CURRENT ISSUE:

THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS CLEANSING ALL NATIONAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND TRAINING SEMINARS FROM USING THE PHRASE "ISLAMIC TERRORISM". CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN TO TELL THEM YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THIS POLICY SACFICING NATIONAL SECURITY FOR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

This overhaul of national security training has grave implications when intelligence professionals are taught to "de-link" terrorist behavior from the underlying ideology that motivates it.  Pursuant to the threat doctrine (Sun Tzu, The Art of War), in order to win a war you need to be able to identify your enemy and name him by name.  By cleansing our national security training manuals and seminars from words critical to the subject of national security, it obfuscates whom we are fighting, how to identify problems in their early stages, and ultimately it puts our national security and freedom at risk.  Moreover, in America, the last bastion of freedom of speech, people ought to be able to have calm, rational discourse  without government censorship taken for the purpose of political correctness, among other reasons.   Please contact your congressmen and senators to let them know that you are dissatisfied with the new lexicon-cleansing policies being implemented in DHS, DOJ, the FBI, the NCTC, and the State Department that preclude intelligence professionals from understanding what kind of war America is fighting. 

Please note: Vigilance is NOT saying we are at war with all Muslims.  But, to the extent that radicals are citing their interpretation of Islam as the source of their motivation, intelligence professionals must be permitted to acknowledge this occurrence and discuss strategies to meet this challenge. 

ISSUE:
CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS TO LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TAX-PAYER MONEY GOING TO SUPPORT HAMAS, A U.S. - DESIGNATED TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!

            Fatah and Hamas are in the process of forming a unity government in Israel.  The United States has been providing Fatah, the alleged "moderate Palestinian party" with $500,000,000 (yes, half a BILLION DOLLARS) of funding per year.  However, Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by both the US and the UK.  It is ILLEGAL to donate money to a terrorist organization. Indeed, there are people sitting in American prisons for donating money to Hamas.  

            Democrats and Republicans in both the House and the Senate are now discussing the possibility of passing a bill to cease funding to the unity government until Hamas a) promises to work to stop Palestinian terrorism against Israel, and b) recognizes Israel's right to exist.  However, political appointees in the State Department are urging continued funding of the Palestinians, claiming that it is too soon to withhold  funding.  It argues that the US should take a "wait and see" attitude to see how the new unity government will behave.

            However, the Hamas Charter is clear that is dedicated to the total destruction of Israel -- not merely to regain what some in the west refer to as "occupied territories".  Hamas considers ALL of Israel to constitute "occupied territory".  Hamas has been equally clear that its position on this has not changed due to the formation of the new unity government.  Indeed, Fatah is already showing signs of acquiescing to Hamas, by refusing to stop Palestinian invasions of Israel along the West bank during "Nakba".  

            FUNDING A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IS ILLEGAL. THERE IS NO EXCEPTION FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.