Dear Pals,
I have spent my whole career as my clients' "thinking partner" - part of my job has always been to look at historical trends and behavioral patterns and then to think about what they might mean in the context of possibilities embedded in the current situation and then look ahead to "fog sculpture" various scenarios amd speculative outcomes.
To do this, you have to learn to think out-of-the-box. To think against your clients like the competition, to think through all possible scenarios. You have to ask, how would I go against my friends if I was their avowed enemy?
There is always a continuum of possible outcomes running from NOT POSSIBLE all the way to HIGHLY PROBABLE and on to VERY LIKELY with a myriad of tangential outcomes in between.
I had to strategize action plans based on intelligence and research assessments. Were we skipping down the Ethical Yellow Brick Road on a sunny day? Or were we headed into an Unethical Dark Dirty Alley full of thugs at 3:00 am. You get the analogy.
Part of my job was to even think the unthinkable.
That said, here's some cognitative speculation on an alternative rationale for holding the Muslim Terrorist trial in New York that I have not heard expressed in the politically-correct media thus far.
It's grist for the meditative mill.
I truly hope this is just an inane worst case scenario blue-sky speculation. Some will say, "It's conspiracy theory"...other's will just say, "It's just Birk...pushing the buttons to annoy his liberal pals." Or, "The poor lad has slipped his moorings"
Okay, so be it...but, I'm still going raise the worst case unthinkable scenario, I'll take the heat...you think for yourself.
Let's all hope I just have an overactive imagination.
Let's connect a few dots.
DOT ONE: In President Obama’s July 2, 2008 speech calling America to national service, he proposed “a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as our military." (UNDERLINES AND BOLD IS ADDED BY ME)
Does this idea seem like a pressing national priority to you?
Why?
Why!
Why would we need this "Civilian National Security force as strong as our military?"
Oh, Birk, you silly alarmist, it's for use in times of national emergency like Katrina. That is close to the The White House PR answer.
But, hold on a sec Amigo...if they are to be like our military...does that mean they'll be armed? They'd have to be if they were to quote our Inspiring President, " just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as our military." (UNDERLINES AND BOLD IS ADDED BY ME)
And what about these questions.
Who will lead it?
Who will that leadership person report to? (I'll bet it's a new CZAR, some one who knows how to run a large organization with local cells in many communities and who reports to no one but The Wiz of O.)
Who will pay for it? And, how will it be funded? Out of what Department?
And, what would it's roll be vis-a-vis local police, state police, FBI and National Guard units.
What exactly is "American national service" - is this Civil Defense on steroids? It sounds good, even patriotic and downright inspiring...but is it?
DOT TWO: President Obama's stated objective - repeatedly - is to fundamentally transform America.
Would use a new National Security Force to help make that happen? This idea of a National Security Force is not without precedent in the world. The Tonton Macoute sure came in handy for Papa and then Baby Doc, The SS, Gestapo, NKVD and KGB worked pretty good too.
DOT THREE: Our inspiring new President is always in a BIG hurry to make this fundamental transformation happen in America...TIME is of the essence.
DOT FOUR: The more ordinary people wake up and look closely at his policies...the less they like them. Here and abroad. Check this out for yourself.
DOT FIVE: There is NO legal reason to hold the trial of the "alleged" but, already confessed Muslim Terrorists in New York City. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
ABC News has just reported that these Muslim Terrorists have stated that they will not deny their role in 9/11 - but, they will plead NOT GUILTY and then use the trial to explain why their actions were totally justified by their Islamic beliefs.
Undoubtedly they will use this "showcase of American Justice" as a platform to inspire like-minded Muslims everywhere and to attract new true believers to their jihad against America.
Personally, I don't think we need to hear all that. I'm NOT interested in their rationale for WHY they did it. The question is, "Did they do it." If they confirm their previous confessions and admissions with a Yes, then that's all we need to know.
I for one, do not think we need to plumb the recesses of their "alleged minds" for an Islamic rationale that somehow seeks to justify killing thousands of my countrymen.
Unless there is a NEW verdict: Not Guilty by reason of Muslim Beliefs.
DOT SIX: Why is New York City and indeed the entire USA being "teed up" by Attorney General Holder? Isn't it likely to provoke the Islamic world with a long and costly and DANGEROUS show trial? Isn't the AG kind of taunting the Muslim Brotherhood with the NYC-location and kind of daring them to do something about it?
Why are just "asking for trouble" by doing it. Is that a premeditated provocation?
Especially since Muslim Terrorist have already SUCCESSFULLY targeted the nation's business and financial heart in NYC TWICE. 1993 and 9/11.
Could the 3rd time be an even worse charm?
Why invite more Muslim Terrorists to hit us when the worldwide media will all be here to cover the Trial Of The Century?
THE PUBLIC PR SCENARIO PER ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER:
The stated scenario is to "Showcase American justice to the world and to bring the "alleged" terrorists to justice long denied them by the prior Bush Administration."
He admits it's a showcase aka Show Trial. It could also become a showcase of Muslim justifications under Sharia law and the Koran/Quran.
Remember, as I've said before, Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't break wind unless he gets the green light from the Big O in the O-val O-ffice. Robert Gibbs is typing all of Holders' talking points with Rham and David looking over his shoulder to edit.
