Posted on 01/30/2006 9:11:59 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
There is a madness in today’s liberal thinking. It insists on policies that tie our hands to defend ourselves while giving free reign to the jihadists intent on killing us. It is dangerous because it is becoming the thinking, and law, of the land, as well as the Western world.
Never before in history has a country and civilization made it impossible to defend itself from its enemies. Never before in history have the elites running a society done as much to cause national suicide.
It didn’t start yesterday. When the modern war of Jihad began decades ago, the liberal world told Israel it could not fire into terrorist camps because a few Moslem “innocents” might be killed. This despite the fact that Islamic women and children were purposely placed in terrorist camps by fellow Arabs so as to cause this precise predicament. When later, methods were devised to kill simply the terrorists, the liberal world found a way to condemn such procedures as “inhumane.”
Consequently, the Israelis devised a precision method of assassinating terrorist leaders only. One would have thought that a solution had arrived. Yet, again, the Europeans and American Left found this unacceptable. Basically, Israel was told that it had no right to defend itself even if such defense was pinpointed against the terrorist leader who had sent death squads upon innocent Israelis.
At the time, people thought it was only Israel whose self-defense was being hampered. However, many of the so-called “moral” limitations placed originally on Israel became battlefield precedents for the West’s later war on terrorism: harmful precedents, precedents designed to weaken us, as they have.
The EU and their liberal cohorts here in America now say that instead of assassination, the terrorist heads should be brought to trial. Oh yes, if found guilty, the Europeans tell us, terrorist leaders cannot be put to death because capital punishment is inhumane.
Worse, imprisoned guilty terrorists are traded away by frightened European governments in exchange for the latest European held hostage by shrewd jihadists. Witness, Germany. Effectively, then, the convicted terrorist simply bides his time, knowing his time in jail is limited.
However, due to new EU “understandings” of the law, promoted by liberals here in America, terrorists will probably never even be found guilty. Why? Because torture, they say, is forbidden. If a terrorist can prove that he was tortured, the case against him will be thrown out. Lawyers here in the U.S. defending terrorist “clients” have begun making such assertions in Court.
Harsh measures during interrogation are now, also, forbidden. If the eager ACLU attorney for the terrorist can cite harsh conditions, the evidence will be discarded. The suicidal Left is daily ratcheting up the legal requirements to prosecute jihadists. They are disallowing any and all means to defend ourselves.
The upshot: each time we failed, at that moment, to vigorously challenge the liberal reactions and assertions over events, we later found ourselves bound by newly established precedents -- bad, hand-tying precedents. Instead of fighting their assertions head on, we concede their “legal and moral” point and duck for cover. It seems our primary goal is to eschew hand-to-hand verbal combat. We’ve abandoned important long term principles of war for short term insulation from Leftist harangue.
We are now told that information showing how a terrorist planned and did commit a crime is often inadmissible. For example, if information was found by the President of the United States issuing a wire tap of the terrorist’s phone. If one has to choose between the newly manufactured “rights” of terrorist killers versus the Constitutional duty of the President to defend Americans, the Left will always choose the “right” of the terrorist to kill without punishment. Why be concerned with the defense of Americans when deep down, as a Leftist, you don’t identify as an American, anyway?
Basically, the Left, i.e., the enemies of America living within America, have made it impossible to fight jihadism. We can’t kill the enemy, we can’t spy on the enemy, we can’t interrogate the enemy, we can’t find the enemy guilty. The terrorist in the eyes of the liberal is more sacred than the President of the United States. To many on the Left, the terrorists are not the real enemy!
In effect, liberalism has tied us up so -- emotionally, legally, political correctly -- that we are now defenseless: made so not by the enemy but by ourselves, self-induced. This is madness. We will be murdered by outsiders because those within are opting for suicide. Our military and domestic police strength is meaningless if tied up in legalisms forbidding its use.
As to the enemy, he can do what he wants, and cannot be criticized for it. The European Union and certain judges in Australia and England have already declared it illegal to write opinion pieces or draw cartoons critical of elements of Islam. What are those elements that were criticized? “Honor killing” of women, where fathers and brothers kill daughters and sisters suspected of sexual impropriety; beheadings of those critical of Islam; vaginal mutilation of young women.
The simple revelation in public forums of these facets of Islamic life were deemed to be “hate speech,” “hate writing”. An enemy that cannot be criticized is an enemy that does not exist. Evidently, he is not an enemy and what he does is not objectionable. If the enemy does not exist, no war can be waged against him. If no war can be waged against him, there can never be victory.
