Hyping the number of deaths from terrorism

Since 2000 there has been an increase in the number of deaths from terrorism, rising from. The latest jump in terrorist activity coincided with the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011. The threat of terrorist activity is a major if not the major national security risk for many countries. The recent rise of ultra-violent groups such as ISIS in Syria and Iraq is underpinned by greater territorial ambitions in the Middle East which include the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, as well as Southern Turkey, thereby increasing the risk of further destabilization in the Middle East region. The majority of claimed deaths from terrorist attacks, in 2012 report say that terrorists killed about 11,000 people that year in nearly 6,800 attacks . Such as deaths during a Taliban offensive against U.S. troops. As for al-Qaeda, the organization or its affiliates killed a little over 1,000 people in 2012, unless you also include the Taliban and its Pakistani offshoot. That would get the figure to about 3,500. Variations of religious ideologies based on extreme interpretations of Wahhabi Islam are the key commonality for all terrorist groups (Talabian, Al-Qaida, ISIS); however their strategic goals are not necessarily the same. There is no doubt that this is a U.S. national government issue. I recall the terrorist attack that occurred in September 11, 2001. Who doesn’t? Ever since, this country has been continuously under threat. Today, ISIS, the Islamist terror group that now controls much of Syria and Iraq, poses an extremely high terror threat to U.S. targets, and has the bomb-making skills and foreign fighters needed to strike U.S. and other Western interests, according to multiple U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin Friday urging all local officials to be on the lookout for possible ISIS threats and homegrown terror  . We are facing a ruthless terrorist group that has no mercy on any creature whatsoever. They are aiming for control and power. They are willing to destroy anything they are facing in order to frighten their enemy and overcome them. The U.S. needs a stronger source of security to protect the Americans. As we see the images presented in the NY Daily News, members of this terrorist group are in U.S. and they have threatened Chicago and Washington D.C., on Twitter, and the government is begging local police to remain vigilant. We need a strong security system. The U.S. government must wiretap every line, e-email, and social network accounts and try to educate itself with the terrorist idioms and to get a grip of the tip of the tether that leads to these filthy creatures. It is not difficult for the U.S. government to locate the Twitter account user who posted the threatening images, capture, investigate and punish him for this filthy act. 

Child Homelessness

So many families are living on the edge of poverty, that one little mistake can push them into the floors of homelessness. Kids are often the collateral damage. The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation's high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence. There are 2.5 million children who had “lived in shelters, on the streets, in cars, on campgrounds or doubled up with other families in tight quarters” at some point in 2013 . Child homelessness increased by 8 percent nationally from 2012 to 2013 , which warned of potentially devastating effects on children's educational, emotional and social development, as well as on their parents' health, employment prospects and parenting abilities.  Chronically hungry, tired and stressed, those who are old enough to attend school exhibit mental health issues, and they often struggle academically. Ever thought of what some homeless children might be forced to give up in order finding temporary place for staying? For teenagers, it might be exchanging sex for a place to stay or staying someplace that does not feel safe because they are so involved in their day-to-day survival needs. That’s something really sad. Just imagine what kind of a person this child will be in the future. Of course giving up values in this situation is not optional. But because at one point that child had nowhere to stay and feel safe. Parents aren’t always going to be there for kids. Many reasons can range from death caused to parents (or single parent) to irresponsible and careless parents who shatter their household for many reasons that might either involve drug addiction or not holding a college degree. We need more affordable housing or we need to pay people a higher minimum wage. The new report by the National Center on Family Homelessness — a part of the private, nonprofit American Institutes for Research — says remedies for child homelessness should include an expansion of affordable housing, education and employment opportunities for homeless parents, and specialized services for the many mothers rendered homeless due to domestic violence. Solving child homelessness should include providing financial and mental health support for single parents, investment in safe affordable housing, and the expansion of education and employment opportunities across the socioeconomic spectrum. 

Addressing Federal Prison Overcrowding

Federalprisons may experience rising rates of violence among prisoners and growing levels of stress among prison staff because overcrowding contributes to increased inmate misconduct, which negatively affects the safety and security of inmates and staff . If you start cramming more and more people into a confined space, you’re going to create more tensions and problems, it creates the possibility that someone’s going to snap and have a violent incident.  Overcrowding also puts a strain on prison infrastructure such as dining halls, bathrooms, laundry rooms and even television rooms, which become more difficult to access. Some institutions might have to reduce prisoners’ visitation time. Everything provided for the inmates will eventually be so limited because there is not enough to give to each and every inmate. These prisoners have a different mentality. Their personalities can range from extremely short tempered to unconsciously erupting with abusiveness towards anyone around them. Instead of causing them to feel pressured by cramming inmates in one area, there needs to be a source of comfort given to them because the whole concept is to reform their mentalities and behaviors so they can be aware of their behaviors that caused them to end in prison and help them recover and become new people with rehabilitation programs so they can get back on their feet. States still need to be tough on crime, but in ways that emphasize personal responsibility, promote rehabilitation and treatment, and allow for the provision of victim restitution where applicable. Inmates who want and need the programming begin to get frustrated with the overcrowding, and that can lead to acting out.  Some inmates without programming head to the streets without addressing their criminal needs.

