We all heard this liberal leftist excuse for their ineptitude in understanding the threat that faces us. Here’s the common list from a useful idiot named Russell Shaw over at the Huffington Post.�
“Some critics may fail to realize that for millions of Americans, terrorism is a frequent presence. Not the terrorism of a shoe-bomber, or of trumped up orange alerts based on intercepts of guys shouting "Jihad" in an Internet chat room, but the real psychological and economic terrorism often visited on Americans in the guise of:”�
- The fourth call you have received this morning from the bill collector, who cares not that you have been put out of work by the greed of a multinational corporation who shipped your job overseas last year;
- The developers in suits who have just pulled up to your trailer park, and meeting with the owner about selling out- an action that will render you and your uninsured wife who has been laden with arthritis wife and two kids nowhere to go;
- The need to wait two hours for three buses to take you to work because the price-gougers in the oil markets have made it too expensive to put gas in your car until you get paid again in two weeks;
- The baby your niece will be forced to have after being impregnated by her no-good, meth-addled ex boyfriend because the only doctor who performed abortions within 200 miles has decided he doesn't want to be terrorized by the "pro-lifers" anymore;
- The moans from your cancer-ridden aunt in your upstairs guest bedroom- moans that the government won't let you palliate with medical marijuana or even mercifully cease should she be at peace with her God about that option;
- The letter from your health insurer, advising you about a hike in your policy (caused by unregulated prices on hospital care and pharmaceuticals) that may force you to decide between insurance and food;
- And sometimes, it is not only we humans who are victims of terrorism. The polar bear marooned on the ice floe due to global warming, the tiger who futilely scampers away from high-powered rifle fire at the game ranch owned by rich Republican contributors- well, they are victims of terrorism too.
But Mr. Shaw is not alone in his definitions of terrorism. CNN can’t bring itself to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization. And commentary such as this (The Real terrorist Assault on America is being committed by the Bush administration) is found continuously in the newspapers which are really attempts for the Dems to regain power.�
God help us if the Dems regain Congress in 04 and the White House in 06. This is how they will fight their war on terror.
2 comments:
Mr. Shaw doesn't simply conflate evil with terrorism, but also equates economic reality in his oil company price gouging example. (I doubt that the oil companies have gouged in any effective way at all, but if they did, their take from gouging was only a small percentage of the price. ) I suppose we should give him credit for mentioning one real example in the case of the abortion of the doctor. Interestingly enough, he used the word terrorize in that example, which shows he actually does know the difference between terrorism and other evils or facts about reality. It does no one good to attempt to confuse language as he has.
POLAR BEARS?!? It's my distinct impression that you can't "terrorize" a polar bear with anything short of an aircraft carrier.
Poor liberals, it must be so difficult expreiencing all of life's ups and downs as "terrorism" committed against them by someone or other. I've just been reading Brigitte Gabriel's book. I wonder what some of these limolibs would think of living for 7 years in a bomb shelter while being shot at every day. If they -- and we -- are very lucky, they will never find out.
Thank you, anonymous, for noting the one legitimate example in that laundry list. It has been difficult to have to bite my tongue on that subject in order to work towards preventing even worse hostility towards the rights of women in a Muslim-dominated future. But one must set priorities.
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