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America’s Killing Sprees Define Who We Are As A People (An Investigative Commentary)
Berkeley Daily Planet ^
| 5/4/11
| Gar Smith
Posted on 05/05/2011 10:53:11 AM PDT by SmithL
When President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, his demeanor was properly restrained. It is hard to imagine George W. Bush issuing a similar pronouncement without cracking a grin and making a disparaging remark. The killing of bin Laden, Obama reflected, said much about America: We will be true to the values that make us who we are.
Sadly, the media showed too many Americans greeting the news of bin Ladens death with fist-pumping elation. Raucous, shouting mobs gathered outside the White House and at New Yorks Ground Zero to wave US flags and chant USA! USA! as if the cold-blooded execution of an unarmed man in a Pakistan suburb was somehow on par with winning the Superbowl.
These public demonstrations also served to tell the world something about who we are as a people. (Note: The assault was carried out by highly trained Navy SEALs. Had Hellfire missiles been used, the attack on bin Ladens compound would likely have killed many of the women and 23 children reportedly living inside.)
Bin Ladens demise is clearly one of the biggest news stories of the year. But as it continues to play out over the next few weeks dominating the print media and broadcast news there are other stories that will be ignored. Here are a few stories the White House will be happy to see lost in the Fog of Media.
(Excerpt) Read more at berkeleydailyplanet.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assclownery; berkeley; beserkeley; leftist; terrorlovers
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To: SmithL
May 5, 2011 ... Gar Smith is the co-founder of Environmentalists Against War and the winner of multiple ... DECLARATION: NO MUSLIMS PROVEN INVOLVED IN 9/11
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:18:09 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: SmithL
Journalistic excrement from a leftist POS.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:20:04 AM PDT
by
Spok
To: Dogbert41
no way, The Dems will always have power because they have the biased media working for them. There is no way the left will be finished at all. Think about it, they have the media, press, lawyers. Most judges, schools and colleges , especially the latter, shrinks, social services, most of wall street who gives them money They have the money and the likes of Soros, Buffett, Hollywood. Therefore they have the information, they have the laws, they have the kids to brainwash, they have the weak minded, money, corporations, The left will always have power due to what they have infiltrated, hell they have infiltrated this site, churches, military now, the only ting they did not get was the boy scouts for crying out loud. so not sure where you think the left are finished
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:24:13 AM PDT
by
manc
(Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
To: SmithL
With apologies to the Rolling Stones, this is little more than sympathy for the devil.
And none for his victims ...
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:25:57 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: manc
Yes you left wing loon trolls, check your facts wall street and the corporations give more to the left , go on trolls instead of slagging this post down go and check your facts.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:26:16 AM PDT
by
manc
(Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: SmithL
From the Berkeley Daily Planet...
I knew right away that it sure wasn’t Earth!
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:31:12 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
To: SmithL
Too bad the Berkeley Daily Planet can’t recognize a rent-a-mob when they see one.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:44:08 AM PDT
by
chainsaw
("The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.")
To: blueunicorn6
I don't think there is a paper version of the Daily Planet anymore. It's too hard to get real advertisers for this kind of stuff, so they shut down the printing press and went online only.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:58:28 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(No one puts the func in dysfunctional like the California Legislature)
To: SmithL
I sincerely hope that the next Islamist (political Islam, Sharia Law advocates) attack takes out a bunch of these clowns. Many say it's not if it's when.
The final split second of life for these aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue just may be enough time for them to realize that they can no longer admire those who kill Americans and they did not live long enough to "Bring it all down, man."
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posted on
05/05/2011 12:20:20 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: SmithL
Now I know which planet the Leftards come from!
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posted on
05/05/2011 12:51:57 PM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
To: SmithL
News from the Middle East (SEPT 12-01) -Sadly, the islamic media showed too many muslims greeting the news of the death of 3000 innocent unarmed Americans without fist-pumping elation. Mostly there were raucous, shouting mobs gathered outside the mosques. Some people were quiet and restrained, as if the cold-blooded execution of 3000 unarmed people in New York was no cause to celebrate.
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05/05/2011 12:57:28 PM PDT
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PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
To: kcvl
Why isnt this guy looked up and consuming gallons thorazine every day?
Bring the butterfly net!
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posted on
05/05/2011 1:09:18 PM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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