THE OUT-OF-THE-BOX BIRK UNTHINKABLE SPECULATION:
Is President Obama's Administration playing multi-dimensional chess here... most folks think it's a checkers game.
I don't, I give the boys from The Windy City a ton of credit for wile, guts, moxie and pure unadulterated chutzpah.
What if the following calculations have been made?
PLAN A: Everything goes off as painted in the rosiest Holder-scenario and the Muslim Terrorists are convicted and brought to justice without incident.
President Obama can then smile and say, "See I was right to have such confidence in Attorney General Holder and in the US Justice System."
But, let's suppose that things don't go according exactly to Hoyle and we succeed in once again attracting the mayhem of Islams' true-believers to Gotham.
The attacks in Mumbai, India (Bombay) is a good model to look at for how lots of low-tech terrorist acts can be effectively be used to shut down and terrorize an entire city and nation. As well as crippling a fragile and damaged stock market and financial/banking system here and sending major shock waves around the world in financial markets from Londan to Tokyo to Bejing.
Would that help strengthen or weaken the value of the dollar as the "world currency of record?"
So, I have to wonder, if that nightmare scenario plays out, is there a PLAN B - if the do-do seriously hits the fan in NYC? Is there a plan for our national security here at home. Is there a plan for our currency protection in world markets.
Is there PLAN B?
Well, here's some admittedly out-of-the-box Birk-Think.
If I was our inspiring new President and the trial "went south," FIRST I'd drop Eric Holder into a wood chipper and hang the deal on him.
After all, President Obama has said in public "this is Attorney General Holder's decision not mine."
He's left himself his usual O-U-T!!
And, if the do-do really did hit the fan, wouldn't that be another Rham Emmanuel-style "crisis that's too good to waste?"
I think a major Muslim Terrorist hits in NYC would have a panicked US populace clamoring for our inspiring new President to do something FAST.
I wonder if they have Plan B. or Operation USSR all ready loaded in the chute?
Wouldn't a national crisis like this, with so many National Guard units deployed overseas, be an ideal time to declare Martial Law and suspend Habeus Corpus.
Would our Fearless Leader even do "The Hustle" ( A little dance that has been updated and is now called "The Obama Spin") to side-step Posse Commitatus and the U.S. Constitution and to move quickly to protect the American people and stablize our streets with a Civilian National Security Force organized from our own communities.
Naturally, we'll have to temporarily dis-arm the American people, we can't have any "Cowboy Vigilantism" or reprisals against innocent Muslims or freelance law enforcement.
So we'll be asking you to turn in your guns to the Civilian National Security Force for the larger common good.
Don't worry...we'll lock 'em up all for safekeeping and storage in the empty automobile plants, that will create some stimulus jobs for temporarily idled UAW workers.
Gun owners get a receipt and when things return to "normal" - we'll give your guns back, provided that you can prove you are a "safe and stable law-abiding citizen." Details on "law-biding" to be announced.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN OVERNIGHT?
Say, there are lots of ACORN volunteers and Census Takers that could be quickly mobilized and led by WELL-TRAINED community organizers.
There is even the SEIU...they are very patriotic and the SEIU President is a REALLY close pal of our inspiring new President...I mean the SEIU guy's already been to The White House in person 22 times in just 11 months.
The Dali Lama couldn't even get in once.
So why is the SEIU guy given such access to OUR inspiring new President?
I wonder what HOPE and CHANGE they've been talking about?
Maybe, they've been discussing if Mr. SEIU would serve in the Administration, if called to duty in a time of national crisis?
Maybe they were just talking about his plans to expand the SIEU overseas to help the other workers of the world achieve social justice?
Or, maybe they were chatting about new SEIU opportunities for organizing healthcare profesionals?
Who knows? Maybe they were just talking about Joe Biden? Hahahaha!
FINAL QUESTION: Could such an unthinkable Preposterous Premeditated Provocative Pretext EVEN be possible??
Well, if some dumb schmoo out here in the Heartland like me can think of it...I'll bet you a McRib from an unclean swine that our little pals in the smaghs and egals can think of it too.
And I'm sure that the really really really smart people (Rham Emmanuel and David Axeholerod and the rest of President Obamas pals) can think of it too.
But I wonder if our inspiring new President has personally thought this whole Muslim Terrorist Trial in NYC thing all the way through?
I'm sure he's giving it at least as much attention as he is the Afghan troop deployment request. Maybe Joe Biden's helping...that's reassuring isn't it?
Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic. A Mob of One.
PS: Of course, this is a totally speculative and highly improbable scenario, I'm sure that President Obama has carefully and thoughtfully considered every possible ramification of the Muslim Terrorist Trial in NYC.
I'm serious when I say that I do not under-estimate his intellect, will, intent, focus and political wile and adroitness.
After all, he is Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America, Commander-in Chief and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, he is the very embodiment of HOPE and CHANGE. He is a true-believer in fundamentally transforming America and he makes no bones about it.
I'm sure he's right about everything with regard to the NYC Trials...I mean look at his track record and how well everything has worked out so far.
I'm sure my pal Liberal Larry is thrilled with his Obama...although Larry's been oddly silent lately.
Oh well, as that great New York City publishing icon, Alfred E. Neumann would say, "What, me worry?"
Sit back, relax have a big swig of MOXIE and let The Trial of The Century Begin.
All's well, President Obama is in charge...what could possibly go wrong?
