There's a part of me that feels somewhat guilty for returning to the blogosphere with a rant of such obvious and overexposed nature. Pat downs have been talked, written and debated to a numbing degree. But what interests me is not the sudden affection of the TSA and the media storm that has followed (and fueled) it. Rather, I haven't found anyone who raises two points.
1) The pat down assumes we are all guilty
When political correctness meets power, you get the TSA screening. Everyone is considered a potential threat, everyone is a potential terrorist: old, young, children, nuns, war veterans- we are all equally guilty. In biblical terms, it's an original sin on all mankind. In PC terms, it's a the belief that everyone is capable of hijacking a plane or smuggling a bomb onboard.
In college I was the only student in a feminist phlosophy class. I thought that as a philosophy major it would open my perspective to new theories and ideas. Instead, what I found was an angry aged lesbian manhater who taught that all men are potential rapists. Patricia Schroder would have fallen in love.
In that same vein, the Obama administration thinks all Americans are potential terrorists. History is not needed. Perspective is not wanted. Reagan once said that the solutions to our problems are not complex; they are just hard. The solution to the terrorist problem and the TSA screening process is not complex. It just needs a real leader to implement it because it is hard.
2) The pat down is a consequence of the Obama Administration's policy towards the middle east
The Obama administration has consistently dealt with terrorism as a crime. The recent unsuccessful civilian trial of Ahmed Ghailani is only the latest in a series of appeasements and misunderestimations of who and what militant islam is. When Obama announced the Freedom of the Press Act in 2009 in honor of the peaceful religion's beheading victim, he spoke of "the loss of Daniel Pearl". The loss- a magnificent use of the passive voice. Only, Daniel Pearl wasn't lost... he didn't die of cancer. He was murdered.
I thought of Mrs. Pearl who heard the President utter those words and wondered what she thought.
This is the attitude of the Obama administration since day 1. When terrorism became "man made disasters" and war on terror became "overseas contingency operations". When islam was credited with the arch and math. When the ground zero mosque is defended and Kahlid Sheikh mohammad is tried in NYC (maybe he will be found guilty of a crime other than conspiracy...)
And how has islam responded? With underwear bombers and Times Square attempts. With renewed efforts to detroy us. With Germany and England under highest security alerts in recent years. Where is the peace? Where is the understanding? Wasn't Obama supposed to wave his hand, lower the seas and restore the world order?
No- islam is in anti-American overdrive. So TSA is tapping everyone's crotch because everyone is guilty and islam hasn't backed down. Despite Obama's embarrassing behavior and nonsensical policies
When I go home on Thursday and get my pat down at Reagan Airport... I'll remember how the place's namesake dealt with evil: we win, they lose.
If only the current President could learn that lesson.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
The Islam Problem
I don't watch The View.
I have a job.
But I guess the other day on The View, Bill O'Reilly caused Whoopi and Joy to walk off the set because of his comments on the Ground Zero mosque and the fact that islam killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.
Truth can be a very divisive thing.
I was watching the news last week as 10 European Airports raised their threat level due to credible evidence that members of a certain religious persuasion were planning attacks. Rome remembers those attacks well and many died at Fiumicino Airport in 1986 when a certain faith no different than any other faith launched an attack on tourists.
While these airports were going to defcon 5... Geert Wilders stood trial for "hate speech" in Holland. See- his words made people sad. Like Whoopi and Joy. And that's not allowed in Holland.
Fort Hood bomber Major Hassan is also on trial for his crimes. I wrote about that crime here and here. He and underwear bomber Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab, who also stands trial for his attempt to bring down a plane, are more recent examples of people not at war with us because of religion.
(And I use the word "crime" above facetiously. Only the left think terrorism is a crime.)
I'm forgetting the Times Square bomber who luckily knew more about cologne and gold chains than wiring and fertilizer. Religion was not a factor in his efforts, either.
