Tuesday, May 4, 2010 – Roger Robinson, Heather Robinson

Frank shares his thoughts on the failed NYC bombing and the Obama Administration’s response to it.  Roger Robinson, former senior economist on President Reagan’s national security council, analyzes the Greek debt crisis, Red China’s attempt to corner the raw minerals market, and foreign divestment from Iran.  Heather Robinson of the Huffington Post talks with Frank about the failed NYC bombing and the ongoing Iraqi election recount.  Finally, Frank finishes the show with a concluding monologue on the truly appropriate response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 – Monologue

I want to share with you a few thoughts of my own about this business of the bomber in New York City. It appears that we have a suspect, at least one, apprehended. It is sure, at this point, not clear that he was acting alone, in fact, there are some press reports that indicate he was not, that there is going to be a number of others who will be brought before the bar of justice in due course, but at least Faisal Shahzad, an American citizen of Pakistani extraction, has been taken into custody.

Presumably he has been read his Miranda rights as our friend Mark Thiessen points out, thereby minimizing once again, does this sound familiar folks, reminiscent of the panty-bomber business, minimizing the interrogation to which he might have been subjected in order to secure that actionable information, if he had it, that might have been obtained and used – perhaps to round up others or perhaps to prevent further acts of violence that might be in the offing. We don’t know the full extent of this yet by any means. But one thing is clear, and I just want to play a piece of President Obama in a speech today who rendered some thoughts on this today:

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “This incident is another sobering reminder of the times in which we live. Around the world and here at home, there are those who would attack our citizens and would slaughter innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of their murderous agenda. They will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of life, but once again an attempted attack has been failed. It has failed because ordinary citizens were vigilant and reported suspicious activities to the authorities, and because these authorities, local, state, and federal, acted quickly and did what they are trained to do. And this suspect has been apprehended because of close and effective coordination at every level.”

Well, once again, the President’s speaking in generalities, alluding to the nature of the threat, but not explaining to us why folks like Mr. Shahzad engaged in this sort of murderous behavior. In fact, as we talk about a lot here at Secure Freedom Radio, while it is still possible to do it, that if we are not clear what is animating these folks, and again we don’t have much to go on here other than that this individual is from Pakistan originally, that he has apparently emulated terrorist bombing techniques used by what adherents to authoritative Islam calls Shariah elsewhere around the world. And fortunately, he failed to do mass harm to Americans and others visiting perhaps in Times Square on Saturday night, only because his firing devices apparently failed to operate as they were designed to.

But if we are not clear that it is in the DNA of Shariah that people engage in this kind of behavior, that the murder, the mayhem they seek to inflict upon is by design, in their view directed by God, by Allah, we are going to have an infinitely harder time countering it, let alone defeating it. And I’m for one here to say to you, and I hope to everyone here in this country, it’s past time that we stop indulging in this pretense that we are disinterested in or absolutely refusing to acknowledge the connection between Shariah and violent Jihad and for that matter the stealthy kind of Jihad as well.

We’ll keep you focused on this, we’ll keep you informed about this, and we will keep you equipped to make sensitive and hopefully to insist through the accountability you’re entitled to under our system of government, not Shariah mind you, but our system of government, under our Constitution, under our rule of law, the kind of accountability for protecting you that your government has as its first responsibility. And if they fail, well then we will join you in holding them accountable for sure.