Fighting Cowards

             The soil of the United States has been blessed for many years; we as a people do not deal with an onslaught of wide spread attacks on a day to day basis. People of the United States are fortunate that their largest doses of fear are presented through their harmless entertainment centers. Other country citizens are not so fortunate they awake everyday in the real fear of death and destruction from an unnamed and unseen killer, we in the United States refer to as terrorism. In the past the sneaky head of terrorism has entered the United Sates and the American public was quickly lulled to sleep by the media portraying it as an isolated instance. Our government has continued to keep quite the real threat that is continually eliminated on a day to day basis. Thus leaving the American public with a false since of security in there daily lives. Until the 11 of September 2001 when the American people were awaken from their naive slumber, the over 6000 casualties can not be referred to as an Isolated instance the American slumber has been replaced by an angry reality. Terrorism has revealed the Achilles tendon of the American impenetrable armor. The American government must look into the impossible task of defending against and enemy that wishes not to be seen and offering reasonable protection while still affording the freedoms, which America was founded on.
             In the House of Representatives on April 6, 2000 A bill was proposed and passed to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide for improved Federal efforts to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks, and for other purposes.
             The President should strengthen Federal interagency emergency planning by the Federal 9
             Emergency Management Agency and other appro- 10
             Private Federal, State, and local agencies for develop- 11
             ment of a capability for early detection and warning 12
             of and response to potential domestic terrorist at- 13
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