I'm waiting for this anti-muslim backlash in America. One would think it would have happened right after 9/11. Or after the first world trade center bombing. Or after the dozens of muslim terrorist attacks on Americans here and abroad. It just hasn't happened. America is not anti-muslim. America is not anti-anything.
But America's equality has translated into fairness. And fairness has become relativism. Relativism is dangerous. It is relative to think "any" religion can do what islam is doing to the world. They point to that pastor in Florida who wants to burn the koran as an example of radical Christianity. How that compares to beheading people on the internet, I do not understand.
Guess it's all relative.
The islam problem is real and pervasive. And the problem is not America's treatment of islam or muslim people, but their behavior in the west. Where are the moderate muslim leaders? Where are the moderate muslim people and communities? There is nothing moderate about demanding to build a mosque in a sensitive area. There is nothing moderate about their silence in the face of persistent, frequent attacks around the world and in our country.
The tap dance around political speech and sensitivity has made America very divisive. While Europe goes into protection mode, America's leftist government continues its ostrich positioning.
And that's a problem.
I have a job.
But I guess the other day on The View, Bill O'Reilly caused Whoopi and Joy to walk off the set because of his comments on the Ground Zero mosque and the fact that islam killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.
Truth can be a very divisive thing.
I was watching the news last week as 10 European Airports raised their threat level due to credible evidence that members of a certain religious persuasion were planning attacks. Rome remembers those attacks well and many died at Fiumicino Airport in 1986 when a certain faith no different than any other faith launched an attack on tourists.
While these airports were going to defcon 5... Geert Wilders stood trial for "hate speech" in Holland. See- his words made people sad. Like Whoopi and Joy. And that's not allowed in Holland.
Fort Hood bomber Major Hassan is also on trial for his crimes. I wrote about that crime here and here. He and underwear bomber Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab, who also stands trial for his attempt to bring down a plane, are more recent examples of people not at war with us because of religion.
(And I use the word "crime" above facetiously. Only the left think terrorism is a crime.)
I'm forgetting the Times Square bomber who luckily knew more about cologne and gold chains than wiring and fertilizer. Religion was not a factor in his efforts, either.
I'm waiting for this anti-muslim backlash in America. One would think it would have happened right after 9/11. Or after the first world trade center bombing. Or after the dozens of muslim terrorist attacks on Americans here and abroad. It just hasn't happened. America is not anti-muslim. America is not anti-anything.
But America's equality has translated into fairness. And fairness has become relativism. Relativism is dangerous. It is relative to think "any" religion can do what islam is doing to the world. They point to that pastor in Florida who wants to burn the koran as an example of radical Christianity. How that compares to beheading people on the internet, I do not understand.
Guess it's all relative.
The islam problem is real and pervasive. And the problem is not America's treatment of islam or muslim people, but their behavior in the west. Where are the moderate muslim leaders? Where are the moderate muslim people and communities? There is nothing moderate about demanding to build a mosque in a sensitive area. There is nothing moderate about their silence in the face of persistent, frequent attacks around the world and in our country.
The tap dance around political speech and sensitivity has made America very divisive. While Europe goes into protection mode, America's leftist government continues its ostrich positioning.
And that's a problem.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Trent Lott and the Party Crashers: an open letter
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott made an unnecessarily obnoxious comment over the summer.
"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them", he told the Washington Post.
Former Senator turned power broker lobbyist... what we don't need is a lot more of you and your lack of ideas. Shut up.
You held the leadership for critical years: years when we held the White House, the House and the Senate and we could have, should have, implemented a strategy to destroy the American leftists. We could have privatized much of government. We could have slashed spending; we could have reduced the size of the federal government by 20-30%; we could have reformed the tax code, social security, healthcare. We could have imploded the Department of Education, the EPA, the NEA. We could have given people back 20% of their hard-earned money, taken burdens off of small business, harnessed our own oil and shale and coal production.
