Posted on 07/18/2005 9:15:13 AM PDT by Mr.Atos
Recently, I made the following comment regarding a posting by Wretchard at Belmont Club.
This is not necessarily an original thought, but as an anthropologist (among other things), one that I thoroughly believe. History is replete with cultures that were, at their core purveyors of the virtue of life. They nevertheless fell at the onslaught of aggressive hordes more consistent in their desire to see their enemy subjugated or dead. Europe itself very nearly dissolved before a solid fascist behemoth, held fast by the constitution of the Brits backed by the might of the U.S. Yet that caliber of integrity seems rare among Western Democracies today, even within the body politic of the United States. It has been replaced by the convenience of relative ascertions of perceptual imperatives passed along as personal truths peddled to popular consensus. Moral confusion in the ideology of Mankind is no less deadly than arsenic in the blood of a man. And there is no doubt that Western Civilization is suffering from its poisoning within, just as it comes under a deadly physical assault from without.
The Telegraph reports on how the BBC altered its coverage of the recent London attacks in order to avoid offensive labels.
The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments". Yet, as Tennapel points out,
That is true in a sense. But, it is less a judgment in favor of a particular value as much as total reckless abandon of all value. Forfeiting the semantic filter, everything is valid, and the distinction between butcher and victim eliminated from an assessment of righteous indignation. Paralysis ensues, and men capable of their physical defense are relegated to the status of shackled pigs in an abattoir. The judgment made therfore, by the BBC was not between conveying the term terrorist or bomber, but deciding between the premise of humans as men or pigs. To that end, I submit they are eternally confused.
What is being Left has been peddling poison as food for generations now, in the form of ideological diversity... the subversion of Western Civilization. And this is what they have given us after four decades of surrendering discrimination to tolerance without judgment: home grown jihadist with enough misdirected hatred, and misunderstood history, to undermine any fraction of self-esteem they extract from their particular sub-culture. (HT: Michelle Malkin)
Until last week, Khalaf also worked as a baggage screener at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. "I've been screening your bags for the past six months, and you don't even know it," said Khalaf, who also said Thursday that he is not really a terrorist and that his rhymes are exaggerations meant to gain publicity.
Perhaps Mr. Khalaf is simply pandering to publicity. But, how many of the listeners in his community know that? Youths deprived of their passion and esteem, weened on America-hatred, and bigotry, and imprisoned by the Left's marxist quixotic delusions of fairness within the basement of American culture, are fed bile in place of hope in the form of popular art and liberal education. Tolerance is demanded again without judgment and poison digested for sustenance. How many are so close to that chaotic edge already, waiting for this imbecile's shove? Four boys in Leeds got their shove at some point. And in time we'll find out the nature of their own conversion from angels to demons. From The Globe and Mail, (HT: Jihad Watch)
Pray that we never discover that our Leeds exists in similar form in Detroit, Chicago, St. Jo, Watts, Newark, Houston, Denver, Memphis, and Cleveland. We found it in Lodi, in time.
But you see, what is being Left has found it necessary to disassemble the foundations of Western Civilization in order to fashion their experimental Utopian chimera. The two simply are not compatible. Yet, far from the noble illusion, their delusion veils a frankenstein-like monstrosity in reality, that has proven invariably to be just as similarly at odds with human existence as Shelley's creature. And even now as the consequences of their vision are being revealed before them, what is being Left works faster to demolish boundaries between civility and barbarism.
Like fish in a tank attempting to transform their realm by first breaking the glass, what is being Left is flushing the sustaining medium of humanity through the breach, to be replaced by the corrosive and certain air of suicide.
America is well into the turning of the Cultural Revolution resulting in a maturation of sensibilities, and a renewed appreciation of ethics, morals, values, and integrity. As more and more 'good' citizens evaporate from Liberalism and the Democrat party, all that will be left is the filth... that which is untreatable, not compatible, will go nowhere else..
... and stinks unbearably of rot and decomposition.
What is being Left is a toxic poison that is attempting to feed itself to humanity... by force.
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