Posted on 07/25/2005 9:31:43 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Recently, despite the terrorist bombings in London and Egypt, much has been printed in columns or spoken on news shows against the Patriot Act in the United States and against the shooting of a potential terrorist in London. A young Brazilian man ran from the police who had tried to question him because he was wearing a heavy, bulky coat even though everyone one else was in shirtsleeves in the warm weather. He ran into, of all places, a subway entrance, jumping over a turnstile and into a subway train identical to the one that had killed over fifty people just days before.
Given how much ink is being spilled decrying the shooting of one suspect who refused to follow the orders of London police, along with new assaults on the renewal of the Patriot Act, I am forced to wonder if the Liberals have not already sent the following letter to terrorist organization:.
“Dear Terrorists:
We are so sorry that we have caused you to feel bad about us Christians, Jews, and Americans for past injustices. We apologize for our using our expertise in moving into the 21st century, leaving you to fend for yourself in the 16th century where your women are treated like property instead of human beings and you lack the education to escape poverty. We should have had you progress with us through time.
We also apologize for our government which wants to spy on your sleeper cells here in America without giving you any advance warning. The idea that our FBI agents may not tip you off before searching your house thus not giving you a chance to have deleted your computer disks or to have rid your home of your bomb-making materials before they get there is an anathema to us. But since it is a part and parcel of the Patriot Act, for now, we cannot stop it.
You will be happy to know, though, that we have scared the majority of Americans into worrying about what FBI agents may find you are studying in our libraries. Librarians are so concerned about your freedom to read about bomb-making, flying planes only after they are in the air, or even about how subways are constructed that that part of the Patriot Act may be muted for your convenience. At least we know that most libraries are on your side of confidentiality! We don’t think that what you type on a library computer will be recorded for our government to peruse.
We are also doing our best to keep our police officers more concerned about accidentally shooting a minority person than stopping terror. We have stopped all racial profiling even though we know that almost all bombers seem to be Middle Easterners with fraudulent passports or outdated visas. It is better that our police take the time to check Swedish and Norwegian blondes, and grandmothers in wheelchairs, than assume that all bombers of the future may be young Moslems. So what if this delays the prevention of terrorism? We must treat both the innocent and the criminal fairly and equally.
If the London police had failed to stop that suspect from escaping from them and he had blown himself up on the train killing everyone around him, at least we would have known then that he was guilty and London police did their almost best to stop him. It is always better to lose fifty innocent people to terrorism than to lose one innocent suspect to a police bullet!
Again, terrorists, we Liberals apologize for your mean treatment by our Conservatives. Please remember that we and our media friends helped gain Vietnam peace and we are also helping you to get back Iraq and to allow you your own choice of tribal government in the Middle East. So if you do take over this country, please be nice to your friends here. It will be very easy to tell who we are, by the way, as we will be the ones without any guns.
Sincerely, "The Liberals of America Front Organizations.”
My only worry is that such a letter might not be imaginary! How about you?
About the Writer: Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannett. He resides in Indio, California, where he writes op-eds that appear in several local newspapers. Lee receives e-mail at indiolee@dc.rr.com.
Afterwards, tell them.
Good point.
"If it isn't anti-Christ, it isn't liberal."
Do people really get angry at creationists?
...and 500,000 incarcerated and beaten in "reeducation" camps, and the virtual enslavement of 25 million citizens, and the frantic exodus of 2 million refugees, and the elimination of a free press, and the seizure of all private property, and the ongoing repression of religion, and 2 million starved and murdered in Cambodia, and... and... and...
Would some one post this on DUmmies' site? I would like to know how they would react.
Check out the evolution/creation posts in FR - your question answered in about three responses.
WOW, too bad he's retired. The media could sure use him about now.
great post
Yes.
Deleted and banned in thirty seconds or less, no doubt!
I'd call that a direct hit.
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