What happened to the America we believed in as children? (Liberally brainwashed alert)

The Hoya (Georgetown U.) ^ | 12/27/02 | Shadi Hamid

[Intimidator]

America is waking up, thats what happened you hippie pinko commie.

[johniegrad]

Everyday, I hear an Evangelical leader (Fallwell, Robertson, Graham, etc.) saying my religion is intrinsically evil and that we as Muslims don't belong in this country.

So what? Have you been prevented from worshipping in the mosque of your choice? Has the government attempted to send you out of this country? Have you been arrested without cause?

How do people equate others expressing their view with their being victimized? Do they expect to protected from people saying things they find offensive? Perhaps he believes the government should stop others from expressing opinions that he finds offensive. What about us who find his views and his religion offensive?

[Paul Atreides]

Then, the Republicans took over Congress in what was a humiliating defeat for the Democrats. It was a scary thought: Bush at the helm with majorities in both houses. And in the next couple years, Bush will have the chance to appoint a right-wing fundamentalist judiciary.

No; the Republicans were ELECTED to Congress. They didn't take over.

If you're that worried about the state of this nation, move to Iraq.

[johniegrad]

"expect to be protected"

[clintonh8r]

Yo, Shadi! You're more than welcome to go back to the land of your father's birth. I'm sure things are much better there. Seems like everybody's trying to get into Egypt these days...

[netmilsmom]

If so much of the world thinks so badly of America, why are they all fighting to get here?
And how would I be treated, as a Christian in Egypt? With the same freedoms? I think not.
Move to your homeland and be happy.

[dirtboy]

The American dream is becoming a nightmare for too many -- for the over 40 million Americans without health insurance, for the forgotten minorities in the inner cities, for the American Muslims who are being harassed, persecuted and even jailed by Ashcroft and the Department of Injustice.

This is the kind of incoherent nonsense you get when you load a hodgepodge of liberal ideas into a blender and hit Frappe...

[Bob]

Somebody ought to give this guy a little cheese to go with that whine.

[dirtboy]

Everyday I hear about another Muslim whose civil rights are violated. Big Brother is back and in demand.

Dear Shadi: If you really, truly want to experience genuine civil rights violations, go back to your home country and publish a letter in the paper that criticizes the president there.

[vikingchick]

Just the other day, I was listening to "Imagine" by John Lennon. Please no, don't quote from Imagine. Anything but that!

[HumanaeVitae]

The America I knew as a child didn't have Marilyn Manson, Eminem, movies like "Natural Born Killers", TV shows like "Queer as Folk". Yeah, what indeed happened to the America I knew as a child? And I was born in the '70s...

[trebb]

"Shadi Hamid" - I wonder how far back his American roots go? The America I grew up in, and the one my father came from, called bad bad, good good and lousy but legal...well you get the idea. People were accountable and that's what made the nation great. I wonder where the America I remember went too - why do we put up with all this nonsense?

[niteowl77]

Well, that takes care of my minimum daily requirement of complaining by an anti-American college student with an Islamic chip on his shoulder. His ludicrous use of manufactured nostalgia makes it more pathetically phony than the usual dosage.

[Flyer]

he came because America was the land of hope, the land of opportunity and the place where dreams could come true with hard work and a bit of luck.

Yeah, and when you get out of school and see the real world you'll find it's still true.

Lather brain. Wash. Repeat.

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Houston Area Texans

[PGalt]

Shadi your thinking is shoddy. You have life, live it. You have liberty, enjoy it. It's your pursuit of unhappiness, that has created the problems with your thought process.

[Timesink]

I feel nothing but gleeful Schadenfreude for anyone so pathetic that they have breakdowns over mere partisan political losses.

[Cincinatus]

One of the last great men in the senate, ....part of a dying breed -- a politician who stood by his beliefs no matter what the cost.

Yeah, I miss Jesse Helms too.

[Shermy]

Just the other day, I was listening to "Imagine" by John Lennon. Perhaps it was lucky for Lennon that he didn't live to see the unfettered materialism and excess of the '80s. (Blah blah)... It's sad. Lennon had a dream of a just world. And look how far we've gone from that dream.

Obviously this fellow is to muddled to listen to the actual lyrics of "Imagine."

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

If Lennon were alive today, I'd "imagine" that he would blame religion for the current crisis (which would only be stating the obvious at any level), not "America", the country he adopted.

[Paul Atreides]

To use a Dune analogy, liberals are like the Sardaukar (who were so used to always winning every battle) after they were defeated by the Fremen: demoralized!