Lando 
Posted on 08/06/2005 5:49:38 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
The inventors of political correctness, the lords of tolerance and restraint, the defenders of the indefensible, champions of understanding and global thinking, have just become the first in the world to run out of patience, understanding, and, yes, tolerance for terrorism.
After beating America over the head for years with their grandiose ideals of an all-inclusive social order, in the end, it is the Europeans who have come to their senses first.
According to a recent article by AP writer Jamey Keaten, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have started watching, arresting, and deporting Islamic clerics on the basis of their inflammatory speech alone. No longer is every form of speech tolerated in Europe. No longer will European leaders continue to watch their own innocent citizens die, as they protect their precious goal of political correctness and an open society where anything goes.
A few short weeks ago, this would have drawn fire from around the world. The ACLU would have gone international in its efforts to protect the rights of Islamic terrorists to breed more hate, death, and destruction. The United Nations would have called for another pointless resolution, this time aimed at the free world itself. A few years ago, these same Europeans were calling upon America to show tolerance, understanding, and restraint in the aftermath of 9/11.
Today, with their own dead, they have a different perspective. Today, these European leaders are searching for any minor infraction of any law including jaywalking, that will allow them to collect, detain, or deport any Muslim who isn’t publicly speaking out against terrorism. The dragnet in Europe far exceeds anything America has even yet dreamed of, in terms of fighting terror at its base of operations, in the mosques where they recruit, train, organize, and plot.
Such action in America would not only keep the ACLU busy for decades, it would draw even more hate from around the world via the United Nations and from home-grown half-wit liberals who insist that every idea under the sun be validated and tolerated, no mater how deadly it might be.
While American liberal Democrats take aim at American soldiers, American intelligence reports, American security efforts, American war efforts, American terror detention camps, and American officials across the political aisle, Europeans are taking aim at the terrorists themselves.
As British PM Blair announces plans to expand deportation powers in England to include clerics who preach Jihad, American Democrats like Kennedy and Durbin announce plans to toughen up on the American military and lighten up on terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay.
While European leaders seek new ways to expel Jihadists from their countries, American Democrats seek new ways to make political hay from the death of more American soldiers in Iraq.
There is no mistaking it, Middle Eastern Arabs, many of them Palestinians, are the target of the new European initiative to rid the streets of people preaching Jihad. Most of them have been found and arrested in area mosques, after publicly preaching death and destruction to the West for decades. It was once a tolerable offense, but no more.
One might say the new European initiative is a “preemptive” strike against Islamic terrorist activities that have not yet occurred. One could say that these European countries are “racially profiling” Middle Eastern Arabs as the target of their dragnet and that they are even trampling on the right of free speech in their efforts to secure their own lands.
Nobody is saying it, because Europe isn’t America. Only America could be guilty of such horrible crimes against humanity. Only in America is criminal or terrorist profiling called “racial profiling.” Only American preventative security measures are looked upon as Neanderthal “pre-emptive” war-mongering tactics.
The Europeams finally get it! They have figured out that no nation can survive an enemy within, free to recruit, train, organize and plot under protections intended only for the innocent legal citizens of a nation. They have figured out that some ideas can never be understood and should never be tolerated. They have finally learned that reckless blind political correctness comes at too high a price.
They are sorting out the details of who should be discriminately excluded from their open society as we speak.
Where should Europe deport these madmen to, America, land of the free, land of unbridled opportunity, even for terrorists? The one place on earth where Democrats, liberals, and the ACLU agree on the human rights of even known terrorists? Where the terrorists have protections even average citizens don’t have? The land of milk and honey and wide open borders? Why not?
Have we as a nation, not already established that everything goes here, and that all ideas are free, have equal merit, and must be tolerated? Or should America follow Europe’s new lead? That not quite everything goes? That neither we nor Europe, can afford to tolerate everything?
It seems that views that evolved in the liberal direction for decades may be evolving back toward some semblance of common sense, even in Europe of all places. It seems that once one begins to count body bags, suddenly, the matter becomes more personal, even more urgent.
What was once politically incorrect now becomes socially acceptable policy, once it’s clear to all that innocent life itself hangs in the balance.
Are Americans yet ready to defeat terrorism at its core? Clearly, European leaders are beginning to answer that question, but what about America? Is America preparing its own new deportation law? Have we even decided to close our borders yet, or properly profile terrorists rather than waste resources on useless random searches at our airports and train stations? Have we decided that terrorist activity is intolerable in America, even in a mosque?
Until we do, we are kidding ourselves. Europe is catching on. How long will it take, and how many more lives must be lost before America catches up? When will the American people decide what kind of society America is going to be? As for France and Germany, well, welcome to the war on terror!
Blair intends to “deport all hate-mongers.” Here in America, we’d have to start with liberals!
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Most excellent post. Thank you!
Good news if true. When the British deport Galloway,
I might believe it.
He forgot to mention that our borders are open, unprotected and state/local police are not permitted to attempt in any way to enforce our emigration laws.
Anyone want to bet that in 6 months the PC crowd will regain control? That the EU Commission will "discover" in their non-ratified "constitution" that EU countries are prohibited from deporting the radical clerics--because that dportation would itself be an "incitement to racial hatred"?
You may be correct, but I think it depends on how the Islamists respond. If they ramp up with more attacks (which would seem the natural response), there will be a tightening in the "rules of engagement."
I just got back from a trip to Europe, including time in London during the bombings. I can tell you the media is "all Muslims, all the time". The police get about 30 seconds to explain who they've actually caught, then the rest of the news hour goes to mullahs talking about how great and how put upon they are. I swear I am not making this up. They are vastly deeper into PC idiocy than we are, and the fact that they think the mildest measures against those we would chuck in Gitmo forever show they've gotten over it, just shows how far gone they actually are.
"to mullahs talking about how great and how put upon they are. "
And hence the reason for 'deporting and denying entry'!
Dark Skies, I hope you're correct that if the Muslims step up their attacks, that Europe will take action. My prediction is that the increased attacks will cause Europe to be more surrenderist, not less. They will use political correctness as yet another excuse to talk bold but do nothing.
Europe was quite comfortable with bribing Arab terrorists to bomb, kill, maim, other countries for a very long time -- just don't do it in Europe, please. Well, the chickens have come home to roost and Europe doesn't like it.
You may be correct, but I think it depends on how the Islamists respond. If they ramp up with more attacks (which would seem the natural response), there will be a tightening in the "rules of engagement."
I think you're right Dark. Even if PC returns in 6 months and everybody starts to get complacent, If the Muzzies coma back with their tricks, then it won't be as tough to dust off the "new" policy. Once it gets used once, it won;t be thrown away, but maybe put in the closet until it's needed again.
Granted, it will make liberals scream, whine and cry that the hammer should stay in the closet, but then, what doesn't make them do that now and loud anyway.
Still are. Hence, the ransoms being paid in Iraq, endangering others as long as they get their people back. 6 mill the french paid for their 3 people will buy a LOT of explosives, weapons and ordinance AND bankroll half a dozen operations at half a mil each.
I'd be interested in hearing more of your insights about Europe Jason.
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