Sarah Palin Was Right #24: Gary P. Jackson on Energy Security

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Gary P. Jackson, in an op-ed for The Cyrpress Times, says that the Christmas Day attempt to blow an airliner and the three hundred souls aboard to Kingdom Come highlights not only our troubling homeland security issues, but the matter of energy independence (or energy security) as well. This is an issue that Sarah Palin has been trying to warn the nation about for years:

"Of course, Sarah’s message on energy independence isn’t just an economic one. Now it’s true, we send between $700 billion and $1 trillion dollars annually overseas. The problem is many times it’s to nations that not only hate us, but use our own dollars to fund efforts to undermine us as a nation. In other words, they use our dollars to fund terror, worldwide, against the United States, and our allies."

And Jackson points out that the problem of energy security is not limited to just one geographic part of the world:

"There are other nations, such as Venezuela, who are teaming up with bad actors like Iran, and Russia, forming alliances that will further weaken the United States, and her allies. These relationships will also allow Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to exert power over weaker South American states, thus spreading communism and further destroying what freedoms people in that region have. It will be a disaster."

All of which makes Sarah Palin's advocacy for domestic oil and gas drilling more than just common sense conservatism:

"Back in August the big talk was Petrobas, and the huge deal Obama made with the Brazilian Oil Giant. Obama “loaned” Petrobas $10 billion American tax payer dollars so they could drill offshore, something Obama and his thugs fight tooth and nail against in our own country."

"America is rich in oil, right off our own coast line, but we are told we will literally destroy the world, and all of mankind, plus all of the fishes in the sea, and the polar bears, of course, if we dare to drill for that oil."

"This made me wonder why, if drilling for our oil would be such a disaster, could one drill off the coast of Brazil without such harmful effects..."

"You see literally just days before our most corrupt president in the nation’s history was so generous with our money, his boss, George Soros, became the major stockholder in Petrobas! In fact, it became Soros’ largest holding. Funny how having Soros involved made all of the environmental concerns go away..."

But, as Jackson says, there’s much more, and you can read it all here.

- JP