We could have done that with a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. Instead, man who sucked at the teet of Government for 35 years, what did we get? What did we get??
Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton.
How did these candidates emerge? Their ideas are proven fallacies, their beliefs are categorically opposed to the American dreams. But they were seen as an alternative to failed leadership. They filled a vacuum of ideas.
You are that vacuum of ideas. Republicans worked so hard to protect their majorities with the likes of you and Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow that they did nothing with their majorities. Actually- not true. They did a great job at damaging the Republican party.
It took Barack Obama's socialist overreach to bring us back into the spotlight. Now we have the chance to present our ideas to the American people, not just as a counter to Barack Obama's recycled Carter Stagflation, but as a truth. Only dedicated and true-blooded Republicans will present these ideas boldly and without compromise.
Like a Senate full of Jim DeMints.
Tomorrow Mike Castle can win the Delaware primary. He's the GOP favorite. And I bet he's your choice, too. Only problem is that he's not a Republican. Well, maybe your kind of Republican. Christine O'Donnell is winning in the polls and the GOP is trying hard to destroy her because she's a Jim DeMint Republican.
And Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is thinking of running as an Independent. Like Charlie Crist. Two more loser Republicans that the voters were smart enough to reject but who are fighting hard to stay alive. For the party? Ha! Yeah. For the party. Same reason you Trent made those unneeded comments about us "Jim DeMint" Republicans.
Don't forget Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Talk Ill About Another Republican. That includes you, Senator. Sorry we aren't welcomed in your big tent, Trent. But your days are over. You had your year... your 35 years. Now it's our time.
Long live the Conservative Movement. To Marco and Joe and Christine: Godspeed.
"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them", he told the Washington Post.
Former Senator turned power broker lobbyist... what we don't need is a lot more of you and your lack of ideas. Shut up.
You held the leadership for critical years: years when we held the White House, the House and the Senate and we could have, should have, implemented a strategy to destroy the American leftists. We could have privatized much of government. We could have slashed spending; we could have reduced the size of the federal government by 20-30%; we could have reformed the tax code, social security, healthcare. We could have imploded the Department of Education, the EPA, the NEA. We could have given people back 20% of their hard-earned money, taken burdens off of small business, harnessed our own oil and shale and coal production.
We could have done that with a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. Instead, man who sucked at the teet of Government for 35 years, what did we get? What did we get??
Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton.
How did these candidates emerge? Their ideas are proven fallacies, their beliefs are categorically opposed to the American dreams. But they were seen as an alternative to failed leadership. They filled a vacuum of ideas.
You are that vacuum of ideas. Republicans worked so hard to protect their majorities with the likes of you and Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow that they did nothing with their majorities. Actually- not true. They did a great job at damaging the Republican party.
It took Barack Obama's socialist overreach to bring us back into the spotlight. Now we have the chance to present our ideas to the American people, not just as a counter to Barack Obama's recycled Carter Stagflation, but as a truth. Only dedicated and true-blooded Republicans will present these ideas boldly and without compromise.
Like a Senate full of Jim DeMints.
Tomorrow Mike Castle can win the Delaware primary. He's the GOP favorite. And I bet he's your choice, too. Only problem is that he's not a Republican. Well, maybe your kind of Republican. Christine O'Donnell is winning in the polls and the GOP is trying hard to destroy her because she's a Jim DeMint Republican.
And Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is thinking of running as an Independent. Like Charlie Crist. Two more loser Republicans that the voters were smart enough to reject but who are fighting hard to stay alive. For the party? Ha! Yeah. For the party. Same reason you Trent made those unneeded comments about us "Jim DeMint" Republicans.
Don't forget Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Talk Ill About Another Republican. That includes you, Senator. Sorry we aren't welcomed in your big tent, Trent. But your days are over. You had your year... your 35 years. Now it's our time.
Long live the Conservative Movement. To Marco and Joe and Christine: Godspeed.
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