Cowardly Exercises in Freedom

Nietzche is Dead ^ | 16 Dec 08 | foutsc

[foutsc]

The shoe throwing incident could not have happened under the previous Iraqi regime. A reporter exercises his new found freedom by attacking the man responsible for bringing him that freedom. Yes, the Middle East is a complicated place.

This was not a brave act; it was a cowardly act. It's like the religion haters in the US who harass anti-gay marriage churchgoers or dunk a crucifix in a jar of urine and call it art. Try that in Europe with a Koran and see how far you get. These are not brave acts of free speech. Christians are easy targets because they don't cut heads off and burn down cities in a fervid rampage, foaming at the mouth and screaming all the while like a flaming pack of hemorrhoids.

No, Christians just shake their heads and move on. The Judeo-Christian God is too big to be insulted. As Cecil B. DeMille once said, "Man cannot break God's law, he can only break himself against God's law."

So throwing a shoe at President Bush was too easy. The president displayed some lightning quick reflexes, shook his head, and moved on. That Saddamite reporter will not suffer the fate of Iraqi reporters before him. He will not find himself chained to a lamppost in his neighborhood, bleeding out from the mouth because the government cut his offending tongue out. No, he will live to throw shoes another day. And that makes me happy. I am proud that we have carved out a place in a cauldron of hatred where people can express themselves without being killed for it.

Now, if that reporter, or any liberty lover, really wants to speak truth to power he could do it in lands uncontaminated by President Bush's hand. Let's see him throw a shoe at Egypt's Pharaoh Hosni Mubarak, Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad, or any member of the Iranian theocracy. That would be a brave statement.

[SERKIT]

Has Islam been insulted when Barry promised to “reboot” US relations with Muslims? Isn’t this reference to footwear deserving of rage, violence, and maybe even a loss of one’s head?

[foutsc]

LOL!

[dirtymac]

You people keep getting it wrong. It has been stated that the reporter hate George Bush because of the violence done in Iraq. That is just too stupid to beleive. Look at the regime that was in place before. So how could this guy be protesting what is actually an imporvement.

The is actually a conservative republican who was pissed off at what George Bush has done to conservatism, the election, capitalism, and this country’s economy. It is just too bad that he had to go all the way to Iraq to express his disaffection with GW.

[SkipW]

Yes, I agree that Christians just shake their heads and move on. The question is move on to where? Christians are publically reviled, and have been for years. It is getting worse. There are those who intend to remove Christianity from American society.

Not Islam or any other religion. Just Christianity. I am a Christian. I am also disgusted with the passivity of Christians who have allowed this unrelenting attack on our faith without a word of protest. We could have stopped this a long time ago. There are enough Christians to motivate politicians to call a time out on bashing Christianity. I believe that it is a disgrace that we have not taken a position on the stark hatred and contempt that is routinely thrown at us in this nation.