After reading a recent headline about our current enemy, I feel like I am watching a movie. Possibly a very bad movie science fiction flick from the past.

Let’s go back say, 30 years.

In 1978, the internet was not even a reality. It certainly wasn’t a household tool. Microsoft is three years old. Apple Computer is not even 2 years old. Sweden is the first country to ban aerosol sprays. Bell Bottoms are still “hot”. Well, at least warm. Pete Rose gets his 3000th hit. Ted Bundy is captured in Florida, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. President Carter is trying to deal with high inflation, and while the Iranian Hostage Crisis will not become a reality for another year, he prepares to make up for it ahead of time, and save his “legacy”, by authorizing the Susan B. Anthony Dollar- which is sure to become a hit with the nation. (Ed: Many years later, of course, he will erase all doubt he is a principle “free” loon-liberal by breaking nearly all of the “former President” protocols about keeping ones mouth shut, both at home, and abroad.)

And, finally, “Reverend” Jim Jones leads 918 to their death drinking poison Kool-Aid, which marks the birth of the Liberal Democrat movement.

You are with your girlfriend, probably both of you wearing bell bottoms, at the local movie theater. You have already seen Animal House, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and both Grease AND Saturday Night Fever. Burnt out on space movies and John Travolta (especially that little movie about that stupidly gay sure to die music movement called “Disco”), you opt for a Science Fiction flick.

The feature is called “Radical Raucous Ragheads”, and stars one of the members of ZZ Top as “Hey-Man al Zawa-Hairy”, the turban wearing bad boy from the sand bearing wasteland that is the Persian Gulf. Chuck Norris plays the CIA operative “Rock Wayne”.

Halfway through the movie, the bad boy hippie-in-a-turban illustrates the use of technology that is, to you, mind bending. Using technologies called “internet”, “wireless”, and “bluetooth”, this bespectacled towel headed version of the “Professor” from Gilligan’s Island introduces communication to the world about his terror network. In one broadcast to the world, he states that his organization, called “I’ll Killya”, is going to start using video messages on something called a “cell phone”. This phone, apparently, is the new communication device, is wireless, and you take it everywhere - including movies, funerals, and other places people are supposed to be respectful and quiet. The “cell” phone is small, about the size of a wallet (even SMALLER than that in the movie, if you can believe it!!!), and is a wireless computer/phone that has… get this… no WIRES, no Antenna, and, a VIDEO SCREEN!!!

“Amazing!” you think. Your girlfriend leans over to you and whispers to you, “They must call these things “cell” phones because it is how the terrorist cells TALK to one another!!!”

You think, “What an amazing world, the future is…”

Welcome to ‘now’.

AP reports that Al Qaida is claiming that their video messages will be available for download and playback on cell phones. This was posted Friday by Al Qaida’s media wing, al-Sahab (which means “New York Times”, roughly translated). Eight videos were made available as of Saturday, one of which was a tribute to Abu Musab al Zarqawi (which means “You can kill me, but please don’t waterboard me”).

In the written statement from al Zawahri, the #2 Al Qaida animal, he stated “I ask God for the men of jihadi media to spread the message of Islam and monotheism to the world and spread real awareness to the people of the nations.”

Wow. Asking the media to do your bidding, and spread your message; “real” awareness; to the people. Sounds a little like the liberal media of this country.

The real message here is, when he references “spread the message of Islam and monotheism”, what he really means is “there is one God, ours, and our message is, convert or die.” This kind of “message”, whether or not you accept my translation, is a message of hatred, conversion, and purification. Hitler comes to mind.

As much as atheists and other haters of religion in this Country might hate the religious right here at home, the last thing I hear the religious right here do is threaten your actual right to live. In fact, I would claim that the real threat to your the right of people to live is more likely coming from the abortion supporting left.

I would have never believed, as a kid, that one day I would live in a world where terrorists from the sand armpit of the world would be threatening this fine Country, and using video messages on cell phones to communicate and spread their illness.

But believe it. And think about it, when you think about who to vote for for President, and every other office in this land. From local Sheriff to County Prosecutor to Mayor, to President, we better be paying attention. We ALL better be.