Learning to love terrorists

U.S. News ^ | 10/8/01 | John Leo

[duvausa]

"Oh...now the mainstream presses feels it can mention this?"

John Leo has been fighting this sort of thing for years.

[HiTech RedNeck]

FWIW it was a tragedy -- of our government falling down BIG TIME in its role of defending the people.

[Ban Draoi]

I wonder what these idiots are willing to tell their students to understand why Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell said the things that they did.

[workinggirl]

Not the students! Make those darn college profeesors go first! Draft them!

[workinggirl]

Did anybody also notice that CNN no longer uses the word "terrorists"? They call them "alleged hijackers"! Alleged, to me, means that we don't know for sure whether they indeed are the hijackers or not. How about that? I think they also call them "militants". Give me a break!

[eniapmot]

Here is an interesting article.

[iamnobetterthanunoruthanme]

yea, teachers and educators are sooooooooooooooo despicable, they're right up thier with pat robertson and jerry fallwell and unproductive idiotic statements like the one you posted. down with knowledge!!!!!!! up with ignorence!!!!!! down with introspection and free thought and expression!!! up with violence and condemnations!!!!! have you forgotten the people who taught you how to read and write, that have given you the ability to respond and post repulsive statements? watchout you guys, your age and intelligence is showing. p.s., JEAN S , the letter i sent you was ment for this "person". -a 23 year old college student at george mason university.

[eniapmot]

After the first WTC bombing authorities let the net fade away, and wasted weeks looking for Serbs and Sikhs, anyone but those "peace-loving Moslems".

[Long Cut]

OK, the feds (mostly because of Slick) dropped the ball bigtime, but the media and other elites (Hollywood) always use the word "tragedy" when referring to the WTC/Pentagon Massacre. This implies an accident, or an unpreventable event, rather than a deliberate act and therefore evil to be destroyed. If continued, such weasel words may dilute the nation's will and unity. At least that's my fear. It also simply offends me to my soul.

[eniapmot]

...darn college profeesors go first! Draft them!

LOL. I'm not sure that will do us much good.

[Long Cut]

Oh, calm down. You're ranting like a hysterical child.

[Let's Roll]

You're right, words - what we call things - are important. It was an atrocity.

[Snardius]

...darn college profeesors go first! Draft them!

LOL. I'm not sure that will do us much good.

There's always a task for the useful idiot.

[madison46]

There's always a task for the useful idiot

To clear the mines.

[Snardius]

And dig the latrines.

[Long Cut]

OK, the feds (mostly because of Slick) dropped the ball bigtime, but the media and other elites (Hollywood) always use the word "tragedy" when referring to the WTC/Pentagon Massacre. This implies an accident, or an unpreventable event, rather than a deliberate act and therefore evil to be destroyed. If continued, such weasel words may dilute the nation's will and unity. At least that's my fear. It also simply offends me to my soul.

[rebdov]

This is what I received from a college student in FRmail:

it's far from over, and i don't want to have them over for tea and crumpets, but i also don't want to kill thier children.

and, here's a newsflash, america and the world in general does have a disease, it's called hate and feelings of superiority over those who are different than you are. from that we need to heal and if we don't we will bring about our own destruction and for what, differing views?

- a college student

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I received the following from a "college student" who I will not name, but whose sign up date was Sept 29th, 2001. Here is what he wrote to me:

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, don't you think nuclear bombs, killing in the name of god,ideas of superiority and hate itself is a little more dangerous than toleration and understanding by students on campuses across the country? or maybe these pasive and non violent practices threaten you and the completely subjective reality in which YOU live in some way, maybe they threaten your "values and morals" that you want to push onto people who don't want them cause they already have thier own. the times, they are a changin-bd -a 23 year old college student @ -school deleted-

Here was my response:

I live in a completely subjective reality? You are an idiot. At least have the balls to post this crap publicly so that everyone can see the campus mentality of today. Two of the reasons I survived brainwashing at UNC was that I was a math/physics major and, when not studying serious material, I was having to much fun to actually attend the social "science" electives.

Although I doubt your mushy mind can handle it, I'll try to address the subject of the thread. Do you really think we are talking about "tolerance and understanding"? Am I supposed to tolerate the attack on the WTC? Am I supposed to understand why Osama Bin Laden wants to kill me, my friends, and my family? What we are talking about is the lack of tolerance and understanding for non-leftist ideas and thoughts within the walls of these universities. I know a conservative professor who objectively and conscientiously taught the political theory of Marx and Engels? Do you think any of the liberals taught Burke or Hayek?

I don't know about my "values and morals" being threatened and in need of protection? I do know that my family and friends LIVES are threatened? If push comes to shove, you probably don't want to be around when I protect them.

I actually thought about starting a thread on it. Maybe we should??

[dighton]

Maybe 90 percent of the [CSU Fresno] faculty sympathizes with boutique anti-Americanism, and 90 percent of students are firmly behind the goverment, with the strongest support coming from the Mexican-American kids.

Roy P. Benavidez bump.

[SunnyUsa]

"Growing up as a child and now as an adult, I hear a lot of people across the country refer to my father as the true Rambo," said Noel Benavidez, a 28-year-old Houston computer network engineer.

Thanks for that link about Benavidez

I had never heard about him till I read that thread!

True Americans don't stop and say " what race, what ethnicity, democrat or republican?"

We fight for each other and we value our FREEDOM above any "feel good" causes.....
and I hope there are men who can try and match this man!