Well Oklahoma has given us our first glimpse of a beheading in the United States of America. If you want the story simply google
“beheading in Oklahoma”.

Never thought I would see it in the heartland first, but it was probably going to start somewhere.

We know we have porous borders. We know we have people coming from middle eastern countries, South American countries and all over the world. We still have the best opportunity for people to succeed in the world.

But within all of the groups coming into America, we know there are terrorists as well. We know we have radical imams going into prisons and ostensibly bringing prisoners to Islam. It sounds like a responsible mission until the word Jihad is brought into the mix. Having a religion that uses the word Jihad and imposes its thought process on others may appeal to someone whose liberties have been taken away.

Don’t misunderstand. I believe there are very responsible Islamic people in the United States who follow Islam and believe Allah is the true God, and are willing to let other people subscribe to their religious beliefs as well. We need more people speaking out against the terrorism hijacking a peaceful religion.

Logic tells us that we need to be able to use language that describes what is happening without the fear of reprisal from any group, except those it applies to. We have to address the issue of Radical Islamic Extremism. We have to define it. We have to measure it in those groups where it exists.

It is similar to the era of organized crime. We have a definition for it. We know what it is. We have legal jargon that labels certain groups as organized crime, and when this label is generated, our police, the FBI and others have special powers including admisable surveillance of said organizations.

We need the same type of war powers we have against organized crime implemented against organisations that are proven to advocate Jihad or violence against any Americans, institutions, groups, and allies. Congress is in business to write laws that govern our policing agencies. It is something we need to require our executive branch to implement, and it is something our judicial branch should monitor for constitutionality.

Let’s quit tiptoeing around the key definitions of terrorism. It is not workplace violence. It is not a skirmish overseas, or a terrorist operation, it is war.

We do the things we can financially to cut terrorist funding. We do the things we can to teach children to follow the rule of law in schools. We use the power we have been blessed with militarily to protect the people of the United States and its Allies, and we let the people of the world determine their own form of government.

We never accept terrorism in America. We let everyone involved know that when it occurs we will devote every resource at our disposal to stamp it out. We will stamp it out not just where it occurs as with this unnamed terrorist in Oklahoma. We will follow it to its source where the man was indoctrinated in prison. We will stamp out its source and every tendril that crops up like a cancer within our free society.

-Talking Haid – Comments Welcome

We talk about ISIS being a terrorist organization that now must be stopped, like many of the other terrorist organizations originating in the Middle East. The pundits are correct. They must be stopped, but lets use logic to do it. Cutting off the hand or foot of an organization only allows it to grow in a different direction.

When cancer grows as a tumor we don’t cut out the tendrils that are metastasizing, we attack the central growth and all of its tendrils. We cut it out, we starve it of blood, we irradiate it until there are no cells left to grow more cancer cells.

The terrorist organizations must be stopped at their source. We have to cut off the food supply of the organization. That food supply is money. ISIS is nothing without money. Its growing organization is funded by the dollars it has stolen from banks in IRAQ and Syria, and funds it receives from donors sympathetic with its cause.

Why only spend billions of dollars in attacking ISIS from the air, training would be supporters in Syria, and arming Iraqis like the Kurds who will actually fight the terrorist organizations?

How about attacking the source of funds? Those who contribute funds don’t just go to jail, they lose everything they own, liquidated to fund the process of taking down the terrorist. Like gangs in the United States, once they are labeled organized crime every part of the organization is confiscated and liquidated to fund more pursuit of organized crime.

If the funding source is a country like Iran. The best solution is to become energy independent and stop sending billions of dollars overseas to a country responsible for much of the instability in the Middle East.

Logic tells us that as long as organizations have money to burn, they will be able to attract, hire, train, and propagandize people into believing they are following a will greater than their own. In this case that will is supposedly Allah.

Without money the will, the power of the organization is at best localized. Without money, without food, without armaments they will wither and die or be destroyed by the forces with which they claim to be at war.

Let’s use our heads and declare all out war on the funding sources for ISIS terrorists and other terrorist organizations. Like a weed they must be destroyed from the root up where they receive nourishment. Once all funding links to these organizations are destroyed, the organization itself will fall.