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4 Friday, May 31, 2013 v Krum News v www.lemonspublications.com v email: krum@lemonspublications.comBy John CallarmanThere aresome thingsI do not wantto knowIn November 2010when WikiLeaks releasedsecret U.S. State Departmentcables, the Krumudgeonlooked at the apparentscandal with mixed emotions.As a newsman for mostof my life, primarily on thelocal level, I’ve been awarethat government agencies atevery level have establishedthe concept of classifieddocuments that the generalpublic should not be allowedto see. Unfortunately, far toooften, those governmentalagencies have classified documentsbased upon how embarrassingthey might be togovernment personnel ratherthan legitimate securityreasons.The tendency to hidecontroversial opinions thatlead to disputed decisionsfrom the voting public, alongwith diligent news media attemptsto uncover cover-ups,have resulted in most states,The Krum News is published weekly, each Friday, byLemons Publications Inc. The Krum News is distributedFREE to newsstands throughout Krum each Thursdayafternoon. You can find it at any convenience store,bank, restaurant, and at other local businesses.Subscriptions for home delivery are available for $20 peryear for residents in Krum (zip code 76249) and $23 peryear for those outside of Krum.The staff of the Krum News includes:THE KRUMUDGEONas well as the federal government,establishing Freedomof Information and OpenMeetings laws that give verynarrow parameters to whatcan be discussed behindclosed doors or what documentscan be withheld fromthe general public.As a newsman, primarilyat the local level, Ihave not been in a positionto have, put in my lap, thekind of top-secret informationthat should not becomepublic knowledge,information that could, forexample, put the lives ofsecret government agents injeopardy. The problem thatarises with attaching a topsecret classification to government-basedinformationis when decision makers’embarrassment becomes themain factor in applying thatclassification.Those U.S. StateDepartment cables thatWikiLeaks obtained andcirculated contained a lot ofmaterial that should neverhave been classified, but thecables also contained vitalinformation that put America’sbest interests in jeopardy.Our strategies, and,particularly, our implementationof those strategies, toinfiltrate and neutralize terroristorganizations aroundthe world qualifies as informationthat should notbe available to the generalpublic.The mixed emotions Ifelt about WikiLeaks camefrom the sense that our intelligenceagencies had a betterhandle on potential terroristactivities than I had beenable to guess from the scantinformation that was availableto me as an avid readerof a variety of news reports.The problem is that anythingI might know aboutour intelligence operations,our enemies would know… because the knowledgewould be somewhere outthere in the public domain.An essay by syndicatedcolumnist Leonard PittsJr., headlined “The powerof terrorism lies in its psychologicaleffect,” found inSunday’s Houston Chronicle,and an article in the“Britain” section of the May25 edition of “The Economist,”headlined “An atrocityin London, Return to oldstyleterror,” point out howwell America and Englandhave done to prevent massdeaths caused by terroristson the soil of the world’smajor English-speaking nations.The Boston Marathonbombs were the first “successful”terrorist attack onU.S. soil since September11, 2001, with one possibleexception. The slaying of aBritish soldier last week inLondon by two terroristswho posed afterward forbystanders with cellphonecameras was the first “successful”terrorist attack onthe British mainland sinceJuly 2005 when bus and subwayattacks killed 52 peopleand hurt 770-plus.How many potential“lone wolf ” terrorist attackshave we, America and GreatBritain, thwarted? We knowof a few, but do we out-ofthe-loop,grassroots Americansknow of others thathave been halted becauseour security people learnedof them?What does commonsense tell us?It tells the Krumudgeonthat there are many more,as “The Economist” putsit, “desperate, disorganizedyoung men … looking for apurpose in their lives and …susceptible to religious extremism”in both the UnitedKingdom and the UnitedStates.“Sometimes, in the heatof visceral revulsion, we forgetan essential truth aboutterrorism,” Pitts writes.