Quite Dead

Most people understand the term oxymoron.

If you look it up in Webster's you get definitions like silent thunder and inexpensive Beverly Hills attorneys. But the real meaning pops up when you couple politicians with the word urgency. Here's a quote from a well known international politician who's up for re-election next year.

Responding to rising criticism of her immigration policies after another terrorist killed innocent people, German Chancellor Angela Merkel noted:

"The Amiri case raises a series of questions, not just about the deed itself, but also about the time since he came to Germany. We will now examine with urgency to what degree state practices must be changed."

For those innocents and their loved ones it was a catastrophic event. No other definition need apply. Despite the well-plotted attempts by elites and MSM to defang so-called populism, it should be pushed even harder. Local control is just one of the appropriate answers. And that begins with it your abode and your personal being and safety. Not to mention your right to both.

Politicians usually travel with a wealth of security. But even that isn't guaranteed as in the case of the Russian ambassador to Turkey. Was that just owing to a lax of security or a purposeful lax of security? It's getting less hard to get your mind around the idea that your government would sacrifice innocents to push a policy. Understand that and you'll understand why populism is such a threat. You will also understand the absence of those WMDs.

In a feeble attempt to sooth frayed nerves, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, unwittingly or no, gave a vote of confidence for the death penalty when he said: "I am very relieved that there is no more danger stemming from this perpetrator." The more this tragedy unfolds the more it becomes clear. Merkel is just another inept politician trying to cover up her ineptitude. But ineptitude and political hemlock are the same. Both can get you quite dead.

In America it's the neocons and the stalwarts of these two archaic, impotent political parties.