The PAC Perspective by Ted Flint
Of all the unanswered questions regarding the pair of New Year’s Day attacks on America one thing is certain: the white Ford pick-up truck that Shamsud-Din Jabbar used to plow into a crowd full of people in Louisiana’s French Quarter, had crossed America’s southern border on November 16. Still, progressive politicians maintain our borders are secure and the nation is not at risk. Last Wednesday’s events put to rest those claims. Americans are still at risk on their own soil.
In Las Vegas, Matthew Livelsberger detonated a rented Tesla cyber truck killing numerous passersby and himself. Initially, investigators thought there could be a possible link between the two attacks: Both men served in the military, were stationed at the same base, both rented their trucks from the Turo app and both were terrorists. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell immediately labelled the Bourbon Street attacks as an act of terrorism; the FBI was reluctant to do the same.
The Las Vegas attacker may have been triggered by a recent break-up with his wife. According to the NY Post, Livelsberger left his Colorado home on December 26, after his wife confronted him about his infidelity. It was then he began his road trip to the Trump Hotel behind the wheel of a Elon-Musk produced electric vehicle. The political implications are obvious.
Jabbar’s case is altogether different. The FBI uncovered several social media posts in which Jabbar pledged allegiance to ISIS, indicating a calculated plot, not a random act of violence. Maybe the ISIS flag that turned up at the murder scene was enough for the FBI to finally designate the attack as an act of terrorism. As we’ve seen since Obama’s time in office, law enforcement is reluctant to label any attack as terrorism if radical Islamists are involved. Instead, the FBI is laser-focused on angry parents at school board meetings and Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass, deeming these groups domestic threats.
Retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro recently told Fox News, “the further we get from 9/11, the closer we get to 9/10.” The primary responsibility of government is to protect lives and property, not to redistribute wealth, not to provide healthcare coverage to every person who illegally crosses our border or to provide for our old age. It is to protect our rights, chiefly the right to life upon which all other rights rest. Clearly, this regime is failing in that responsibility. January 20th cannot come soon enough.
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