The Salahi Scandal: Homeland Security Or Homeland Enslavement?

By now, most readers are familiar with the story of how
a Virginia couple,


Michaele and Tareq Salahi,
crashed the White House State Dinner last Tuesday
evening. President and Mrs. Obama were entertaining
Indian Prime Minister


Manmohan Singh
in the first official State Dinner of the new
administration. The Salahis were not on the invited
guest list, but were still


allowed to walk right into the White House.
They even had face-to-face conversations with both
President Obama and


Vice President Joe Biden.
Photographs of the Salahis with the


President
and


Vice President
have been published in numerous newspapers and on
hundreds of web sites.

I wonder if the American people are thinking this
episode through? Think of it: in the post-9/11 world, a
world that has invented the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS),
the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),
body scanners, retina readers, the


Patriot Act,
hundreds of laws and regulations restricting the
freedoms and liberties of the American people, thousands
of cameras photographing our public movements, and
satellite spy devices, a couple can walk right into the
White House and meet the President and Vice President
without being invited!

Is there something wrong with this picture, or what?

I well remember what I had to go through when I was an
invited guest of then-Vice President


George H. W. Bush
at the White House. My wife and I joined several others
for a luncheon with Vice President Bush and his wife,
Barbara. Later that day, we were in a crowd of several
hundred who got to meet


President Ronald Reagan.
Needless to say, security was tight.

Upon arriving, we had to show the proper credentials to
White House security, along with a


photo ID
and the personal invitation that had been sent to us
ahead of time. I remember how some of the folks who had
actually received invitations were denied entrance due
to bureaucratic mix-ups or unintentional lapses in
proper protocols. And these were people who really did
have an invitation to be there.

I can tell you this: there was absolutely no way that an
uninvited person could have gained access to the White
House that day. And remember: that was nearly two
decades BEFORE 9/11!

That an uninvited couple could be granted access to the
President and Vice President in this day and time is
more than a
"fluke." It betrays something much deeper.

For the last 8 years, the American people have been told
they must sacrifice certain liberties in order that the
federal government might protect them. And for the most
part, the American people have been happy to accommodate
this incessant intrusion into their personal liberties.
They know the feds are monitoring their emails, personal
phone conversations, and even their personal letters
when received from overseas. They have sat silently as
their banking institutions have monitored and reported
virtually any and all financial transactions to the
federal government. In today`s super-security world, one
cannot even cash a check without showing the bank teller
his or her driver`s license, which is recorded and made
available to the feds. Sometimes, we are even required
to provide our thumbprints. Beyond that, even certain
service personnel that must come into our homes to
provide in-home repair services, home inspections, or
general services are often required to report what they
see to various law enforcement authorities. All of this
is done in the name of
"national security."

All the while, America`s federal buildings today more
resemble castles of ancient Europe than they do
buildings that house the people`s servants. Concrete
barriers along with super-reinforced,
"bomb proof"
structures remind one of castles of old, with their
guard towers and crocodile-filled moats. Today, people
must walk through metal-detectors and surrender their
pocketknives to even visit their local supervisor of
elections office (or just about any other public office,
for that matter). Again, this is all done under the
rubric of
"homeland security."

In the name of "national security," veterans who have been accused of some kind of
domestic disturbance or who have affirmatively answered
an ambiguous question on a VA form regarding whether
they have feelings of
"anger" or
"depression"
are having their right to keep and bear arms stripped
away.

That`s right, in the name of
"homeland
security," some of the very men who were entrusted
with lethal weapons to fight America`s wars are now
being told they are not fit to purchase or possess their
own firearms.

Yet, in spite of all of the above, an uninvited couple
is allowed to calmly walk right past Secret Service
personnel and have personal audiences with the President
and Vice President of the United States in what is
ostensibly the most heavily-guarded, tightly secured
building in the country: the White House.

Furthermore, this story comes on the heels of the mass
shooting on what one would think would be a rather
secure location:


the US Army base at Fort Hood, Texas.
And, have we forgotten the fellow who brought a gun into
the Capitol Building (the home of the US Congress) in
Washington, D.C., a few years ago and killed two police
officers?

Dear Reader, ask yourself this question, Do you really
think those schmucks in Washington, D.C., actually
believe that protecting you and me is more important
than protecting American soldiers, US congressmen, and
especially the President of the United States?
"Are you
serious?" (to quote Nancy Pelosi.)

The truth is, to the elites in DC, you and I are
expendable commodities. In fact, to some of the soulless
creatures running things, you and I are worth more dead
than alive (but that`s a topic better discussed at a
later date).

The point is, all this talk about
"national
security" is simply a ruse for Big Government
elitists to steal our liberties and make slaves out of
us. They don`t care about security; all they care about
is POWER.

So, the next time you are required to be strip-searched
by an airport screener, or to surrender your pocketknife
at your local county commissioner`s office, or to show
your driver`s license to your bank teller, or to submit
to a random police checkpoint; the next time you make a
phone call that you know is monitored by a federal agent
(and they all are), or drive under a video camera, or
visit these castle-esque federal buildings, remember
Michaele and Tareq Salahi.

And, if you are old enough, remember the time in America
when we really were the
"land of the free."

And also remember that it`s not security they seek—it`s
the abolition of our liberty.

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the
pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Florida. He hosts a

weekly radio show. His
website is

here.