists were female
and they were wearing suicide bomb belts. The attackers were filming
everything that was happening, as they wanted documentation of the mass
slaughter that was about to happen for propaganda purposes. Hours later
the Russian Air Force delivered Russian Special forces troops into the
area for what would become a three-day siege. Although many of the
hostages were freed, there were black body bags everywhere.
According
to the FBI and other sources there are ISIS cells currently operating
in the United States. Public schools, Christian and Jewish schools, and
other private schools are prime targets. In addition shopping malls,
crowded streets, sports stadiums, movie complexes, and any place where
there are large numbers of people are potential targets.
The
potential of a terrorist attack or multiple terrorist attacks in the
Americas remains high. This represents a serious challenge for the
American people and the unique Constitutional freedoms we presently
enjoy. On the one hand we have a very real threat, which demands
preparedness and a military-like response. As the danger increases
surveillance increases, along with a loss of freedoms. Major terrorist
attacks could lead to martial law and a suspension of the Constitution.
There
is no way to soft peddle the fact that martial law basically means a
temporary military dictatorship. But what guarantee is there that our
present form of government will be restored after the crisis? As the
pressures in our society increase we also see the increased
militarization of the police. However, what Constitutional safeguards
are in place to protect the rights of law abiding American citizens? It
seems both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have no real
will to protect those liberties.
Almost
daily we see images of police brutality on our television screens. No
person in his right mind is not deeply troubled by those images. Will
all of this lead to a Federal intervention into local, city, and state
police departments and the consolidation of all local police into one
nationalized police force? History shows us the result of those kinds of
actions.
America
is becoming a very dangerous place, for the potential of ISIS or other
terrorist group attacks is very real. However, how America responds to
these threats puts us on a very slippery slope. The same mechanisms
designed to protect us can easily become the mechanisms to enslave us,
if they are not carefully guarded. Ideally, it is our elected
representatives who are responsible to protect us. But the reality is
that almost none of our elected officials are doing anything to protect
us. The failure of our elected officials to protect the American way of
life is a far greater threat than ISIS because it leaves us vulnerable
to atrocities far beyond the scope of what happened in Beslan, Russia.
It
was our own government, after all, that allowed the terrorists who
bombed the World Trade Center the first time to enter our country. Our
officials responded to the bombing by allowing even more militant
Muslims to come here, despite the bloody record of Islam. We have
allowed tens of thousands more militant Muslims from states known to
support terror; the alleged Boston Marathon bombers were let in despite
our being warned about them by the Russian government. Thousands of
Muslim Syrian “refugees” are being allowed to enter our country. Yet,
despite the persecution and murder of Christians in the Middle East,
Christian “refugees” are not being allowed into America. A number of
prominent Christian leaders in America have gone out of their way to
support Muslim groups. But, there is a conspicuous silence from these
same Christian leaders about the large number of Christians that are
being persecuted, raped and slaughtered by militant Muslims in the
Middle East.
It
needs to be repeated that our terrorist enemies can win on two entirely
different fronts. They can win by inflicting severe damage on our
nation, people, and economy by horrific terrorist attacks. But they can
also win by radically transforming America into a totalitarian state
that bears no resemblance to what it once was. Both of these strategies
kill America and the American dream, which they hate so much. It is the
very existence of America as an imperfect, but shining light to the
world that is the most dangerous threat to the darkness which ISIS
represents.
That
light, which still shines from America, is a far greater threat to
terrorists and totalitarian regimes than troops, bombs and armies could
ever be. But if our enemies are successful in extinguishing that light
through the use of fear, than they will have won a far greater victory
than any terrorist attack could achieve. I deal with this issue in
detail in my new book, Mass Awakening.
