First and foremost, what we the people need is a laser that deflects DoD and DHS stupidity. And what I require is for incompetent imbeciles too idiotic to breathe to stop screwing with my regional airspace like it’s their personal pathological playground.
Days ago I could not even begin to joke—or tolerate inane jokes about—this subject, and indeed I pretty much lost any sense of humor 25 years ago in the wake of September 11 when it comes to anything dubbed “national security,” unfortunately often used as a convenient cover excuse. Because the only dire and dangerous threat to my or anyone’s personal physical security and emotional wellbeing is those actually in charge of keeping this nation somewhat safe.
If you’re wondering what I’m referring to, perhaps because you don’t live in the region subjected to utter chaos and confusion in the early morning on February 11—El Paso, TX and Southern NM—or maybe you were lucky enough to have blissfully slept through the unnecessary drama and trauma-inducing (for some of us) bullshit, I’ll let @JoJoFromJerz on social media explain:
“So, Pete Hegseth used an untested laser system powerful enough to down drones, blind pilots & damage planes without notifying the FAA, forcing Sean Duffy to shut down airspace over El Paso, all because they thought we were under attack by what turned out to be…party balloons?”
This is what you get when you put a drunk deviant dipshit in charge of national defense who is only serving, not the American people, but a tantrum-throwing, Adderall-snorting, demented sociopath wreaking having from the White House.
Not only did the imbecilic edict come via the FAA without using proper notification protocols to inform Congress—especially those with constituents directly affected in TX and NM—to shut down all air traffic in the region, but the order was to close the airspace for ten entire days. And that included any potential emergency medical aircraft.
So good luck if anyone in, say, Alamogordo, needed an emergency helicopter lift to an El Paso hospital after a traffic accident or domestic violent shooting—neither particularly unlikely in a clueless county run by former Cowboys for Trump enthusiasts. Because the shutdown order also contained a thuggish threat that any aircraft in the region would be immediately shot down.
I guess those of us on ground when that potentially occurred would be mere collateral damage? Our government under this administration sure does love its violent executions, or do they all think they’re all playing some insipid videogame for teenaged nitwits? As the saying goes, you can’t make this stuff up. But fiction writers on occasion attempt to.
In my Other Worldly novels, I’ve been snarking it up about invasive government drones and the goons who employ them (DHS and DoD) since Alienable Rights, published in 2020 but written entirely during the first administration of our pedophile president—who can’t even spell the words national security, much less comprehend their meaning.
In my latest book, Aliens Watch from 2025, Nevada officials (including a dangerous dimwit of a Clark County sheriff intent on becoming governor because fiction often mirrors eventual horrific reality) use multiple drones to attempt to spy on a remote alien headquarters in Valley of Fire State Park. In violation of state law, because of the danger and disruption caused by this abused technology, which too many people are naïve enough to think of as harmless toys.
My OW protagonist Rowan Layne is not fond of this particular piece of Fourth Amendment violating, wildlife hazard, noisy, and otherwise downright annoying technology. Therefore, Rowan might very well be a fan of lasers that shoot down drones, but only if extraterrestrial aliens are controlling the weaponry. Because they, unlike our horrifically all-too-human government officials, are actually concerned about protecting human life, not to mention flora and fauna, in my fictional world.
Anti-drone lasers fired at freaking party balloons by unprofessional and untrained pathological punks in real life? Not so much a fan of those. Hence, it’s particularly ironic and monumentally stupid that these experimental lasers being shot haphazardly next to a major airport in El Paso were supposedly aiming for a drug cartel drone. Except, how would that in any way ever justify endangering those living at ground level in the region?
Maybe it was in actuality a moronic attempted diversion from AG Bondi having to go before Congress that morning and deflect questions by being appallingly unprofessional? Can’t you just hear it? Look over here in El Paso where we killed the big bad drug drone with our fancy laser thingies! Nothing to see going on in DC this morning!
In Alienable Rights, the dumbass president throws a tantrum of epic proportion and actually fires a missile at Earth’s moon because aliens wouldn’t allow him to visit. He didn’t understand that the stealth fighter jet he ordered to fly him to the moon was not invisible—stealth does not mean Klingon cloaking device—and not capable of flying hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
Does this childish, gobsmacking stupidity sound familiar? Thank goodness in my novels, aliens have lasers that they do not use in a manner that puts humans in danger, but are employed to knock out invasive technology including drones, and are quite satisfyingly used to counter the president’s moon attack, among other incidents.
As for those pesky airspace-invading party balloons, it’s not surprising that the first thing that came to mind was the infamous Roswell, NM, UFO crash in 1947. You know, when local residents, local media, and the US military reported a downed flying saucer in the region, only to have the story redacted (pun intended) and changed to an insipid, irrational weather balloon excuse. One now ponders if perhaps our own government shot down that flying saucer and then proceeded to mightily backpedal on its violent stupidity. Maybe the Army thought it was a weather balloon when they shot at it. It doesn’t seem so preposterous of a supposition now, does it?
Except on February 11, it wasn’t well-trained air defense forces of the Army at Ft. Bliss firing those dangerous lasers, because they were apparently just as surprised and caught off guard as the FAA. So who was it?
None other than—you had to see this coming with a situation occurring so close to the Mexican border—Customs and Border Protection personnel under the auspices of DHS, firing lasers “on loan” from…DoD. This is precisely what happens when Congress ushers in an alcoholic misogynist Nazi-knockoff jerkoff at the helm of the Pentagon to placate a presidential administration whose sole purpose involves covering up crimes, including murder, and terrorizing Americans to do so. And our Border Patrol is pathologically out of control. All the more reason they need to be out of funding. Permanently.
One wonders if senators who voted for this SecDef numbskull nominee regret it? Not to mention their support of Fascist Barbie Noem cosplaying at the helm of DHS. Including Democrat turncoats who somehow decided that a man-boy with white supremacist tattoos was a good fit in a position of national security, along with a woman who is proud of shooting her dog in the face, and ICE agents under her control doing the same to human beings.
Are these traitorous members of Congress all just hoping their names won’t be revealed in the Epstein files? Why else would any elected official continue to support this deadly insanity? Or did they somehow confuse national security with Christian nationalism while they’ve been busy with the business of destroying our democracy?
Let’s face it. This administration, this entire government currently controlled by the Republican Party drunk on power, is that corrupt, that conniving, that careless, and that astoundingly stupid. And anyone who thinks we’re now “safe” in the region of El Paso and Southern NM simply because this inept airspace closure was quickly lifted is flat out missing the point.
Wake up and smell the manipulation. Chaos and confusion is the point of fascism. And it’s not funny. Not even close. Truth is, I still can’t joke about it and never will, having lived through 9/11—but not exactly surviving unscathed.
In the world in which we currently reside, nothing is benign, and nothing is a mere accident when it comes to acts of terrorism, especially of the domestic kind. This isn’t the Land of Oz. But there is an apparent pedophile with that name, his ties to pervert Epstein recently revealed, serving as the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, no less. Maybe they think he’s safe working around seniors as opposed to sex-trafficked children?
We all must take this seriously, because these are not serious people, but they are absolutely sick to their core. You don’t just shoot things out of the sky without considering the fallout on the ground. Unless you’re an inhumane destructive monster who is proud to be willfully, and hatefully, dangerously stupid.