It began with hinkley, making national headlines from Lubbock, Texas. Toss in a few blurbs on weather, and nothing for decades. We of the high plains of Texas tend to feel insulated from all the madness in the world, even though bad things happen in the world, they can't happen here, it just isn't done.
Today we have been shown we are not immune. A Saudi native is appearing in Federal Court in Lubbock, to answer charges of Terrorism. I suppose it is a cultural bias to beleive we are immune to all the evil in the world today, that once you are on the caprock, that invisible bubble protects you from far away evil.
I admit that when I walk to the edge of field of cotton, or look up at the night sky, the rest of the world seems far away. Yet, it is that same attitude that will be our undoing. we must face fact, terrorism found a hidey hole in Lubbock, Texas. If that can happen, what else is possible? It is the height of arrorgance to think we are somehow above it all, and the height of folley to ignore the obvious, in the face of fact.
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