Howard's Political Commentary

Free societies do not become tyrannies overnight. Would be dictators take small steps toward tyranny until they are stopped or they enslave their citizens. The entire airport security fiasco which, in fact, provides very little actual security is being used to bully Americans into accepting government rule over our lives. In the name of security, the government is trampling on our civil rights and is treating us as subjects rather than free citizens. Even worse, these same virtually useless draconian measures will be expanded to every place the Department of Homeland Security will not be forbidden from putting them including public transportation - all in the name of protecting us. There are two recent news stories illustrate that the Department of Homeland Security is out of control and is a direct threat to our freedom. An airline pilot made a video showing the foolishness of TSA airport security when there are many more vulnerabilities due to ground crews who don't go thro

North Korea is threatening nuclear war against South Korea. North Korea has been supplying dangerous regimes like Iran with equipment for building nuclear weapons and missile systems to deliver them. North Korea is an economic basket case sustained largely by whatever it can extort from free countries and commerce with China (North Korean labor is even cheaper than Chinese labor). With governments of free countries finally cutting back on extortion payments, China wields the biggest influence over North Korea of any government because of the financial support it provides and the military protection it extends. It  is unlikely that anything of international consequence is done by North Korea without at least tacit Chinese approval. The recent artillery attacks by North Korea are just the latest provocation to test the will of South Korea and the United States. The US and South Korea have conducted joint military exercises in response, but they did not include a punishing reprisal of

After confirming that North Korea made an unprovoked attack on a South Korean naval vessel and killed many of the crew, I think it is obvious that South Korea and the United States are being tested. It looks like this act of war will be unanswered which lowers the status of the United States in the eyes of most of the world. Over 7 years ago, I suggested how North Korea should be dealt with. Because the situation has deteriorated since then, more drastic action would probably be required to avert continued aggression by North Korea.