Posted on 09/16/2007 12:43:14 AM PDT by yorkie
This year I marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 by driving through Massachusetts. It wasn't exactly planned that way, just the way things panned out. So, heading toward Boston, I tuned to Bay State radio talk-show colossus Howie Carr and heard him reading out portions from the official address to the 9/11 commemoration ceremony by Deval Patrick, who is apparently the governor of Massachusetts: 9/11, said Gov. Patrick, "was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States."
"Mean and nasty"? He sounds like an oversensitive waiter complaining that John Kerry's sent back the aubergine coulisagain. But evidently that's what passes for tough talk in Massachusetts these days – the shot heard around the world and so forth. Anyway, Gov. Patrick didn't want to leave the crowd with all that macho cowboy rhetoric ringing in their ears, so he moved on to the nub of his speech: 9/11, he continued, "was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other."
I was laughing so much I lost control of the wheel, and the guy in the next lane had to swerve rather dramatically. He flipped me the Universal Symbol of Human Understanding. I certainly understood him, though I'm not sure I could learn to love him. Anyway, I drove on to Boston and pondered the governor's remarks. He had made them, after all, before an audience of 9/11 families: Six years ago, two of the four planes took off from Logan Airport, and so citizens of Massachusetts ranked very high among the toll of victims. Whether any of the family members present Tuesday were offended by Gov. Patrick, no one cried "Shame!" or walked out on the ceremony. Americans are generally respectful of their political eminences....
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Great column. Thanks for posting it!
YW!
Everytime I see one of those “Coexist’ bumper stickers I want to see if the idiots pacifism is real by slapping some sense into them.
The terrorists understood us. We just didn’t understand them or their viciousness.
Outstanding! Once again, Steyn nails it. Thanks.
YW, Joe! If I were 100 years younger, I’d meh-wey him!
Here is a French saying that says it all:
Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner, mais tout pardonner, c’est tout embêter.
(To understand all is to forgive all, but to forgive all is to make everything unimportant (or stupid to use the literal translation)).
The terrorists ‘understand’ soft-headed liberal morons like Deval Patrick all too well..... they hope we’re all like that.
Fortunately, a lot of Americans have too much sense to regard babblers like Governor Patrick as anything but dangerous soporific appeasers.
You can't make this stuff up....
Unless you’re 116, they’d haul someone off in irons! (8^D)
“no one cried “Shame!” or walked out on the ceremony.”
There, in a nutshell, is the problem. Unless we shout them down when statements like this are made, they will continue - just as al Qaeda did in the 1990’s.
Silence is consent. Freedom of speech & turning the other cheek - no one ever said to stand there and let them slap you silly.
How about bumper sticks of our own like “Mohammed = Jim Jones” or “Bomb Tehran Now” or “This is our country - Assimilate”??
Me too. I saw a bumper sticker last week, it said ...
Frodo failed. Bush has the ring."
Regards
A bump for Mark Steyn and a kick in the rear end for Deval Patrick.
You’re only criticizing Deval Patrick because he’s African American, aren’t you? Racist!
;^)
Another great Mark Steyn column, thanks for posting.
Ping
Thanks! Deval Patrick is like a cross between Wally Cox
and Steve Urkel (Family Matters), only that would be
an insult to the late actor and the TV character...Patrick
is less macho than Cox and more nerdy than Urkel.
My sister has one. She is dumb as a stump, and a teacher.
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