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| Janet Napolitano: Myth Buster |
| 2009-04-24 |
| One angry Canadian... Janet Napolitano has some strange ideas about the Canadian border. She describes herself as a “myth buster”, which is really unfortunate, because Janet Napolitano constructs a new myth about the Canadian border every time she opens her uninformed Homeland Security mouth. When it comes to mythologies, Janet Napolitano is a One-woman Greek play – a myth a minute. It's nearly 8 years since the crash of the twin towers, and she still doesn't know - still - that all of the hijackers that brought tragedy that day - came into the USA - through their own customs and immigration ---- not one came down through the great forests of Toronto or over the tundra of Montreal, not one of them got access to the US via what Ms Napolitano thinks of as "borderless" Canada. Must it be said to Ms Napolitano yet again? The September 11 hijackers did not enter via Canada. Sauda Arabia is not the 11th province. Mohammed Atta did not fly into New York that terrible day from Prince Edward Island. The 9-11 hijackers did not go to “flight school” in Buttonville. Canada was not, in whole or in part, the “holding room” of the 9-11 terrorists. What is Barack Obama doing appointing someone to head Homeland Security, who, eight years after the attacks, does not even now know where the hijackers came from and how they got into their country? Here, it’s not her ignorance about Canada which should be troubling. It’s her ignorance of the most publicized event in modern American history. How can anyone be head of Homeland Security and not know the history of the 19 men who killed nearly 3,000 Americans? Ms Napolitano acknowledges there are some “slight” differences between the U.S.-Canada border, and the U.S.-Mexico border. To wit: "Yes, Canada is not Mexico, it doesn't have a drug war going on, it didn't have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year." To which she might have added, neither have 11 million or so “undocumented immigrants” flowed from Canada to the U.S.. Nonetheless, with this trivial differences in mind, she argues, if they're going to tighten the Mexican border, they must "fix" the Canadian one, too. Ah yes, if the bulb goes out in the kitchen, change the one in the garage. And Pearl Harbour was executed by the Romanian navy. I’ve sometimes felt we Canadians are too hard on the Americans. We make fun of them for knowing so little of us. That we’re all igloos and Nelson Eddy yodeling-Mounties. Then along comes someone like Janet Napolitano, a former governor, now a major player at the highest levels of the most powerful government in the world, a one-woman storehouse of misconceptions, pseudo-facts, stale rumours and flat-out ignorance. She says now she’s been misunderstood. She knows the hijackers didn’t come over the border. I take very little comfort from that. There’s probably more anger in Janet Napolitano now about being corrected than grief about being so wrong. That does not spell a happy time for traffic and business over the Canada - U.S. border. If the man who promised Hope and Change, wants to give Canadians some Hope, he’ll Change the head of Homeland Security. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #3 It depends on the PTA, Parabellum. The one I used to belong to, the VP one year had managed a major hospital chain in Los Angeles, and the next was a former district prosecutor, and the one after that a retired director of human resources. The science lab was run by several engineers, the computer upgrade committee by a regional manager for 3Com, and the nature trail by a city planner. I was decidedly underqualified compared to the rest -- much like here, in fact. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-04-24 23:09 |
| #2 One angry Canadian... And rightfully so! She's a moron, qualified for a PTA vice presidency at best. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-04-24 19:22 |
| #1 ".. a myth a minute" Didn't realize Rex has a lisp..... |
| Posted by: Glolush Speaking for Boskone9752 2009-04-24 16:21 |