Posted on 03/15/2006 5:11:37 PM PST by RWR8189
ARLINGTON, VA. -- The death of "peace activist" Tom Fox, and the threatened execution of the three others held with him in Iraq, is doubly tragic.
It is tragic whenever an innocent person is murdered. It is also tragic because the likelihood that the presence of Mr. Fox and his colleagues would change the attitude or behavior of their captors was zero to none.
That the "peace activists" believed their brand of Christianity would trump the fanatical Muslims who regarded them as infidels and worthy of death meant that Mr. Fox and the others would either be used for propaganda purposes by the enemies of freedom or made to sacrifice their lives like animals on an ancient altar in the furtherance of the fanatics' dream of a theocratic state. In this instance, they were used for both.
The motive of the activists was exposed in a statement from Christian Peacemaker Teams, under whose auspices Mr. Fox and the others traveled to Iraq. Spokeswoman Jessica Phillips said, "We believe that the root cause of the abduction of our colleagues is the U.S.- and British-led invasion and occupation of Iraq."
Strange thing about these peace movements: They rarely mobilize to oppose the killing, torture and imprisonment practiced by dictators. It is only when their own country attempts to end the oppression that the activists become active against America, not the initiators of evil. Peace, like happiness, is a byproduct, not a goal that can be unilaterally attained. Peace happens when evil is vanquished
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When fools coddle up to maniacs, the fools die. This is hardly unexpected. Hopefully, over time, the naive and delusional will wake up to reality.
Strange thing about these peace movements: They rarely mobilize to oppose the killing, torture and imprisonment practiced by dictators.
Cal Thomas -- brilliant, as usual
Still, the Islamofascists would have considered him an infidel precisely because he was NOT a Christian.
Remember, they kill Christians and Jews while reciting entirely different Koranic verses than they use when killing Infidels.
The "Peace Activists" by encouraging the murdering thugs of Islam have caused the death of many, including US servicemen. I will not mourn the death of someone who is complicit in murder.
Reminds me of the guy and his girlfriend who were buddies with bears. Until they got eaten.
Matthew 7:21
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:22
"Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
Matthew 7:23
"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
(NKJV)
I think that about says it all. May God rest the soul of Tom Fox, and forgive him his idiocies.
I am still baffled as to why anyone, at least any patriotic American, would be at all saddened by Fox's death.
Were we saddened when Qusay and Uday were killed? Are we saddened when a US predator takes out a house full of terrorists? Are we saddened when a US sniper picks off an insurgent or someone harboring one?
Fox was a traitor to his nation. He aligned himself with terrorists. He provided media cover to the enemy and made it harder for US forces to operate in theater.
Why should I be in the least bit saddened by Fox's death? Why is anyone?
Christian peace activists occupy an unfortunate no-man's land. When they're killed, the right has no sympathy for them because they're peaceniks. And the left has no sympathy because they're Christians. The death of a Christian peace activist goes relatively unmourned.
I just hope no troops are killed trying to rescue the activists from their own Useful Idiocy.
LOL, that is hilarious!
I always knew being stupid could get you killed ...
Tom Fox: "I come in peace!"
Terorists: "Then go in pieces."
The irony of course is that they are neither for peace nor Christian. Their deeds encourage evil and cause further division and strife. The lack of mourning for their wasted lives is fitting. Let us save our respects for heroes who die for us, not fools who die for an alien ideology.
Well, he did find eternal peace, but he didn't have to go all the way over there to find it.
That would be Timothy "I would be honored to end up as bear scat" Treadwell.
The Muslim faith is pushing us, and we are starting to understand what that religion is about, and we don't like it. We shouldn't! It's anti everything we know! I don't need to know another Muslim, I don't really care. They're nuts, just plain crazy. We are not like that. We can see the difference between "nuts" and "different", we allow that. "Nuts", just might get you killed, in the middle of the night in my living room.
His goal was to harass American soldiers on the very soil they were fighting on. It sounds like treason in my book. He gets no sympathy from me.
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Exactly. That is why I find it so odd that so many, often times very sensible right thinking people, feel the need to preface their comments about Fox by saying they are somehow saddened by his death.
