That's Right Great Lakes Residents, 9/11 Never Happened

Perhaps a better headline for this article is "Colloquial Idiots Don't Believe I Could Happen Here." Man the anti-military Liberals just completely amaze me sometimes. These same idiots (I can't really think of a more appropriate word for them) were probable the first to scream at the Bush administration for "not doing enough" to protect our nation. We're not "checking enough shipping containers," "the Iraq War has made us less safe," etc. Too bad 9/11 didn't happen to the Sears Tower, they might be more amenable to the Coast Guards efforts then. This from the Washington Post:

Great Lakes Area Tries To Dodge A Bullet
Guard Urged to Drop Target-Practice Plan

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 10, 2006; Page A01

CHICAGO -- U.S. Coast Guard vessels staging machine-gun target practice in the peaceable Great Lakes? George Heartwell does not like the idea, not one little bit. He questions the need, the risk and the appearance.

"I think our Canadian friends see us as trigger-happy cowboys," said Heartwell, mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich. "There simply have to be other ways and better ways."

In the name of defending the United States against terrorists, the Coast Guard proposes live-fire zones in all five Great Lakes, where gunners could perfect their skills on M-240B machine guns to be mounted on Lakes vessels. The weapons can fire hundreds of 7.62mm rounds a minute and send lead 2.3 miles downrange.

The Coast Guard, at a series of public hearings this fall, defended the 34 proposed zones as essential to its mission. Each zone, located at least five miles offshore, would be used perhaps two or three times a year for a few hours. Civilian boaters would be warned to stay away.

First the distortion, the liklihood of a small vessel mounted M-240B sending "lead 2.3 miles downrange" is very small unless they are firing at geese. Second, I don't give a rat's a$$ what our so called Canadian friends to the north think about us. They are about as much of a friend to America as the French. Actually I think it would be a good thing for them to think of us as "trigger-happy cowboys," I think of them as "Marx loving socialists."

Should the unthinkable happen and some sort of small armed Muslim terrorist team successfully scoot across those same lakes, these whiners will be the first to want to point fingers at the Coast Guard or the President or anyone else but themselves for what happens.

I sometimes think it really is too bad we can't just divide this country in two, half for Liberal idiots to build their Utopian disaster, and the other half for those of us who take our freedom, liberty, and security seriously.

Yeah, yeah, I know. 9/11 was an inside job, it never happened, we are the bad guys and the world is right to fear us. The Muslims waging the Global Islamic Jihad just want to be friends, but big ole mean America just won't let them. You people make me sick!

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