If you see something, you must be able to actually say it

Congressman Barry Loudermilk of Georgia was a guest on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney Friday.  As a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Gaffney wanted to know Loudermilk’s thoughts on the attack in Brussels and if we should be concerned that similar attacks could happen here. Loudermilk offered a detailed assessment:

“These were more military style operations… You had to have explosives, these guys had to know how to assemble them, they had to know how to transport them, detonate them, and to know what types of targets they wanted to go after. So these are not your typical local citizens who’ve been radicalized. And for those to be carried out, the only way to stop that type of activity, in my opinion, people were asking me after Brussels, do we need to start putting security at the  outside of our airports? Do we need to screen people before they get in? There is no way in this nation that you’re going to be able to stop anyone who’s destined to do something from doing something. We cannot put that type of security into place and still protect the freedom of Americans. The key is to stop the bad people from coming into the nation.”

Gaffney noted that Loudermilk is one of the voices calling out political correctness as a barrier to dealing with this problem:

“I just had finally had enough of the political correctness that the other side was trying to use to stop a piece of legislation from even getting a good hearing in our committee. And I made the statement that political correctness is killing Americans… In San Bernardino, the neighbor of the terrorist noticed suspicious activity but was afraid to report it to the authorities because they were afraid they would be labeled as an Islamophobe and they would be investigated by the authorities…. That is the problem we are facing in this nation.”

Finally, Gaffney asked Loudermilk to comment on the ALERT Bill:

“The ALERT Bill actually originated from meeting with local law enforcement in my district and talking to others throughout the nation. There are too many political and bureaucratic obstacles that are in the way of cooperation between the federal and local law enforcement agencies. Our FBI has done a very good job of stopping acts of terrorism but they are stretched thin. Homeland Security is stretched thin, we have to find a way to better address, especially these lone wolf attacks and the radicalization, and who is better fit to do that than the officers who patrol those neighborhoods? They know the people, they know the communities. They know when something just doesn’t look right.”

This is a critical step, Gaffney concluded.