We can only hope

Reports coming out of Miami state that seven men in Florida took an oath to Al Qaeda. Pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden and swore to kill all the devils they could find. Then their aspirations grew into destroying the 110-story Sears Tower -- the tallest building in the United States. The only problem with their plans was the person they thought was an al Qaeda representative was actually an FBI informant.

R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida was quoted as saying, "These are precisely the types of groups that we should be dismantling and disrupting and we are going to continue to aggressively pursue any cell that expresses intent to commit terrorist acts against the United States."

Authorities are saying the groups goals were more of dreaming then operational, but still it makes me wonder what would lead to American citizens hating their country so much they want to destroy it. It leads me to wonder if there any other groups like this wondering around America.

The whole event leads me to think perhaps things are not as happy and loving in our own backyards as we assume they are and if they are not, well, what are we going to do about it? We sure do not want to go around as the children in Nazi Germany, watching their own family progress through their daily life and telling the authorities when they do something wrong. I can just imagine our own kids standing there, gameboy in hand, working diligently towards that next level while Mom and Dad are carted away to answer for their sins against the country.

The situation would be more of a spy game for the children then a real life experience and the aftereffect of what they had done would not hit them till later, then they would realize their bank was carted off as well, no more games.

We can only hope that it never comes to that scenario and the white house, picket fence and apple pie are still as strong in Americans as it was during WWII and we never reach that level.