Posted on 11/16/2009 10:46:01 AM PST by chaimke
We all agree that hate speech is despicable, regardless of its source; we fully agree that while a country’s majority should rule that country there must be respect, protection and representation for the minorities. Having said that, however, to use euphemisms for what should be stated outright will only confuse and obscure issues of true concern.
[...]The fear of appearing politically incorrect has now infected the highest echelons of our armed forces, our State Department, and myriad pandering politicians in Washington DC and the rest of the country. Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan gave many signals that disturbed some of his colleagues of what he was to do on November 5th. The fact remains that Army intelligence and some of his superiors were aware of his making contact with charismatic imam and former American, Anwar al-Awlaki, a top Al Qaieda recruiter.
Brigitte Gabriel, whom we’ve shown on these pages before, puts into words what few others have the courage to express. Ms. Gabriel speaks with righteous indignation about this country’s descent into suicidal irrationality:
Political Correctness can not come at the cost of safety, to bury one’s head in the sand, to fail to recognize a problem, not only exacerbates that problem but it accelerates its dangerous outcome
[...]What has changed in almost 20 years, that the unthinkable has now suddenly become the routine?
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomscost.net ...
Are we Americans so ashamed about this country’s achievements, are we scared of success, are our politicians sop hellbent on destroying us that they’ll protect the enemy rather than those who elected them?!?!?
APATHETIC, LAZY, IGNORANT, NEGLIENT, EVIL INTENT, WRONG IDEAS,CORRUPTION, EGO.CENTRIC,EGC.MANIA and other egregious mental states. How to wake them .... to reality.
Or we are lost as a free nation.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous self-serving higher education system and mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
It will not just ‘GO AWAY’. It has to be systematically replaced by young academicans who are enthralled with freedom and it’s philosphy and history.
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