There is an important matter that we need to mention though, which are the serious incidents that the guards or employees are facing in the overcrowded federal prisons. Overcrowding can create dangerous conditions for inmates and prison staff. Guards are assaulted by prisoners and attacks involve weapons. Hundreds of inmate on worker assaults has occurred at various prisons over the past several years, including the brutal stabbing murder of Correctional Officer Eric Williams by a prison inmate and the shooting death of Lt. Osvaldo Albarati . Inmate’s actions can get out of control when there are too many of them crammed in a limited-spaced area. There has to be control over their actions. These inmates are audacious, reckless, and inconsiderate of others. The more we cram into one prison, the more disasters will erupt. Limiting the prison population will enable the employees and guards to have some control on the inmates to try and prevent brutal incidents and try and maintain the safety of everyone present in these federal prisons.  

Gun Control

A recent incident by a student named Jayden Freyberg, age 15, opened fire upon group of friends in a high school cafeteria north of Seattle on Friday October 24, killing at least four students and wounding four other students, officials said. The gunman also died at the scene of a self-inflicted wound. We live in a culture where kids believe that shooting people is an acceptable way of dealing with anger, rage, disappointment, bullying, break-ups, jealousy, and so on. This raises any number of questions as to why this is so. These incidents have occurred more and more often over the past five (plus) years, implying that suggestibility is playing a very large role for disturbed kids. Teens live in a world of unreality perpetuated by their immaturity, a fundamental misunderstanding of the permanence of death, an inability to appreciate consequences in any realistic manner, and other problems caused by lack of sufficient brain. Nonetheless, they are exposed to incredible amounts of violence on a daily basis and expected to figure out how to solve complex, emotionally-charged problems, often with little guidance from parents who may have little time to guide them and/or be lacking in the skills themselves. It is no wonder they cannot always cope and sometimes explode. When ready access to weapons is added to this volatile mix, tragedy seems almost inevitable. How did this student get access to a gun? It could be belonging to an irresponsible family member or maybe purchased illegally. If this country continues to have no gun control, then we are going to face a very violent and criminal generation. In the United States in the last 30 years, about three-quarters of the guns used were obtained legally by the killers. Pro-gun control advocates believe tougher gun laws could have potentially prevented these crimes. Gun control can protect families from psychotic gun owners. I believe we need a very strong background check (even if privacy needed to be invaded such as by tapping a phone or spying) for every individual who requests to purchase a weapon. Background checks will help keep guns out of the dangerous hands of people who should not have them. Americans for Responsible Solutions supported by former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly, advocates for background checks to prevent criminals, domestic abusers, and the seriously mentally ill from buying guns. Since the NICS instant background check system was implemented in 1998, background checks have denied transfers to over 1.7 million prohibited purchasers. Their needs tobe a serious punishment to criminals who misuse guns on innocent people to be a lesson to gun owners, to help prevent future outrageous shooting, and for all Americans to stop living in fear. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Buried in the Second Amendment is the right to self-defense, the very mechanism that allowed our Founding Fathers to win freedom from tyranny. Our forefathers wanted us to be able to protect ourselves against outside threats, and even from internal tyranny. They may have even intended us to be able to protect and defend ourselves from each other, but clearly not to attack with and misuse on children, high-school populations and co-workers and law enforcement that could be so easily slaughtered.  We live in a reality.

Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI)

Supplemental Security Income is a program that was created in 1974 to help blind, aged and disabled people meet basic needs for food, clothing and shelter. The program provides income support to persons aged 65 or older, blind or disabled adults, and blind or disabled children. SSI benefit rate for an individual living in his or her own household and with no other countable income is $698 monthly; for a couple (with both husband and wife eligible), the SSI benefit rate is $1,048 monthly. Under SSI each eligible person is provided a monthly cash payment based on a statutory federal benefit rate. If an individual or couple is living in another person household and is receiving both food and shelter from the person in whose household they are living, the federal benefit rate is reduced by one-third. This is done instead of determining the actual dollar value of the in-kind support and maintenance. The very program that is supposed to be people’s safety net is actually the source of the problem, experts say. S.S.I. traps many disabled people by limiting their income to levels just above the poverty line, and taking away their cash benefits if they achieve any level of security. Some individuals might not be fully disabled and have the ability to work to earn income but every extra penny earned will be counted against their SSI benefits and will result in the benefit’s reduction. The problems stem from the Social Security Administration’s failure was to structure a program that motivates work. In cases where a disabled is being punished for receiving income that disqualified him or her from the SSI benefits or results in SSI income reduction will only discourage the individual to become inactive and not willing to work and end up fully depending on SSI income. It is relatively easy to accept cash benefits but very hard to get into the workplace. I disagree with such a discouraging system that has a long history of benefits. There needs to be solutions found to distance people from being lazy and fully depending on benefits or easy money from such programs. TheU.S. needs to be considerate of all kinds of health issues and disabilities and must assign every ill individual to a suitable job place in according to his or her disability. People must work to live and cannotdepend on other sources to receive monthly income because that money is being deducted from actively working individuals who are forced to pay taxes to be spent on such cases which I find to be unfair for many hard working individuals who either hold a college degree or just a high school graduate.I strongly suggest a work-first approach that would help people get job training or employment before they go through the process of getting on S.S.I. Now people must go through the lengthy process of proving that they cannot work before they are given access to job training and other programs.

