Terrorism Is a 'Man-Caused' Disaster? (Oh Brother!)

FOX News ^ | 3/17/2009 | Bret Baier

[FMBass]

“I referred to “man-caused” disasters”

I find that term sexist.

[CASchack]

If there is a wave of attacks, this country likely will devolve into anarchy under Obama. He cannot handle a true crisis. He’ll be worse than Clinton was when it comes to making a real decision.

[Condor51]

Terrorism Is a 'Man-Caused' Disaster?

uh... Not exactly Janet.
Now my cousin's MIL's Meatloaf - THAT was a 'Man Caused' disaster.

(she was a great lady just couldn't cook a meatloaf)

[do the dhue]

Yea, and when we catch them they will go to a anger management therapist instead of Gitmo.

[Tennessee_Bob]

an illegal immigrant an ILLEGAL immigrant

I wonder if I could persuade you to change that. Not the illegal part, but the immigrant part. They're not immigrants. They're aliens. The difference is important. An alien is defined as:
1 a: belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : strange b: relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government : foreign c: exotic 1 2: differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility

We're not dealing with immigrants - who by nature of the word desire to become part of the culture they're moving into - we're dealing with aliens - who have no desire to become part of the culture, but who do desire to over run the culture that's present, and remake it for themselves.

[Darwin Fish]

Why not call it “Fluffy Marshmallows” instead?

[Canedawg]

“I wonder if I could persuade you to change that... They’re not immigrants. They’re aliens.”
***

So it shall be done.

[MrB]

“Calling a spade a spade” is just “monkey see, monkey do”...

:0 !!! That’s racist!!!

Seriously, calling illegal aliens “undocumented workers” is like calling a rapist an “undocumented boyfriend”.

[woollyone]

The change in terminology strikes me with a couple of thoughts...

1- the term is very Orwellian in nature and denies the essence of a terrorist's motive; to inflict terror, as he cannot muster enough physical strength to actually conquer his opponent. In this view it seems like just another PC (pick up the poop by the clean end) term to help us all embrace our diiiveeeersssity and excuse the hate of our enemies, while painting us all as the true haters. This thinking makes my head hurt.

2- the term may be an attempt to pre-label other activities, such as the coming protests against our government's actions, taxation, wealth confiscation and redistribution. Should a group ever try to rise up in force against our government, the fedgov will be unable to call these self-proclaimed patriots “terrorists”, lest they only fuel the protests or uprising with even more popular support. So, by creating this pre-label, the patriots can be called, not an evil name, rather, mere “instigators of man-caused disasters”. Then the full force needed to crush dissent would be excused as preventing such a “disaster”. And the leftists would cheer the oppression.

When “global warming” was shown to be a farce by so many scientists that critical mass was achieved in finally putting the matter to a shameful end, the leftists changed the terms to “climate change”- what, for centuries has been commonly known as “weather” now became an evil man-caused disaster. So it is now. I believe it is a preemptive attempt to re-label the actions of patriots and subtly equate them to the level of terrorists. When the redefinitions are complete, those who would oppress us will use this new term to rationalize all sorts of evil.

Never allow your enemy to define the terms, or you will always lose the debate. Cases in point...abortion is now "choice"...homosexuality is now "gay", "a lifestyle choice"...using elephant poop to paint a picture of the virgin Mary, or a crucifix in an urn of urin is called "an expression of art"...and so forth.

This redefinition of a terrorist is a foreshadow of evil thigns to come.
...IMHO

[Canedawg]

Yes, I’m a racist.

However, my new definition of “racist” is “one who speaks the truth”, not one who is prejudiced and disciminates based on prejudice.

Get with the program!

[MrB]

Definitely.

Truth really makes leftists mad.

It’s how you can tell you’ve spoken the truth - if a leftist gets mad.

Here’s a recent one that I’ve found that really convicts leftist apostate “Christians”:

God’s moral laws and their consequences are as immutable as His physical laws.

[DeLaine]

Someone please explain to me how that not mentioning terrorism is “it demonstrating that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”

Cause I’m missing something ,I don’t get it at all.

[spodefly]

There is no greater evidence of a “man-caused disaster” than the Obama Administration.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

I charge you with the task of posting your well thought out statement each and every day of the year.
You are so correct that I am personally ashamed that I have never put my thoughts into YOUR words. These people are NOT immigrants.
I grew up in a world of immigrants...people who turned their backs on a world that had condemned them to a miserable life, full of want, fear, and persecution. They came to America to become AMERICANS, and they did just that. Their children were to be educated in ENGLISH, steeped in the glories of AMERICAN history and in the end became AMERICANS.
Cultural mores, foods, religious festivals and even some good memories were cherished and incorporated into life in AMERICA, but the people were AMERICANS, firs and only.
I remember people who spoke with accents thick enough to cut, but people who when they spoke of America, spoke of “MY COUNTRY”.
This is what is lacking today.

[Lucky Dog]

Someone please explain to me how...

This case is a perfect example of the nefarious intrusion of Political Correctness. The goal of PC is rob people of the ability to think critically.

Words are symbols for concepts. Humans logically manipulate these symbols with syntax and grammar (i.e., language) to be able to describe reality and predict outcomes of proposed actions.

During the last century, the left came to the realization that the ordinary citizen would never adopt the tenants of socialism if presented with these in an “unvarnished and truthful” manner. Consequently, they schemed to obscure these tenants with meaningless terms.

Of course, the Left knew the answer to the old question about “how to eat an elephant…” “one bite at a time.” Therefore, they incrementally began to seize control of the language. At first, they masqueraded their language seizure as avoiding hurting someone’s feelings: “physically challenged” instead of “handicapped,” “hearing impaired” instead of “deaf,” etc. After all, who can complain about being “kind?”

Incrementally the language seizure and obfuscation continued with “gay” for “queer” and “choice” for “abortion,” etc. Substituting man-caused-disaster for terrorism is just another incremental step in the attempt to control people’s thought processes.

By destroying precise meanings and referents of the symbols of thinking (words) the left can defeat the ordinary citizen’s ability to accurately discern the true reality of socialism. Furthermore, when that occurs, the ability to reasonably predict socialism’s disastrous and inevitable outcomes with logic (i.e., mentally manipulating symbols) is impaired as well. Such a situation is just another step in the left’s planned march to totalitarian Marxist domination.

[SunkenCiv]

Napolitano tells the German news site Spiegel Online that while she presumes there is always a threat from terrorism: "I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."

"Man-caused"? That's sexist. "Human-caused" is the correct term. Used in a sentence, "the 2008 election of Obama to the presidency was a human-caused disaster."

[SuperLuminal]

Yep! Was posted already....but serious enough that it needs to be re-posted a couple of times.