The Russian Canary in the Coal Mine

A child could connect these dots. Can Biden?

I have grave concerns – fear even – arising out of three separate, but related events, thousands of miles apart.

The event, most geographically distant from the U.S. occurred in Moscow. I am referring, of course, to the ISIS attack on concert goers that resulted in over 135 innocents killed and scores more wounded, many critically.

ISIS murderers. Photos by AP; Reuters; Social Media/e2w

The second event is ongoing, thousands of miles away from the Moscow massacre. It is the wide-open U.S. southern border that has existed as a matter of Biden administration policy since January 2021. The millions of unverified and in many cases unknown people from over 160 countries who have flooded across our border is literally an invasion. For those who don’t like it being called an ‘invasion,’ you are free to call it a migration, immigration, or a pink, rock-candy mountain. Call it what you want – it will not change the fact that it is a massive invasion of our Country by people have no legal right to be here.

It also is an abdication of our government’s duty to defend the border. And there is no question, but that this dereliction of duty has empowered the Mexican drug cartels even more. Many of them now cannot be distinguished from small-nation militaries, both in terms of money at their disposal as well as weapons and equipment.

That ought to be cause for grave national concern for serious people who care about the country and its citizens. It is, however, quite obviously of little or no concern to the Biden administration. 

The danger posed by this hostile para-military control of our border is now magnified by reports that the cartels’ multi-national people-smuggling operations include hundreds of people on the terrorist watch list. It only took four shooters to carry out the Moscow massacre.

The third event provides one of the threads that ties the other two together. It is the recent vote by every Democratic senator against an amendment to the $1.2 trillion government bill that would have barred the use of taxpayer funds to fly illegal invaders into towns and cities in the interior of the country for resettlement. This obviously is part and parcel of the Democrats’ strategy of not doing anything that would smack of the slightest opposition to the illegal invasion.

Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader. Photo, New York Post/Gerry Images

 The murderous ISIS attack on innocent music fans in Moscow is the canary in the coal mine. Like the canary that drops dead from unseen and undetected gases that nevertheless are deadly, it is a warning of what is to come. 

The ISIS or other Islamic jihadist terrorists who doubtlessly have crossed the unprotected border into our country are like the deadly gas that kills the canary. As yet, they are mainly unseen and undetected (although increasing numbers on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended). But, if we do not heed the warning of the Moscow canaries, then Americans are going to suffer the same fate. It is not a question of if, but of when.

In the present perilous circumstances, the administration, aided and abetted by ill–motived collaborators such as the Senate Democrats, are like the unscrupulous coal mine owner. They are doing nothing to take the necessary steps to protect those whom they are legally and morally obligated to serve and protect.

The Country is like the coal miners. Just as the miners depend on the mine owner to try to protect them from poisonous gases and other dangers, we depend on the government to secure our borders and to take reasonable steps to secure our safety from foreign threats. But, like the miners, if the canary dies, people here are on notice of the risk to their lives and need to take immediate action to protect themselves and their families.

Anyone who thinks that ISIS and other Islamic jihadists are not doing everything in their power to infiltrate this country and kill as many Americans as they can, is a monumental fool. They have no business being anywhere near any government position of responsibility. These terrorists are the insidious poisonous gas that has already found its way into the country, even if undetected.

We cannot predict exactly when, and where, another terrorist attack will occur here. It could be at another theater, perhaps a Broadway play or the Kennedy Center; it could be on a bright fall day at a football stadium in Michigan; it could be at your local church, synagogue, or kindergarten. But it will happen.

It therefore is up to the miners – we the people – to take heed of the dead Russian canaries and do everything we can to protect ourselves and our families until such time as we can replace this mine owner with a new Administration.