Posted on 09/11/2002 11:55:00 AM PDT by petuniasevan
Appeasers, Apologists And The Legacy Of Terror
It’s been a year since the unthinkable happened. We felt so secure in Fortress America that we were more than a little complacent. And unlike societies on the margin of existence, ours has had the luxury to carry out social experimentation. This has been to our detriment, as individuals, as members of society, as Americans.
Through inertia and complacency we have allowed those who hate America and its freedoms to claim the minds of many who reside here. I’m not just talking about terrorists and their support network. No, this is about those who are the worst sort of enemy. Appeasers and apologists blaming America for the terrorist attacks and defending same.
I was a bookworm as a child; I didn’t make friends often or easily. Bullies found this skinny little girl an easy mark. I did try to get help from adults a few times. Know what they told me? Almost every one of them said, “You must be doing something to make him/her mad. What is it?” I of course had no answer. The only thing I had done “wrong” was to EXIST. My straight A report cards offended the bullies; so did my decrying their wrongdoing. But of course the bullies weren’t punished. Far from it. One teacher (may he rot) even delighted in siccing bullies on me, and encouraged one to write a report on how much fun it was for him to reduce me to tears. I never forgot this lesson in the 30 years since then.
Appeasers. They tell us that terrorists attack us because we’re too strong/use a lot of resources/are repressing certain factions/are harming children through sanctions. Never does one of the appeasers stop for a minute and ask what were those people in the World Trade Center, in the Pentagon, in the hijacked aircraft, doing to inflict the slightest harm on any of the places the terrorists called home. Reminds me of being blamed for the bullying I endured. I won’t endure it now. I don’t want to “understand” the terrorists and their ilk. I want their poisonous invective and their slaughtering ways eradicated from the face of the earth.
The hottest corner of hell is reserved for the apologists. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that anyone with a modicum of sanity could claim that we must adhere to one set of standards but that we must “respect cultural differences”. But we see it all the time, don’t we? We must go easy on the immigrant who barbecues your pet dog/beats his wife in the local grocery store for showing an inch of ankle/has his daughter brutally circumcised/chooses to live here and attack us. But how DARE we say anything against such barbarism and immorality.
The terrorists are EVIL. There. I’ve said it. The unfashionable word. “But we have to understand their motives based on...” NO! Moral relativism is a tool to destroy Western civilization in general, and America in particular. Note that other cultures are always given the benefit of the doubt for whatever revolting custom or habit they encourage. We Americans are always at fault. No matter that we have been the most generous country in history. I guess some people can’t stand that. Terrorists are evil; I’ve said that and I mean it. But guess what? Appeasers and apologists are a tool of evil. Some are bent on tearing this country apart; others are brainwashed into the role.
In the long run the appeasers/apologists do far more damage than terrorists ever dreamed of. If we give over our society to those who tell us America is “the oppressor”, we’ve done the job for them. Fight against such traitors. Send letters to your representatives at every level. Write to the local paper. Email family members. Attend 9/11 memorials. Speak up; voice your anger and concerns. Talk to your children.
It’s an uphill battle; we must regain ground the Founding Fathers wouldn’t have yielded. Make darn sure that the politicians you elect to office are non-appeasers. Refuse to give up Constitutional rights. Let Congress know you will not be beholden to the United Nations or any of its wretched members or appalling resolutions.
Already the media have bowdlerized and sanitized their references to 9/11. Their hope is that you will become complacent again. The NEA is making sure that your kids are taught a revised version of events. Are we going to slump back into the old familiar patterns and let evildoers flourish? Or will we REMEMBER the lesson so brutally taught on a late summer morning? Don’t let the victims’ deaths be in vain.
But I couldn't let today of all days pass without making a statement.
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
I rest my case.
If some sort of public statement had been proferred stating that the goal of Saudi's flavor of Islam was not to create a theocracy that will force nonmuslims to submit to Sharia, I'd be much less hawkish about Iraq and beyond...The ball has been in the Imams' court for an entire year...Has ANYONE seen a repudiation of the stated goal of Islam to produce a Caliphate under Sharia Law WHEREVER Muslims live and work??? Not a rhetorical question...Is there such a statement?
If there ever WERE any such statement against the Muslim goal of Caliphate/Sharia law, you can bet the authors are (choose one):
The Islamonazis are a tighter group than the Cosa Nostra or even Union Corse ever DREAMED of. The penalties for speaking out against Islamic-named excesses and atrocities are severe. Whole families can be wiped out or sold into slavery (Islam is peace, remember). Look at what happens to suspected "collaborators with Israel" in the Palestinian camps and villages.
But I suppose we're supposed to try to "understand the cultural differences", according to those oh-so-wise pundits at ABCCBSNBCCNN. Well, the only way the Islamists draw their map of the world is like thus: Countries they control are marked "Dar es Salaam", or Abode of Peace. Countries they don't control (like the USA) are marked "Dar al Harb", or Abode of War. For anyone with half a brain, that should explain their motives just fine. You know and I know, but what will it take to convince the sheeple?
SUPER piece 'tunia! Thank you. It'll take another attack to wake the sheeple and even then, the populace has been so seduced by the revisionists and liberal media I really despair &;-)
...Your post is RIGHT, and thank you.
On another level, and I hope I don't offend anyone with this, but I am way past tired of all the concentration on fretting and suffering, and the "I just can't get the awful event out of my mind" stuff. It's time for action. I'll bet back on Dec 7, 1942, there wasn't a display like yesterday's handwringing. Sorry, but too me, it was pathetic.
When I was a 13 year old boy in 1961, my father went off to work (on a Saturday), and on his way back home, stopped his car on a bridge and jumped off to his death. My brother, sister, and me were in school the following Monday....no flourishing, self-agrandizing counselling industry then......just a good, caring family getting things done, getting through the sadness.
I feel for the families and friends of the victims of WTC, but, enough is enough. This concentration on grief and suffering and the 'CLOSURE' trap is just too much to take. Back in WWII they were not sitting around feeling sorry for themselves in December of '42. They were getting down to business. This 'me generation' is too much to take.
We should be getting down to business too ! Enough crying, frustration, and self-pity. This is a somewhat shameful display!
p.s. If we're going to make suc a gaudy display over WTC, what's with the families and friends of the helpless victims of OKC? Where's the justice?
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