Why the West allows itself to be guided by people who have a hate and guilt for their own culture yet an adoration of those wishing to destroy our culture, is a question historians will ask. Why did the yet-sane among us allow ourselves, and that which we love, to be destroyed by those among us with a psychological disorder? Why are we allowing these warped elitists to determine our future? We seem to be more afraid of the bark of the Left than we are of the sword of Islam.
My fantasy: Let all liberals live in an exclusive region of the country under their own guidelines. No surveillance of Al Quaida phones, no Patriot Act, no investigations worth salt of terrorists. Basically, open borders and “non-racist” immigration laws. Everything bilingual. Let this region live by every sanctimonious wish and law of the ACLU. No R.O.T.C. No heavy handed police, FBI, CIA, NSA. Let their President forever be that great warrior and defender Bill Clinton. May every facet of their defense be determined by the schmaltzy editorial board of the New York Times.
Let the rest of we common sense/conservatives live in a separate region. I’m willing to live by the consequences of our beliefs, those of the pages of HUMAN EVENTS. Let liberals in their region reap what they sow.
Want to bet who’ll be safer?
There are two kinds of leftists: the evil and the gullible.
They are stooges for the communists....but its not politically correct to say that today.
Worse in the 60 - 70s????
I was there in the 60s and 70s and can testify that things, the destruction of the constitution etc.....they have had a cumulative affect on America and now they have the NEA and ACLU as shills.
Unless we conservatives wake up soon and move from rhetoric to action - one day we will awaken and not recognize the America we love. Our kids are being indoctinated in schools....whats the next generation going to be like?????
When you realize that the far left wants to overthrow our constitutional form of government and replace it with a socialist utopian communist-derived system, it is easier to understand why they embrace all that is wrong for America.
Some may not be radical enuogh to help tear down the government, but collapse is their (not often shouted) goal.
Y'know, I've tried to talk to some of these "pacifists". Most of them have no idea what's really going on. It's like a big cult, with the loyal followers dancing to the music of their insane leaders. Hey, we'd ALL like to hold hands and sing kumbaya with the world. What they don't understand is the existence of evil. All the love and kindness in the world will never protect the innocent from it. I've grown weary of trying to make any sense with these people. I want to tell them to SHUT up, WAKE up, and GROW up.
Gee I guess it was OK for Hellarey to have all those FBI files then.
The fact that most Dems live better than 99% of the earth's denizens does not cross their self-pitying, ignorant brains. So they keep voting for true leftists who know how to manipulate the strings on their puppets, the average Dem voters.
That has been a fantasy of mine too. Give the Dems what they want: a country run exclusively by liberals and radical leftists with no conservatives to keep order. Inside one year most would run screaming to the conservative border demanding to be let back in after their time spent in the liberal nuthouse.
If someone abuses the old mule-skinner's expression "free rein" one more time, I think I'm going to go ballistic.
I just can't stand this persistent illiteracy!
The other two I see constantly are "ongoing" (a subliterate MacNamara-ism from the era of "commonality" and "modulated conflict") and "honing in" for "homing in".
Buy a vowel, guys!!
That's their problem with George Bush and the Republicans......the adults are in charge and the "children" want to re-live their rebellious youth.
The fact that most Dems live better than 99% of the earth's denizens does not cross their self-pitying, ignorant brains. So they keep voting for true leftists who know how to manipulate the strings on their puppets, the average Dem voters.
Well said; I'm filing your post. But your tagline is SILLY. ';^)o
You're welcome.
Here's a few more:
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder” -- Arnold Toynbee
"The real suicide bomb is multiculturalism." -- Mark Steyn
"Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide."-- Jack Kelly
The Constitution is not a Suicide Pact
Too good to miss bump
And that is the problem in a nutshell..... Public Schools!
What is the quickest remedy for this situation? Get your kids out of the Communist school system, and home school them! Yes I am aware that not every homeschool family or child is going to be the model citizen or student, but it is very rare that we hear anything to the contrary.
I reject that assertion, because it let's the left off too easy and excusing their positions.
I believe that many house wife's and children hold to the tenants of Liberalism because it seems FAIR, good, and Human. Let's all make nice now! We expect these to be passive.
But when grown men in congress or on university college campuses begin to spew this crap, you can bet they have a completely different reason for their positions, and it is never in the best interest of the collective. All non patriots need to be expelled!
That was worth repeating!
One could argue this is the state of the world now. The common sense/conservatives live in America while the rest of the world (Canada, France, Denmark, Belgium, et al) commit socialist suicide.
This is a vicious insult to the mentally disordered!
Unfortunately the far left wants to spread their insanity far and wide and will refuse to leave the rest of us alone.
Even if they are isolated and their policies fail miserably, they will just blame such failure on the rest of us (to witt, gun control in DC, Chicago, Canada, England--the problem is attributed to "gun-running" into these gun-free paradises).
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