Daily Kos Writer: Republican Response to Paris Attacks 'More Tragic' Than Attacks Themselves

NewsBusters.org ^ | November 24, 2015 | Tom Johnson

[Kaslin]

Liberals sometimes say that law enforcement’s approach to the Mafia offers a model for how to deal with jihadists, even though the latter tend not to limit their demands to protection money. This past Sunday, Egberto Willies of Daily Kos claimed that if terrorist attacks were “treated as they should be, like organized crime, it would neuter ISIS. After all…the group is no more powerful than a large band of thugs with weapons.”

But crimefighting methods weren’t the main concern of Willies’s piece. Rather, it was his belief that “neocons” wish to exploit fear of terrorism in order to start a war which would “transfer wealth from the masses to the few owners of the defense industrial complex.” Willies also ranted that conservatives don’t take a back seat to Islamist fanatics when it comes to lethality: “America's right-wing mass killers and gang bangers have killed more people in the West than ISIS has.”

From the post (bolding added):

The act of terrorism in Paris, France, that killed 132 people and counting is tragic. What’s more tragic? The response by the United States' media and the neocon-driven Republican Party…

The drumbeat to force President Obama into overreaction mode is already at full force…

[joshua c]

Has there ever been a mafia suicide bomber? Ever?

[Russ]

There’s the mental disease of liberalism rearing its ugly head.

[Steely Tom]

Daily Kos Writer: Republican Response in Paris Attacks 'More Tragic' Than Attacks Themselves

If you care about your political agenda more than you care about human beings, I suppose that could be true.

[Kaslin]

I’ve never heard of one. Have you?

[Fido969]

The Paris attacks showed Obama to be a liar, that’s what their problem is.

[Kaslin]

You said it.

[Kaslin]

Exactly

[kcvl]

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. Egberto is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. He believes that we must get away from the current policies that reward those who simply move money/capital and produce nothing tangible for our society. If a change in policy does not occur, America will be no different than many oligarchic societies where a few are able to accumulate wealth while the rest are left out because it is mathematically impossible to catch up.

[kcvl]

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Egberto Willies ‏@EgbertoWillies · Nov 22
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[The Toll]

They can say this because they know the media in this country would never bring it back on them when American’s get incinerated at a marathon.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Wait...I thought we CAUSED the attack?!? Which is it, my liberal frenemies, did we cause it, or is our response more tragic?

[Old Sarge]

I don’t willingly go to a website filled with people who wish me dead...

[Jack Hammer]

Clearly this writer is an idiot, but you have to wonder if he’s even sane.

[lowbridge]

“Egberto Willies of Daily Kos claimed that if terrorist attacks were “treated as they should be, like organized crime, it would neuter ISIS”

Idiot. This is what Clinton did. Treated Al-Qaeda like a crime problem instead of as a military and national security problem. End result: 9/11

[Titus-Maximus]

He has had 7 years of Obama’s apologies, and their terrorism has become worse, not better. He and his ilk do not understand Islam, nor Isis nor Al Queda, and that particular ignorant person is not in a position to offer his opinions to anyone other than himself.

Nor will he read ISIS’ own writings that fully describe their motivations - because these motivations run counter to their liberal/left moronic narrative of how the world behaves.

Islam as an enemy to the West is big and getting bigger and they have tens of millions who agree.

The tell tale lump on the testicles came during the moment of silence for the massacred French at the Turkish national soccer game. They booed France and screamed Allahu Akbar. The upper middle class of a supposed westernized Islamic nation just declared war and the moron liberals of the West refuse to listen.

[mojito]

The author of the Daily Kos piece is a barely literate (surprise) moron. It reads as if it were written by a verbose fifth-grader who had been listening in on his “progressive” parents and watching a bit too much MSNBC. No, I take that back: even MSNBC isn't this stupid, deluded or callous.

[Kaslin]

And that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave wants to do the same thing.

[Kaslin]

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, with a pea-sized brain

Much better

[Kaslin]

I don’t go to websites, filled with morons who wished me dead either. I got the article from Newsbuster. I didn’t even click on any of the links. Everyone knows there are kooks at the Daily Kos