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Re: Lindsey Graham and the First Amendment (Mark Steyn)
National Review Online ^ | April 04, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/04/2011 11:44:02 AM PDT by neverdem

Andrew, ever since I ran into a spot of bother in Canada, I’ve found myself giving speeches in defense of freedom of expression in Toronto, London, Copenhagen, etc. I did not think it would be necessary quite so soon to take the same stand in the land of the First Amendment against craven squishes of the political class willing to trade core liberties for a quiet life. I have no expectations of Harry Reid or the New York Times, but I have nothing but total contempt for the wretched buffoon Graham.

A mob of deranged ululating blood-lusting head-hackers slaughter Norwegian female aid-workers and Nepalese guards — and we’re the ones with the problem?

I agree with the Instaprof: Lindsey Graham is unfit for office. The good news is there’s no need for the excitable lads of Mazar e-Sharif to chop his head off because he’s already walking around with nothing up there. And, as for his halfwitted analogy with World War II, he’s too ignorant to realize it but he’s singing the dhimmi remake of an ancient Noel Coward satire.

The reason we’re losing this thing is because of a lack of cultural confidence, of which the fetal cringe of this worthless husk out-parodies anything Coward could have concocted. When I’m speaking on this subject, I often get asked to reprise the words I quote in my book, from Gen. Sir Charles Napier in India explaining to the locals his position on suttee — the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Napier was impeccably multicultural:

You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.

In the absence of cultural confidence overseas, we are expending blood and treasure building an Afghanistan fit only for pederasts, tribal heroin cartels, and the blood-soaked savages of Mazar e-Sharif. In the absence of cultural confidence at home, we are sending the message that the bedrock principles of free, pluralist societies will bend and crumble in a vain race to keep up with the ever touchier sensitivities of the perpetually aggrieved. Claire Berlinski has it right: The real “racists” here are not this no-name pastor and his minimal flock but Reid, Graham, and the Times — for they assume that a significant proportion of Muslims are not responsible human beings but animals no more capable of rational behavior than the tiger who mauled Siegfried’s Roy. If that is true, certain consequences follow therefrom. The abandonment of the First Amendment is not one of them.

In Trafalgar Square, there is a statue of General Napier. I would urge any visitors to London to see it before it’s taken down, as it surely will be one day soon. Imagine what our world would look like if it were Lindsey Graham up on that plinth. A society led by such “men” cannot survive, and does not deserve to.


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To: neverdem

Post it again if you want to this is a good one.


21 posted on 04/04/2011 7:15:40 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: sauropod

mark


22 posted on 04/04/2011 7:16:23 PM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: Perdogg

Thank goodness for reposts or I would miss half of what is originally posted on FR. I work 8-5 i Pacific Time and seem to miss all the good stuff. The later reposts are a godsend to me. I’m glad for reposts.


23 posted on 04/04/2011 7:59:57 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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To: Perdogg

I think we have fought the Muslims wrong. Yes, we should win hearts and minds, but we should still bury every dead Muslim combatant in pigskin. Seriously. We should show them we mean business.


24 posted on 04/04/2011 8:01:02 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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To: neverdem

Let me add to the chorus of thanks: I’d’ve hated to miss this.


25 posted on 04/04/2011 8:51:48 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: neverdem

Our Supreme Court just upheld the right of a whacko church to picket the funerals of our veterans and, if that’s ok, how can it not be legal for another whacko church to burn religious books?


26 posted on 04/04/2011 8:55:02 PM PDT by Walts Ice Pick
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To: JLS

Add me to your ping list, pretty please???? (in my best Southern female drawl—despite my screen name, I live in Arkansas, lol)


27 posted on 04/04/2011 8:56:52 PM PDT by Hoosier Catholic Momma (Change everything you are, everything you were, your number has been called.)
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To: neverdem

After Steyn zaps someone, all that remains is a smoking pile of ash.


28 posted on 04/04/2011 8:57:04 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

“we should still bury every dead Muslim combatant in pigskin”

After draining the pig blood, doing the infusion and stuffing them with their little piggy guts, you mean?

Yeah. That would work.


29 posted on 04/04/2011 9:16:47 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Perdogg
Let me add to the chorus of thanks: I’d’ve hated to miss this.

LOL! Sometimes I repost deliberately because I think it needs reposting. It's that good. This time the search of the whole title missed it. Other times I find that the first time it was posted it was posted as an incomplete article, i.e. it wasn't excerpted, but final paragraphs were missing! Go figure.

30 posted on 04/04/2011 11:30:52 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem
I did not think it would be necessary quite so soon to take the same stand in the land of the First Amendment against craven squishes of the political class willing to trade core liberties for a quiet life.

Lindsey Graham is a craven squish. I love it! And yes, he is unfit for office.

31 posted on 04/04/2011 11:53:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: neverdem
In Trafalgar Square, there is a statue of General Napier. I would urge any visitors to London to see it before it’s taken down, as it surely will be one day soon. Imagine what our world would look like if it were Lindsey Graham up on that plinth. A society led by such “men” cannot survive, and does not deserve to.
32 posted on 04/04/2011 11:55:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Perdogg

Needs to be posted again and again and again and again... ad infinitum....


33 posted on 04/04/2011 11:58:21 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Agree!!! Love the re-posts!!


34 posted on 04/05/2011 12:01:26 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: neverdem
Graham said: "I wish we could find some way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war. During World War II, you had limits on what you could do if it inspired the enemy."

Democrats have inspired the enemy at every step. Murtha and Kerry's comments for example.

35 posted on 04/05/2011 12:31:12 AM PDT by anglian
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To: Perdogg

It should be posted until every American has had a chance to read this powerful statement from Mark Steyn.

What are our military forces and the “Norwegian female aid-workers and Nepalese guards” trying to do with that God-forsaken country. Ten years was a sufficient trial. Now we should leave them to their own tribal fate.


36 posted on 04/05/2011 4:43:37 AM PDT by maica ( It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.)
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To: neverdem
I will Stand with Rev. Jones
37 posted on 04/05/2011 5:54:46 AM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: jessduntno

That works for me.

The point is, we should use every weapon in our arsenal to strike fear into them and make them hesitate to fight us. We don’t do that anymore. Now we have an army of lawyers chasing our soldiers around and prosecuting them for shooting first. I never thought I would live to see the day that the socialists damaged our military this way.


38 posted on 04/05/2011 9:51:03 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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To: FreedomPoster

I agree with Steyn.


39 posted on 04/05/2011 11:09:30 AM PDT by kabar
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To: expatguy

Thanks for the link.


40 posted on 04/05/2011 9:47:32 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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