“Namely, that the peoplewho do these things are theopposite of powerful. Nonstatesponsored terror is atactic chosen almost exclusivelyby the impotent.”Pitts offered lessonslearned by Americans inthe Civil War and Britonsin World War II as a significantperspective on theinability of non-state sponsoredterror to destroy eithercountry:“The United Statesonce tore itself in half andsurvived the wound. Couldit really be destroyed by menusing airliners as guidedmissiles? Britain was oncebombarded senseless foreight months straight andlived to tell the tale. Could itreally be broken by two maniacswith machetes?”“Of course not,” Pittsanswered his own question.But past and potentialrandom acts of terror havebeen “successful” in onemajor sense, Pitts implies,by making us “appalled,frightened, irrational and,most of all, convinced thatwe are next and nowhere issafe.”Referring to both theBoston and London actsof terrorism, “The Economist”notes that, “Attacksof this kind are much harderto prevent than are morecomplex plots that involveterrorist networks providingtraining and funding.But they have become morecommon as intelligence onsuch networks has improvedand American drone attackshave taken their toll onal-Qaeda bases in Pakistan’stribal areas.”There is, of course, avast difference between interceptingrandom acts ofterror on American and Britishsoil than there is in preparingfor “complex plotsthat involve terrorist networks”in places like Libya,Somalia, Yemen, and similarMiddle East and NorthAfrican outposts. Benghaziwasn’t the first time Americandiplomats were murderedin Islamic-orientedcountries.The Krumudgeon hasbeen aware, since 1956, ofthe potential for state-sponsoredterror inspired byerroneous interpretationsof the “word” of whatevergod might be perceived bywhatever state leadership tocause real damage. If a nationruled by jihadists whobelieve that killing non-believersis their ticket to everlastinglife were to gaincontrol of even a handful ofnuclear weapons, those rulerswould not fear annihilationin retaliation.What is hard for manyof us to do is to differentiatebetween those with suchradical, uncivilized beliefsand those who have escapedfrom the ignorance of theDark Ages. What is hard,I suspect, for many of theMuslim faith to do mightbe to differentiate betweenthose Christians who haveestablished America as aland of religious freedomand those who conductedthe Crusades between 1,000and 500 years ago.The Krumudgeon seesa parallel, too, between jihadistacts of terror and therandom mass killings bymentally disturbed individualssuch as at Columbineor Newtown. The parallelis not that the latter slayingswere terrorism but that theyare as difficult to prevent.How “The Economist”summarized the hackingdeath of the British soldierin London last week couldapply to the mass slayingsthat killed children in Coloradoand Connecticut:“The real significanceof this horrible incident isthat it is a reminder of howlittle it takes for somethingthis shocking to happen.The security services, for alltheir success in recent years,can’t win every time.”The exception referredto above, of course, is theslaying in 2009 at Fort Hoodby a depraved Army psychiatristof 12 military personnel,plus the wounding of 30more. There was reluctanceon the part of authoritiesfour years ago to identifythe slayers’ action as an actof terrorism, which speaksmore of dialectics than oflogic, as, I suppose, wouldbe the decision not to usethe word “alleged” in thisparagraph.Pitts cited a couple ofexamples of individual reactionto 9/11 in his essay;a lady who told him shewould never enter a skyscraperagain, and his AuntRuth, who, during the anthraxscare, required his uncleto open all mail on thefront lawn.“I am also thinking ofthe country itself,” Pitts continued,“which, in responseto the 9/11 attacks launchedtwo wars … at a ruinouscost in lives, treasure andcredibility that will haunt usfor years.”When it comes to applyingthe word “successful” toterrorist activity, I wouldbe inclined to suspect thatOsama bin-Laden went tohis grave believing that 9/11was highly successful. Thelives of American soldiers,the trillion-plus dollars wehave spent in Iraq and Afghanistanand the unreststirred up in other parts ofthe Middle East and NorthAfrica have had a long-termdisruptive effect far beyondthe comparatively tiny costof financing 9/11.Pitts sums it up betterthan the Krumudgeon can:“Their most lasting violenceis not physical, butpsychological — the impositionof fear, the loss of security.