This past Saturday (26 August 2006) at our annual fun family outing at Six Flags Over Georgia I saw some things that gave me great pause for concern.  Perhaps they'll do the same for you.

Not being much of a rider, my primary job this year was keeping the grandson while the others did what they love so much, riding the rides. Keeping him was a great joy for me and required a certain amount of walking the park.  It was in these walks that I saw things that disturbed me.

First was the large number of apparently Hispanics - no doubt the majority being illegal that were walking around.  Large families, with many children.  Naturally they were speaking Spanish rather than English, but then why speak English when all they have to do is press 2 for Spanish?

As disconcerting as that was, it was the other observation that caused me serious concern.  As my grandson and I walked around, there were large groups of Middle Easterners walking around the park.  By large, I'm referring to groups of five to seven or larger.  Many of them, especially the women were dressed in their native clothing (i.e.,  burkhas). With dictionary.com defining burkha as "a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women" its fair to say that these Middle Easterners were probably Muslim.  They too were speaking their native tongue and not English and the bulk of them had cameras, and the picture taking was voluminous.

Let's see, Muslims.  Perpetrators of every major terrorist attack against the U.S., its citizens and its interests since the assasination of Rabbi Meir David Kahane. In fact, as Patrick Briley recently notes (http://newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick30.htm) they've probably been involved in every major terrorist incident.  His article also notes the fact that there are terror cells in the great state of OOOOOOklahoma that exist apparently with the government's blessing.  Wasn't there, probably, a suicide bombing attempt at the Oooooklahoma v. Kansas college football game last year in Norman?

If these large numbers of Muslims walking around Six Flags was not worrisome enough, what we saw later in the day was even more so.  As it got later in the day, we began to see many members of these large groups of Muslims with "tribal colors" on their face.  A significant number of them had what could only be described as "colors" painted on their face.  It didn't appear to be permanent, but it did remind this old educator, trainer and copper of the tats that appear on so many street gangsters and right wing terrorists.  Was this a sense of unity among the group members?  Was this a signal to other group members?  Was this some kind of unique identifier?  All good questions I think, and something to wonder about.  Hmmmm, large numbers of similar individuals talking in a unique language and wearing colors - remind you of anything?

So, let's review.  At Six Flags Over Georgia, an amusment park, there were large numbers of no doubt illegals and more importantly a large number of Muslims walking around showing their colors and taking lots of pictures.  We know that Muslims engage in recon before an attack (including the taking of pictures).  We know that there are large numbers of terrorist cells throughout the country (cf. Kushner, Holy War).  We know that an amusement park, like a school or a mall or a hospital is considered a soft target and many of us believe the next attack will be on a soft target(s).

Should we be concerned?  I am, and in the words of O'Reilly, "What Say You?"