Group of Muslims Do Not Make All Muslims Bad

On Friday, October 17, 2014, AMERICAblog published an article titled "On Islam, Liberals Actually Agree on what’s Important". The author Jon Green is trying to send a message to those who see the religion of Islam as it being a religion of injustice and lacks on giving its followers the freedom. He is facing a difficulty in accommodating the religion of Islam, in which it creating a mafia such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and promoting terrorism, violence, human massacres, and disapproving of human rights and freedom. He sees Islam and “differently different” and that all Muslims are violent and oppressive. He is basing his beliefs and judgments on a Maher’s HBO talk show debate where most opinions narrowed down towards the Islamic religion as being non-liberal where even the actor Ben Affleck, who was a guest speakers on the show, pointed out that TV host Bill Maher and author Sam Harris were “stereotyping, racist, and gross” on their depiction of the entire religion of being responsible for all of the terrorist acts. The author’s argument is that Islam has a ridiculous violence and insanity that its text shares with numerous other holy books and such a religion has yet to have a liberalizing reformation. He claims that when holy books are taken too seriously they grant legitimacy to those who are already primed for violence and oppression. His logic tells him that “Islam is no monolith and its people exhibit the same nuances and complexities as everyone else — complexities that usually provide more explanatory power than religion alone when we look at violent social movements.” I’m going to have to disagree with the author’s opinion due to his ignorance. Islam is not limited to ISIS. I can see why the author sees Islam as a cruel religion (due to what is being shared on the media) but that should not be the end point where he makes judgments when he lacks an enormous amount of information concerning one of the largest religions to be. If anything, Islam is oppressed and is in a stage of misuse by ignorant, non-educated, drugged, sick bastards that have no mercy whatsoever on any human being. The author needed to do more research and go into depth to be able to differentiate between the book and its reader. ISIS is misinterpreting the text in the holly Quran; in fact, they are falsifying the text and rewording it. They deceive the poverty and the ignorant by attracting them with money and paradise through Islam.

The Secret of the Chemical Weapons !!!

On OCT. 15, 2014, New York Times published an article on the opinion pages written by The Editorial Board “A Deadly Legacy in Iraq” in which they showing an investigation exposes shocking failings by the Pentagon that allowed highly dangerous chemical weapons to be left behind in Iraq. WAIT WHAT???

This investigation exposes shocking failings by the Pentagon, among them a callous disregard for the safety and care of American and Iraqi troops and a disturbing pattern of secrecy that can only erode public confidence in government. I definitely agree with them on that. The Iraq warhas cost us $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans. And total of 4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012 for the reason of the chemical weapons and our pentagon allowed highly dangerous chemical weapons to be left behind!!

 Also the investigation show that our troops kept stumbling over these weapons, the discoveries were not shared publicly, and even in the military and Congress there were very few people who knew about them. Troops who came into contact with chemical weapons were told to keep the information secret. The result was to expose everyone else — soldiers and doctors — to further risk. Why they want to keep it secret.  And some troops did not receive proper medical care or official recognition of their injuries in the form of medals .that is unacceptable, and the Pentagon said that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had not ordered a review of the health cases of individual soldiers detailed by The Times. So the questions where is President Obama's concern for these veterans health and welfare, and why has he not ordered Hagel to investigate and ensure proper medical care is provided?

 And our government task now to keep a close watch on the ISIS-held areas where chemical weapons were found and be prepared to take preventive action. American officials have downplayed the possibility that ISIS but could use any existing chemical stocks but two arms control experts, Joseph Cirincione and Paul Walker, suggest in an article for Defense One, a national security Internet site, that ISIS may have already used chemical weapons to kill three Kurds in Kobani, Syria. And the Pentagon apparently lost interest in the chemical weapons problem, left it to the Iraqis and the Iraqis have failed to do so.

Its Incomprehensible to me how's our government work if we go back three decades ago our government delivered to the Saddam regime the chemical weapons to support Iraq war with Iran, and we went to Iraq in 2003 to destroyed but we lift some for ISIS on a gold plate to kill more people definitely agree with NY Time that risk to civilians and the armies trying to fight a new enemy in Iraq with same chemical weapons. As US Citizen and veteran my right to know why our government didn't say anything about it ?