Liberty Minute for April 24 2014

Parents have a duty to monitor the attitudes and enthusiasms of their children, and report them to law enforcement if they display symptoms of incipient extremism. This is the view of Lisa Monaco, Barack Obama?s Security and Counterterrorism adviser.

 In an address to Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Monaco suggested that ?sudden personality changes? in children, including a ?confrontational? attitude, might betoken terrorist tendencies. Monaco lamented that ?The government is rarely in a position to observe these early signals, so we need to do more to help communities understand the warning signs, and then work together to intervene before an incident can occur.?

 In the case of teenage Somali immigrant Mohamed Mohamoud, the father did exactly as Monaco recommended: He called the FBI when the 19-year-old began expressing militant attitudes. Rather than working to defuse the youngster?s militancy, the FBI abetted it, luring him into a scripted plot to bomb a Christmas ceremony in Portland.

In addition to being informants, the Feds want parents to act as terrorism recruiters, identifying troubled young people ? usually boys ? who can be fed into the FBI?s Homeland Security Theater apparatus.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.