Dichotomy of Treatment

Over the past week we have seen two very different postures of the current administration and how they deal with people.

Last Sunday night, we saw the conclusion of the hostage situation with freighter off of Somalia.

According to an email account I received and a couple other blogs that I read (all of which were second and third hand accounts – so fairly close to what happened), the commander of the Bainbridge asked for permission to take out the pirates at least twice and was denied. The President wanted a “peaceful” solution.

The commander took his own initiative during a request for “proof of life” with the pirates. When Captain Phillips was brought out, the Navy’s plan was put into action and he was safely rescued.

At the Summit of the America’s, we see Obama embrace dictator Hugo Chavez. We also hear about re-opening relations with the Castro brothers in Cuba. Both of these countries do not allow the freedoms we enjoy. They have suppressed their people through intimidation, imprisonment, and violence.

We then have Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano allowing the release of a paper that defines potential threats to our national security as coming from conservatives, NRA members, and military personnel returning home from overseas. The paper classified military personnel as potentially turning into Timothy McVeigh (from the Oklahoma City bombing), yet does not provide tangible evidence that this is a reality.

NRA members are pointed out because they own guns which are allowed to be legally owned under the Constitution. I guess my 70-year father is a double threat since he is ex-military and an NRA member! Yet they failed to address the criminals and terrorists who commit illegal acts and represent the true threat to us.

The CIA was also thrown under the bus by administration through the release of papers and memos on their interrogation tactics. This puts field agents and the military at risk because the terrorists now know how we operate.

If you read through the methods used, a lot of people might change their minds about these forms of so-called “torture”. Would you rather have a terrorist be uncomfortable for several hours or watch them carry out their plans?

Junior high school students are treated worse by PE coaches than the way the CIA treated these terrorists.

The dichotomy is that we are treating these different groups in the wrong ways. For those who have showed a pattern of violence and disrespect of other rights, the administration wants to protect and befriend them. For those who have done the right things or have a differing opinion as allowed under the Constitution are branded a problem.

This is where the liberal left is trying to take our nation. As Bill O’Reilly says it is “culture war” of turning wrong into right and right into wrong. This is not what the founding fathers of our nation intended. We need to continue to speak out against this.