Michael Berg And The Twisted Values Of Greens And Pacifists (Blathering Leftist Idiots Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 06/13/06 | Dennis Prager

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Apparently, being the parent of a child murdered by a Muslim terrorist gives one moral credibility. There is no other way to explain the vast attention paid to the ideas of Michael Berg, father of Nick Berg, the American who was slaughtered by the Islamic sadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That is also the only explanation for the all the attention Cindy Sheehan has received. It is not because of the intellectual and moral depth of her worldview. But the attention paid to Michael Berg has been very helpful in enabling many more people to understand the thinking and values of the Green Party -- and those on the left sympathetic to the Greens -- and of pacifism. Thinking and values that are, in a word, twisted.

Michael Berg is a Green Party candidate for Congress from the state of Delaware and a pacifist. According to The Associated Press and many other reports, Berg believes George W. Bush is more evil than Zarqawi. Berg said that the blame for most deaths in Iraq should be placed on President Bush, who he said is "more of a terrorist than Zarqawi."

Here is one example: "Zarqawi felt my son's breath on his hand as held the knife against his throat. Zarqawi had to look in his eyes when he did it. George Bush sits there glassy-eyed in his office with pieces of paper and condemns people to death. That to me is a real terrorist."

When asked on CNN about his reaction to the death of Zarqawi, he responded: "Well, my reaction is I'm sorry whenever any human being dies. Zarqawi is a human being."

The incredulous CNN interviewer, Soledad O'Brien, then asked Berg, "At some point, one would think, is there a moment when you say, 'I'm glad he's dead, the man who killed my son'?" Berg responded: "No. How can a human being be glad that another human being is dead?"

Thanks to such views, Berg has been nominated by the Green Party to be its candidate for Congress for the lone congressional seat in Delaware.

If the fact that a man who regards his son's butcher as a better man than the American president is rewarded with a party's nomination to Congress does not tell you all you need to know about the morally twisted world of the Greens, nothing will.

It was, I believe, David Horowitz who first pointed out that with the death of communism, those who held communist views will morph from Reds to Greens -- "watermelons," he called them: green on the outside, red on the inside. Why worshippers of nature lose their moral bearings is a question for another column.

Thanks to Michael Berg, the country also better knows the warped moral universe of pacifists.

Pacifists are often personally sweet and endearing people who advocate "peace," and therefore their doctrine is usually spared the moral contempt it merits. Among its many moral and intellectual weaknesses, pacifism ensures that cruelty will prevail on earth. When asked by talk show host Michael Medved if he, Berg, would have killed Zarqawi as the terrorist was about to cut his son's throat, Berg said he would instead throw his body in front of the knife -- thereby ensuring, as Medved noted, that two innocent people would be murdered.

That is the consequence of pacifism -- far more cruelty and death. But the spread of evil apparently means little to pacifists. There must be some joy in feeling oneself so morally superior to those who believe that killing is sometimes morally necessary that even the ritual murder of one's son does not shake the pacifist's fanaticism.

The more Michael Berg speaks -- using the murder of his son, a Bush supporter and supporter of the war in Iraq, to publicize his views -- the better it is. Because every time Michael Berg speaks, he shines a needed light on the moral darkness of the Greens and of pacifism.

[weegee]

Michael Berg tried to draw an comparison between Zarqawi and President Bush on a number of programs last week.

Maybe someone has quotes of him saying that Bush was worse or even that it would've been a better day if Bush had perished instead of Zarqawi.

Berg was all over the media and so I can't remember exact quotes (I did listen to him for over 20 minutes on Michael Medved's radio show).

Michael Berg did not come across to me as a pacifist. He seemed like the sort who'd be happy with the death of the president.

[george76]

[libstripper]

Both Michael Berg and "Mother Cindy" supported the Islamofascist terrorists before those very terrorists murdered their sons. Thus, instead of having moral authority as bereaved parents, they directly shared in responsibility for their sons' murder.

[Dr. Thorne]

Exactly. Every left-wing nutcase hopes for such a tragedy in order the receive the mantle of "moral authority". Then they can play the grieving parent, spouse, etc. and get the media face time they crave to advance their crackpot philosophies.

Michael Berg would have been ignored by society and the media had his son not been murdered ...and he loves it! He has no moral authority, but his son's views do as he (Nick) died to assert them. Nick Berg may have been foolish to travel to Iraq, but his motivation to bring prosperity to the Iraqis was noble.

[finnman69]

Michael Berg could be beheaded and he would make just as much sense as he does now.

[pookie18]

[johnny7]

Mike Berg is a proud supporter of A.N.S.W.E.R. ... a front-group for the Marxist-Leninist World Workers Party.

[TNdandelion]

I've never found pacifists to be sweet or endearing. On the contrary, they are condescending, holier than thou, know-it-alls. To borrow a term from the liberals...a Fundie.

[Neophyte]

Rachel did not throw herself under. She got in the way and the dozer operator didn't see her.

Very fine difference. Unfortunately, the doser operator's sensor for idiots cannot distinguish between the two quickly and surely enough... otherwise, her useless life could be spared.