Posted on 12/11/2001 4:29:09 PM PST by MoJo2001
One email has really got me thinking. The best point of those who disagree with my earlier post on Walker/Spann is that Walker wasn't/isn't really a lefty. He's actually a right-wing religious zealot. Here's the case: "Maybe I missed something, but I am not sure how a religious fundamentalist and zealot like John Walker is an embodiment of the American Hating Left. He is a right wing religious nut just like the guy arrested here in Cincinnati last week for sending fake anthrax to abortion clinics. While you may be correct that his permissive parents and his multicultural context may have produced him (sounds like something some right wing nut case would say about homosexuality, right Andrew?), what it produced was a right wing Islamic religious nut who hates the West and America for its decadence (which he enjoyed and benefited from) and sin, just like his brothers on the right wing Christian extreme (like maybe Tim McVeigh, who was a Catholic to boot?). Let's at least be honest that Walker represents some of the worst of American permissiveness and multiculturalism, while being the embodiment of right wing religious fanaticism. I think we all get caught on this one." This strikes me as pretty smart. What it misses, though, is that Walker actually rebelled against Catholicism for being too strict when he was younger. I think he was attracted to Islam as much by its exoticism as by its strictures. I think we have a classic case of being brought up with really permissive parents in a really permissive culture. You want to rebel, but your authority figures approve of 'rebellion' so you have to find some sort of anti-liberal rebellion. Islam fits the bill perfectly. Hip-hop was a mite too predictable and you can imagine his parents almost approving. The extremism with which he pursued his rebellion is probably inexplicable out of psychoanalysis. But the link between his chosen lifestyle and the culture in which he was born is still valid, I think. - 12/11/2001 07:25:31 PM
Your opinion and $1.29 will get you a large McDonalds coffee.
People infer all the time. Reports in the press are what we have to go on. From these facts as presented in reports we make inferences. If you don't like it, tough.
BTW--how did you know by nickname is Sparky? I have never posted it here
It just fit.
Well, I didn't know that!
I'll try to keep that in mind!
Kind regards
....and from many dozens of print news sources, and from years of personal experience, and from research and sources of many dozens of individuals, and from radio broadcasts, and from television images, and ......
And thank you, I have an education that began 49 years ago and is still ongoing.
Oh, thats the problem. All the facts from 49 years ago are stale now. That's probably why you went with that ancient 'Moonie' smear vis-a-vis the Washington Times.
When did yours end?
I expect mine will end about 45 years from now, give or take a few decades. Thanks for asking!
Is there a difference? I mean, really?
And don't say it will cost you a diamond ring!
Tell you the truth, I inferred nothing. I was poking and prodding and mocking you. If you are not nicknamed Sparky, you should be, since it fits. If you are nicknamed Sparky, then it fits.
Now, if Bill Gertz from the Washington Times states that American Intelligence officials have evidence that you are nicknamed Sparky, I will infer that this is, in fact, the truth.
I believe you are a patient.
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