Posted on 03/04/2008 10:38:32 AM PST by smoothsailing
March 04, 2008
Obama: Arab-American Families Being Rounded Up?
By Lance Fairchok
"If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, it is that fundamental belief that makes this country work." - Senator Barack Obama
In a televised twelve-second campaign spot aired in Texas, Senator Obama gives a stirring speech to a standing ovation. It is the predictable litany of American faults he will miraculously correct: literacy, expensive prescription drugs and insufficient civil liberties. However, he seems particularly concerned for Arab-Americans. "If there is an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties."
This was an astonishing statement, an infuriating statement and a statement that speaks volumes to Obama's ideology.
Arab-American families being rounded up would not only threaten all our civil liberties, it would raise such a universal outcry, it could not long endure. Even the suggestion it could occur is a profound insult to our nation and our citizenry. It is an image of the gulag, the death camp, the dictatorship, and so inappropriate in any discussion about America, it is beneath our contempt.
Perhaps the Senator is carried away by his remarkable political ascendancy and so emboldened by the lack of critical comment in the press, he believes he can say anything. Perhaps he believes he has so mesmerized us with his oratory that we will not catch the inference of his words. Perhaps he really believes that we are that kind of country, that our people do not cherish civil liberty sufficiently to defend it for all citizens.
This despicable image of innocent families imprisoned and the ethnic cleansing it suggests is a theme the radical left nurtures. It is by design intended to portray an unjust and intolerant people, it was no error, no misstatement. It elicits moral outrage with false assumptions, endlessly repeating those assumptions until believed. It is behind the exaggeration of everything the U.S. does in the war on terror or against Islamic extremism. It is behind the hysteria over the Patriot Act.
As divorced from truth as it is, it is found everywhere in the propaganda of the left, from the Bush-Hitler signs, to the fabrications of American military wrongdoing in the press, to the invented Islamophobia in our populace. It is the motivation behind Michael Moore, Code Pink, MoveOn.Org and George Soros. It is unfortunately the message the media aids and abets.
This moral contrariness gives us American "progressives" embracing dictators and terrorists such as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Iran's Ahmedinejhad and Syria's Bashar al Assad. It finds equivalence between defending America and Al Qaeda and Hezbollah terrorism. It believes malevolent evil can actually be stopped with dialogue and compromise. It gravitates to a miserable "better red than dead" nihilism that allows no pride or faith in America. It excuses our enemies and indicts everything American. It is the impenitent legacy of the Carter and Clinton administrations. It is illogical and irrational and a road to failure and catastrophe.
"I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, it is that fundamental belief that makes this country work." Yet, he also says that our country does not work, that we need change. Even as he wraps this contradiction in biblical allusion and positive words like "Hope" and "Change We Can Believe In" his underlying belief system surfaces in clues overlooked by his handlers.
The bleak fantasy of Arab-American families interned for being Arabs and, of course, for being Muslim is very plausible to the radicals that help write his speeches. Senator Obama holds a wretched America in his heart, a country he has no pride in nor wishes to preserve. If his vision starts from failure, where will it end? There is no truth in his words, just as there is no substance. One may speak well, but still speak lies. An Obama presidency would be a disaster.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. - Cicero
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Ding ding ding, we have a winner! An inept Islamist at that - showed his cards way too early.
This is te year of the Manchurian candidates: Obama is running as an American Christian, but is really an Islamist. Hillary is running as an American Democrat, but is really a, well, Chinese Manchurian socialist. And McCain is running as an American Republican, but is really an American Democrat.
The last choice is bad, but at least its American...
BTTT
He mentions it because it is an easily-internalized outrageous notion. That he said it will be presumptive evidence to many that it did/is/will happen, at which point those many will demand something be done about it, and put him in power to do so.
The day I see his baptismal certificate is the day I believe Obama is Christian. Even then I will demand verification authentication on the baptism
Until then Obama was born Muslim and is Muslim and took Koran classes is Arabic in Indonesia which was not that common.
The trouble with hypotheticals is that all kinds of hateful things are possible under the cloak of rhetorical protection:
If there is a stealth radical muslim, one of millions who daily threaten to destroy us, whose first name is "bearer of muhamed (buraq)" and whose middle name honors a murderous dictator hanged for crimes against humanity (Hussein), and he is running for president of the United States of America, it doesn't take much intellectual horsepower to see that it is a profound contradiction, and the certain road to oblivion.
I personally feel totally dedicated to the task of unmasking him, and making sure that his ilk is eradicated from the face of the earth.
The trouble with the word "if" is that anything that immediately follows can almost always be assumed to be false.
Cute weasel statement. Are you running for president too?
Name one. Just one such "family".
But of course, do not include all those who were here illegaly; who were here ostensibly to attend school, but never went to classes; who spent their time here as "guests" recruiting for terrorism camps, of collecting funds to aid foreign (or domestic) terrorists...
Just give us the name of one family, who doesn't fall into one of those categories.
Not yet, but keep talking Mr. Obama.
Many were detained and released and some were deported for immigration violations. Why the shock at ethnic profiling?
There was a hotel in Boston that was raided and the detainees released and I recall that plane passengers were detained in NYC that were released.
There may have been lawsuits, I don’t know - or care.
The government is not rounding up and expelling people who have overwhelmingly admitted that they favor terrorism, and who prove it by their donations to terrorist-front causes, and who sponsor dens of hate and indoctrination, and who hate this country.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to
prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that
seemed delightfully uncalculated [...], Mr. Obama described the
call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at
sunset."
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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And, it must be noted, something that is greatly desired by certain FReepers, as well.
Even given the unlikelihood of the event, Obama and his speechwriters at least have the advantage of being against it.
What excuse do our FReeper friends offer for what they recommend?
You muslims don't believe in names? Or do you just assume they are all named "mohamed?"
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