“We cannot controlwhat such people do. Butwe can control our reactionthereto. … the only powerthey have is the power wegive them.”To which the Krumdgeonadds that we mustcontinue to try to identifypotential perpetrators on thehome front and fortify ourfacilities abroad.But I do not want toknow how we are doing this,because, if I know, our enemiescan find out, and candevise methods of thwartingour defenses.Beware, America, butdon’t be afraid.Finally, a word of adviceto our government:Don’t tell me all the thingsthat we are doing to protectAmericans at home andabroad, but don’t lie to meabout the occasional failures.The Krumudgeoncan be reached atJohnCallarman@msn.comNow Enrolling…2013 KISDSummer FUN ProgramJune 10-August 16Lee Ann LemonsPublisherEmail: lee@lemonspublications.comBlake LemonsSportsEmail: blake@lemonspublications.comJulie StokesAdvertising DirectorEmail: julie@lemonspublications.comJohn CallarmanVolunteer WriterEmail: JohnCallarman@msn.comTo submit news items to the Krum News,please email:krum@lemonspublications.comThe weekly deadline to submit news articles, photos, andletters to the editor is each Tuesday at 5 p.m. Items acceptedafter the deadline will be published only as timeand space permit. Publication of all items is at the solediscretion of the publisher.The weekly deadline to submit display advertising iseach Tuesday at Noon. The weekly deadline to submit aclassified ad is each Wednesday at 2 p.m.LEMONS PUBLICATIONS, INC.Sanger News | Krum News | Denton Business Journal412 Bolivar St. on the square in downtown Sanger(inside Steve Robinson Photography,next door to Radio Shack)Mailing Address:PO Box 250, Sanger TX 76266940-458-8515 phone940-458-8011 faxWebsite: www.lemonspublications.comAny erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any individual, firmor corporation may be gladly corrected upon being called to the publisher’s attention. Thepublisher is not responsible for copy omissions, typographical errors or any unintentional errorthat occurs and will correct them once it is brought to attention. 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5 Friday, May 31, 2013 v Krum News v www.lemonspublications.com v email: krum@lemonspublications.comKHS athletes and athletic directorhonored at local sports banquetKrum High Schoolathlete Julia Schmaltz wasnamed Female Athlete ofthe Year on May 20 at theGreater Denton SportsCommission annual awardsbanquet. Krum’s TravisWhite and head coach GaryRobinson were also honored.Held at the OakmontCountry Club in Corinth,the event featured guestspeaker Stephen Howard,a former NBA player whois now an ESPN collegebasketball analyst and theNew Orleans Hornets studioanalyst, as well as anaward-winning motivationalspeaker.Each year, the GDSCbanquet honors threemale and three female student-athletesin DentonCounty, as well as areacoaches. The student recipientsreceive college scholarshipmoney from the organization.Schmaltz, whose accomplishmentsfor the LadyCats include starring as anall-state basketball playerand District 9-3A MVPas well as earning regionalberths in both track andtennis, was presented withthe Female Athlete of theYear award. She was alsorecently recognized as aWFAA Scholar Athlete ofthe Week.KHS senior TravisWhite was also named runner-upfor the Male Athleteof the Year award, wrappingup an outstanding highschool athletic career, whichincluded being selected forthe Childress Rotary GreenbeltBowl. White has committedto playing collegeball with Wayland BaptistUniversity following an allstateseason as safety for theBobcats.In addition to studentawards and scholarships,other awards given out atthe banquet include HighSchool Coach of the Year,Collegiate Coach of theYear, Youth Sports Volunteerof the Year, the JimBateman Award and theAll-Sports Trophy, given tothe top high school athleticprogram of the year in DentonCounty.From those awards,Krum athletic director andhead football coach GaryRobinson was selected asthe recipient of the HighSchool Coach of the Year.Under Robinson’s direction,the football team postedan impressive 9-2 seasonin their UIL debut. Robinsonand his staff were alsoawarded the District 9-3ACo-Coaching Staff of theYear award earlier this year.Congratulations to theKrum High School athletesand coaches on an outstandingyear.Summer Is Around The Corner!Summer Is Around The Corner!Help Help Your Pet Beat The Heat and andSchedule Their Grooming Today! 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