Fox aligned himself with terrorists and was a traitor to his nation. I couldn't care less whether he really believed in his actions and thought he was doing the right thing. Jihadi's also obviously believe in their actions as evidenced by the fact they are willing to die for those beliefs. We don't weep at the death of jihadi terrorists, why should we feel sorry for the death of this Fox traitor?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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Check this out:
Tom's last journey
by Doug Pritchard
Our brother Tom has begun his final journey home.
He left Anaconda military base at Balat, Iraq, at dawn on Mar. 13 (9 p.m. EST, Mar. 12), and is expected to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware at 1 a.m. EST, Mar. 14.
CPT Toronto was originally informed by Canadian authorities at 1:30 p.m. EST Mar. 10, that a body had been found in Baghdad which was likely that of Tom Fox. An hour later, when the CPT Iraq team asked officials at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if they could come to identify the body, they were told that it had already left on a military transport for Dover. Officials had repeatedly assured the team over the previous three months that CPT would be able to accompany our colleagues home "if at all possible." They now said that their only focus was getting the body back to the USA as soon as possible. At 8 p.m. EST, the U.S. State Department confirmed the identity as Tom Fox based on fingerprints.
The next day, Mar. 11, at 10 a.m. EST, CPT Iraq learned that Tom's body was still at the Anaconda base at Balat. The U.S. Embassy arranged for Beth Pyles, a member of the CPT Iraq team, to travel to Anaconda, and she was able to keep vigil with Tom for the next 36 hours until his departure. Meanwhile, CPT members Rich Meyer and Anne Montgomery travelled to Dover, and have been in the vicinity since 5 p.m. Mar. 11, keeping vigil and awaiting Tom's arrival.
Pyles was present on the tarmac at Anaconda as Tom's coffin was loaded onto the plane for Dover. She reported that his coffin was draped in a U.S. flag. This is unusual for a civilian, but Tom may not have been uncomfortable with this since he had always called his nation to live out the high ideals which it professed. Iraqi detainees who die in U.S custody are also transported to Dover for autopsies and forensics. On this plane, right beside Tom's coffin, was the coffin of an Iraqi detainee. So Tom accompanied an Iraqi detainee in death, just as he had done so often in life.
At Tom's departure, Pyles read out from the gospel of John, "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it" (1:5). In honour of Tom's Iraqi companion, she spoke the words called out repeatedly from the mosques of Baghdad during the Shock and Awe bombing campaign in March 2003, "allah akhbar" (God is greater). She concluded the sending with words from the Jewish scriptures, "The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD" (Job 1:21).
Dawn broke. The contingent of Puerto Rican soldiers nearby saluted. The plane taxied away. Venus, the morning star, shone brightly overhead as the night faded away. Godspeed you, Tom, on your final journey home to your family and friends.
Doug Pritchard is a co-director of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=news.current_opinion
They undoubtedly thought it was safer to wait until Iraq was occupied by the very military whose presence they were opposing.
Mr. Fox would have better served the cause of peace if he had gone over to North Korea and pulled his act there. Of course, he wouldn't have lasted as long.
Two words for the late Mr. Fox and his like minded supporters:
Rachel Corrie...and all that is implied.
Cal Thomas
Since all of these purported "peace activists" knew this full well when they voluntarily entered Iraq, they themselves are clearly the "root cause" of both the abductions and their horrific deaths. It's a hard pill to swallow, but it is also undeniably the stark truth.
Darwin Award.
If we had more men like Mr. Fox, we would have fewer men like Mr. Fox.
He was brave, but a fool. I am thankful that then G-d made him a fool, he gave him a fool's face.
Good! The man was working against the United States thereby giving aid and comfort to the enemy and placing our troops over there in unnecessary danger. As far as I am concerned he got what he deserved.
They remind me of that priest in the original War of the Worlds film who got zapped to smithereens by the Martians.
Or Rachel Corrie.
The reason is because their cause HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH PEACE. It is a great LIE. They are lefties in PEACE drag. They are LIARS. I have read to much of their writings to know who these people really are. I am not fooled.
Thanks for the ping!
"We believe that the root cause of the abduction of our colleagues is the U.S.- and British-led invasion and occupation of Iraq." .....Umm, no. That was not the ROOT cause.
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